chunnel by car. 5 -7 days by car in france. Where?
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Buy this guidebook
https://www.amazon.co.uk/France-Charming-Small-Hot...
Link probably won't work as I've chopped a load off the end, but you can search for it by title.
Find some hotels you like the look of and build up a plan from there.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/France-Charming-Small-Hot...
Link probably won't work as I've chopped a load off the end, but you can search for it by title.
Find some hotels you like the look of and build up a plan from there.
Depends what you mean by not too much driving.
Bayeux was fantastic, I'd happily live there, brilliant fresh produce, lovely restaurants, lots to see and do - Epernay and the champagne tours are also amazing - my wife absolutely loved doing a couple of tours (Mercier and Moet) on her birthday - she'd had 7 glasses of champagne before lunch.
But they are both a good few hours from Calais.
Bayeux was fantastic, I'd happily live there, brilliant fresh produce, lovely restaurants, lots to see and do - Epernay and the champagne tours are also amazing - my wife absolutely loved doing a couple of tours (Mercier and Moet) on her birthday - she'd had 7 glasses of champagne before lunch.
But they are both a good few hours from Calais.
Just arrived back last night from France (St Malo-Portsmouth) and had a couple of glorious days around Dinan/Dinan-Port/Dinard/Saint Cast-Le-Guido after a straight 19 days of rain in the Limousin. Stayed at the Mercure in Dinan-Port for two nights before catching the ferry. Very nice part of the country but never had time before to have a look around as we've always gone straight to the ferry. A good restaurant in Dinan-Port is L'Atellier Gourmand, highly recommended.
I’d always aim to end up in the Cote d’Azure because it’s one of my favourite places. However, if you don’t want to go that far I would spend a night or two in Reims and visit one of the Champagne houses and possibly go to Evian and do a boat trip on Lake Geneva. Plenty of lovely food along the way.
WyrleyD said:
Just arrived back last night from France (St Malo-Portsmouth) and had a couple of glorious days around Dinan/Dinan-Port/Dinard/Saint Cast-Le-Guido after a straight 19 days of rain in the Limousin. Stayed at the Mercure in Dinan-Port for two nights before catching the ferry. Very nice part of the country but never had time before to have a look around as we've always gone straight to the ferry. A good restaurant in Dinan-Port is L'Atellier Gourmand, highly recommended.
Whilst it’s a great location, its too far from Calais on the basis of the OP requirements. philv said:
Thanks for all the repies.
A couple of hours max driving any one day, preferably an hour.
We like a little bit of sight seeing, looking in various shops, nice food, the usual casual tourist thing.
My girlfriend is driving for first time abroad.
Colmar in the Alsace is absolutely lovely, easily reachable in one day and the surrounding villages and countryside are magical.A couple of hours max driving any one day, preferably an hour.
We like a little bit of sight seeing, looking in various shops, nice food, the usual casual tourist thing.
My girlfriend is driving for first time abroad.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/andym42/albums/72157...
andyA700 said:
philv said:
Thanks for all the repies.
A couple of hours max driving any one day, preferably an hour.
We like a little bit of sight seeing, looking in various shops, nice food, the usual casual tourist thing.
My girlfriend is driving for first time abroad.
Colmar in the Alsace is absolutely lovely, easily reachable in one day and the surrounding villages and countryside are magical.A couple of hours max driving any one day, preferably an hour.
We like a little bit of sight seeing, looking in various shops, nice food, the usual casual tourist thing.
My girlfriend is driving for first time abroad.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/andym42/albums/72157...
philv said:
Thanks for all the repies.
A couple of hours max driving any one day, preferably an hour.
We like a little bit of sight seeing, looking in various shops, nice food, the usual casual tourist thing.
My girlfriend is driving for first time abroad.
Do you both drink?A couple of hours max driving any one day, preferably an hour.
We like a little bit of sight seeing, looking in various shops, nice food, the usual casual tourist thing.
My girlfriend is driving for first time abroad.
Lot to be said for just driving south from Calais if you do.
- Day 1 there's not much of interest in the Pas du Calais but 2hrs from Calais will get you to Saint-Quentin which has a nice centre.
- Day 2 just 1hr driving will get you to Reims and some Champagne tasting.
- Day 3 and 1.5hrs driving will get you to Troyes which also seems to have a nice old town area.
- Day 4 and 2 to 2.5hrs driving will get you to Dijon and Bergundy tasting and mustard, with every village south from there being win based.
- Days 5/6/7 working your way back up.
Hijacking the thread a bit, but :
We're going over on Eurontunnel for August BH - leave Thurs morning, back Monday evening. Happy to drive a bit from Calais - 4-5 hours is probably max.
For some reason, the g/f wants to be close to beaches - which probably limits us to going East or West from Calais - but I may be able to persuade her that isn't necessary (6 weeks after that we'll be going somewhere which is pretty much just beach - so not sure we really need to restrict the August trip quite so much).
Any additional suggestions?
(I've seen the suggestion for Belgium which might be a good bet - we did Bruges a couple of years ago, but could stay closer to the coast).
ETA : Thinking Amsterdam could be an option. Never been, only about an hour from the coast and ~4 hour drive from Calais which is a distance I'm happy with.
We're going over on Eurontunnel for August BH - leave Thurs morning, back Monday evening. Happy to drive a bit from Calais - 4-5 hours is probably max.
For some reason, the g/f wants to be close to beaches - which probably limits us to going East or West from Calais - but I may be able to persuade her that isn't necessary (6 weeks after that we'll be going somewhere which is pretty much just beach - so not sure we really need to restrict the August trip quite so much).
Any additional suggestions?
(I've seen the suggestion for Belgium which might be a good bet - we did Bruges a couple of years ago, but could stay closer to the coast).
ETA : Thinking Amsterdam could be an option. Never been, only about an hour from the coast and ~4 hour drive from Calais which is a distance I'm happy with.
Edited by davek_964 on Tuesday 21st May 14:47
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