Planning a long-ish trip to south of Spain and Portugal this spring.
Have some free time today, so looking at putting down some route options, starting with the leg down to Barcelona.
Considering doing this fairly direct in a couple of days, starting from about 50/70km south of Calais.
In 2019 I did the same route, coming up, at the end of a Pyrenees trip.
The first leg of the journey (pink and red tracks in the Basecamp screenshot below) was extremely pleasant and fun to ride. Second day was the usual direct motorway route to London from Dijon.
Considering I've done the Dijon to London bit about a million times between car and motorbike in the last few years, I'd consider an alternative if anyone has suggestions.
Happy to spend the first day putting miles on a motorway and get off it when roads are slightly more interesting (roads still fast enough to get the distance over the day, but that's what N roads are in France
).
Had a go in MRA (I'm finally getting the hang of it) plotting a route getting off the motorway after Troyes, as I usually do, and joining part of the route done in 2019.
Seems doable in a couple of days, maybe stopping around Clermont Ferrand on the first day and then following up on slightly more windy routes on the second day, and rejoining the motorway towards the second part of the day for a more direct route to destination.
Out of curiosity, I was wondering if there any suggestions passing west of Paris, or coming from Calais is too much of a faff, not worth it?
I'd avoid ending to close to Paris/periferique purely for journey times' sake.
I've done the west part of France by car only.
Thanks.
PS: is it me or the MRA embed widget does not work?
Have some free time today, so looking at putting down some route options, starting with the leg down to Barcelona.
Considering doing this fairly direct in a couple of days, starting from about 50/70km south of Calais.
In 2019 I did the same route, coming up, at the end of a Pyrenees trip.
The first leg of the journey (pink and red tracks in the Basecamp screenshot below) was extremely pleasant and fun to ride. Second day was the usual direct motorway route to London from Dijon.
Considering I've done the Dijon to London bit about a million times between car and motorbike in the last few years, I'd consider an alternative if anyone has suggestions.
Happy to spend the first day putting miles on a motorway and get off it when roads are slightly more interesting (roads still fast enough to get the distance over the day, but that's what N roads are in France
).Had a go in MRA (I'm finally getting the hang of it) plotting a route getting off the motorway after Troyes, as I usually do, and joining part of the route done in 2019.
Seems doable in a couple of days, maybe stopping around Clermont Ferrand on the first day and then following up on slightly more windy routes on the second day, and rejoining the motorway towards the second part of the day for a more direct route to destination.
Out of curiosity, I was wondering if there any suggestions passing west of Paris, or coming from Calais is too much of a faff, not worth it?
I'd avoid ending to close to Paris/periferique purely for journey times' sake.
I've done the west part of France by car only.
Thanks.
PS: is it me or the MRA embed widget does not work?
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You can pick your route back up at Mende
