To Toll or not to Toll!
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I'm sure this is one of the prime differences between motorhome touring and caravan holidaying....
i know that AD has mentioned changing his crossing plans (to use the Santander or Bilbao one) due to the lack of decent night halts for caravanners.
for those who can pretty much stop anywhere (and have time in their hands) dribbling about and visiting several small towns along any journey serves two purposes....breaks up the chore/driving part of the holiday and adds interesting stops to the itinerary.....sometimes it's just a lunch stop, sometimes an overnighter, sometimes a few days depending on the level of interest.
in one four month tour we pulled into a site expecting week maximum, ended up for nine weeks....
with the type of touring described above, in good weather we don't need tolls....however, for our winter dash to the sun, two overnighters will be sufficient to reach the costas....and there will be at least one stretch of toll road....
so, horses for courses, with mode of transport, time and weather being influencers....
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We're going down through France in May, though not planning on including Spain. We've not been to that region before, but intend to look around some of Dordogne/Lot/further into that southern border area, Aude, etc, depending partly on what the weather's doing. So Perigueux (just how many ueueueue's can you get into one placename?!) has been one sort of navigational gateway reference point for the area, without any specific plans until we get there.
Is it truly an "avoid" sort of place, then? Is this due to maze-like qualities, or narrow streets, or heavy traffic, or what?
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Just no N. to S. by pass - you drive (well, we drive) through the middle of the city.
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And is that a pain, or reasonably picturesque, or ... ?
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With a caravan on the back you'll be so busy looking at the one-way system, the traffic lights, the junctions, the barriers, the bollards, the cyclists, the old people, and the arrows, and you won't notice if you're passing the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, and the Sidney Harbour Bridge! You'll just be glad you got through it!
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