The
route from Calais to Paris, Languedoc, Southwest France or Spain
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| Routes from Calais to southwest
France via Rouen
are marginally longer (about 5 miles) than routes via Paris, but are
cheaper (less tolls) and far easier driving (less traffic, less stress,
fewer lorries). At French holiday weekends and other busy periods, they
are also usually faster, sometimes much faster. |
Route
guide:
Leave Calais on the A16
/
E402 motorway following signs for Boulogne,
Amiens.
The motorway is a toll-motorway from Boulogne to Abbeville
Just before Abbeville, take the free A28
/
E402 motorway to Rouen.
Rouen is sometimes a bit slow, but this is the only bit of hassle on
the whole route, and the route is well signposted.
At the entrance to Rouen the A28 becomes the N28.
Follow on down through the tunnel, then across the Seine. Immediately
after crossing the Seine, turn 270° right, following signs for Paris and Evreux
then Evreux & Orleans .
You will join the A13
motorway west of Rouen.
About 10 km south or Rouen, leave the A13 motorway for the A154 motorway, which
then becomes the N154
dual carriageway almost to Dreux.
Before Dreux,
you have about 10 km on the N12 (straightforward, but sometimes busy).
At the start of the town, leave the N12 following the signs for Chartres and Orleans.
After
Dreux, the
N154 is almost all modern dual-carriageway as far
as Chartres.
Traffic normally flows freely on the relatively straight and flat
single-carriageway section of the N154 from Chartres to the A10 toll motorway
before Orleans.
After joining the joining the A10 ,
it's motorway all the way. At Orleans, the motorway divides and you have are three possible choices :
1.
Clermont Ferrand
(for Languedoc and Spain) via A71
(toll ) and A75 (free
motorway) This route is not recommended for cars with heavy caravans or
in winter, as the A75
after Clermont Ferrand has - as well as the Millau Viaduct (toll)
- several long steep hills, and a long stretch at up to 1100
metres altitude, that is often snowed up in winter.
Clermont-Ferrand
hotels:
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hotels in and around Clermont-Ferrand (includes Formule 1, Etap, Ibis, Novotel,
Mercure and other Accor brands)
2.
Toulouse
(for the Dordogne, central southwest France) via the A20 . This motorway is free from Vierzon
until after Brive la Gaillarde.
3.
Bordeaux
(for southwest France and western Spain), via A10 (toll).
At Orleans, the A71+A20
split from the A10.
At Vierzon, south of Orleans, the A71
and A20
split.
Bordeaux
hotels:
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hotels in and around Bordeaux (includes Formule 1, Etap, Ibis, Novotel,
Mercure and other Accor brands)
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version of these instructions:
Printable
Calais-Southwest France route guide
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Hotels: just motorway
hotels that are very easy to find
The
overnight hotels listed on this
map have been carefully
chosen
because these are hotels that are close to the exit, easy to
find, and not located in
noisy industrial zones. Links on the map take you to
the hotels' own websites or other
booking sites, with online booking and the best offers
available.
NB: "Close to the exit" does not have to
mean noisy. All these modern hotels are well insulated and soundproofed.
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