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[quote user="taff"] Thanks very much for your reply. We are looking to do something similar  [/quote] Very jealous! I want to go back! I would however avaoid the north central part, apart from Le Mans. It is very samey, Beaune is good for wine but touristy. Our favourites places were south. You can get the same countryside etc ...

Not sure why the wine and cheese line is bigger than the rest ... 

Hopefully you will enjoy it in the Kuga too - certainly didn't see any of those when we were there so you should get a few looks! Packing tips ... we packed too much   Apologies if this is too much detail ...  Most important is a range of hot and cold clothing - we were wearing both, it rose to around 29 degrees C on the south ...

Ok so the map didn't work but hopefully cutting and pasting the link will ... ?!

Hi Taff, we weren't really keeping track on mileage per day, some were much longer days than others but we were there from 3rd to the 16th May starting from Cherbourg. My husband has produced a map ... hope this works as haven't posted a map before! Total mileage was about 2,600 in the ...

Thank you for your comments, home today, last night in St Leonard Des Bois The Touring Hotel. Yesterday we went to Le Mans and took the obligatory photos Had we had a Le Mans 5 maybe they would have let us onto the track !!  

Fingers crossed for the passes for you - if we had known we would have delayed the trip, oh well just means we have to come back!!

My husband has just mentioned, we got very used to seeing the road sings in French and they are pretty self explanatory ... however when we crossed over to Italy as we were not planning to do we didn't have much of an idea what the signs said! I'm sure as your plan is to go into Italy and Switzerland then you have done it already but I ...

Biggest thing we have learnt is the 'cols' or mountain passes over around 1,800 metres high are usually closed due to snow up to 1st June which is when they aim to have them cleared - we had planned cutting across the mountains to get from the south coast to Valloire however ended up driving a full 12 hours detour into Italy around the ...

We are coming to the end of a trip around France so I wanted to share some of our piccies. We got the freey to Cherbourg and I am now writing this in Orleans after dropping down the west coast, along the south coast and popping up into the Alps and Italy through the tunnel back into France, 2,500 miles and counting, both myself and the 5 have ...