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[bigrob]

afternoon,

 

this summer, i'm driving down to Millau, turns out i'm taking the mini.

 

Now, instead of doing 750 miles on the motorway, i'm feeling turning it into a bit of a road trip.

 

So i need your recommendations on good things to see around France and any great driving roads i need to take the mini down :)

 

thanks guys :)

[RobG1909]

After the Millau bridge you can head into Andorra for some fantastic mountain roads.

 

Alternative is head towards Marseille and the coast roads towards Monaco.

[bigrob]

i didnt even think of andorra! or andorra and follow the coast roads up from there

[Artful Dodger]

Andorra is quality! We have a house down there an I promise you the road from quillan (town in France where our house is) to Andorra via aix le thermes is the best road ever. 1hour continuous driving road and is FANTASTIC. Tour de France use it


Quillan is the best mountain town by far, and Andorra alcohol is well cheap;)

[bigrob]

yeah sounds great! looking at it on the net the roads look fantastic. i'll be staying in le rozier on thw gorge du tarne, And the roads around there are fantastic too

[M30]

The Massif Central region around Millau has dozens (hundreds) of brilliant roads, we do that region a lot on the bike in the summer. Get off the Auto route at Claremont and head in to the Volcans and work your way down from there. You can do the whole journey from Calais without going near an auto route, but France is so big it can take you far too long, depending how much time you have. The Gorge du Tarn is nice, but the road isn't the best IMHO, there are better. Infact I headed up out of the gorge up onto the plateau which was better, the gorge road can be quite busy. Just get a large scale map and head for the twisties, the topography of the land means that good roads go in almost every direction

 

Stu

 

Also have a look at BestBikingRoads.com for some tips, you may be able to join them up into a route

Edited by M30, 04 June 2013 - 05:18 PM.

[bigrob]

yeah the plan is to take a couple of days each way and camp out where we can so as to see as much of the country and great roads as possible. yeah cheers i'll check out the website and see what i can find :)