Foreign Perspectives

It’s actually fairly doable these days although it’s a very, very long day and you need to pace yourself.

Just a few years ago there was really only the one viable route which was by way of Lyon and ended up in the Cote d’Azur which goes some way to explain the extremely high property prices over there. However, there are now two more routes that are quite doable.

The simplest is by way of the A75 which runs right down the middle of France and is tollfree apart from one bridge. The level of traffic on this route is almost always relatively light.

However, the advent of GPS creates an entirely new route or rather series of routes as the various GPS devices don’t produce the same route. One major downside with this is that the routes recommended are generally along minor roads and on peak days those roads just aren’t up to the volume of traffic that they get these days.

How long does it take? Well, our latest guests started at 3am and arrived at 8pm which wasn’t too bad really.