Millau to Sarlat Caravan Route
ViaMichelin offers three routes from Millau to Sarlat. Some parts of these look a bit hairy. Anyone done this trip and if so can you recommend a route that won't raise my pulse rate and blood pressure too much please?
Many thanks!
Peter Cartlefge
Comments
-
I've had a quick look at Viamichelin and we have done all three of the alternative routes - though the Albi one we did in reverse, from Millau to Albi, and we've also done the other leg on the way from Albi back to the A20! We've done the route via Martel once from Sarlat itself, but many times from the A20 south of Brive. I think the most hair-raising section is from Sarlat back to the A20 because the road is a bit tortuous and the surface not that good..
Actually, towing, there are no problems with any of them - or none that we experienced. We stored our caravan near Chateauroux until last year, and Millau, the Tarn and the Languedoc were our favourite areas, so we 'regularly' used the route via Martel, from the A20 down to Rodez and then Millau. We've also done the route via Villefranche de Rouergue lots of time, because we like to stop off on market day in Villefranche. With either of those routes, take the opportunity to stop off at the bakery/cafe in Flavin for some delicious quiches and their artisan bread! We still do that route, when on our way back to our house in the Aude, just because we like driving it!
Having read Eurotraveller's route, we have done that one too! Cross-country from Figeac on the D802 and then via Montfaucon (nice site nearby Domaine de la Faurie).
If you have any worries about a particular section come back to me
0 -
Use my route instead of Michelin !
From Millau north on the A75 motorway to junction 42, then via Rodez , Decazeville and the Figeac by pass, then via the D802 (but slowly over the speed humps in Cambes village) to join the A20 motorway at junction 56, and north on that motorway to leave it at junction 55 for Sarlat.
i have been that way many times and it is not scary until the last approach to Sarlat as Val mentions.
0 -
I can't say that we found the D704 from Souilliac to Sarlat particularly hazardous. It seemed fairly straightforward when we did it last year. If by any chance you're heading off this road before Sarlat, ie if going to Domme, then don't, not with a caravan anyway. The road near Montfort is a bit hairy. Stay on until Sarlat.
Can't see anything wrong with any of the above suggestions for choices of routes.
0
