Driving to Bergerac, France

[BERGS2]

Mrs & I are setting off for a week in france tomorrow & I was comtemplating stopping at Le Mans, as it's roughly half way (of a 700 mile trip)

are there any motoring related museums or similar that are worth visiting?

anywhere else worth a visit on the way down mid western france?

What is the current gendarmes policy on speeding? - having just had a NIP through here, the last thing i'd want would be to get a fat fine over there...

cheeers all

[anonymous-user]

Have a word with 'djc' his family have a place down that way!

Edited by MonkeyMatt on Sunday 17th May 17:11

[Targarama]

French speeding - big crackdown over there. Be careful and do not get caught at more than 30kmh over the limit of you will lose you license. Take you car's registration document as well as the usual bits and bobs - French Police will expect to see this if you get pulled.

Finally don't be tempted to speed in the last 20km before the final toll, which is 50ish km South of Calais on the A26. Gendarme speed trap paradise.

[HappyGoLucky]

Watch out for unmarked camera cars, mostly estates last time I got nabbed it was a pug 306 tourer on the move with a hole cut in the tailgate for the camera to poke through!

[PaulHogan]

You could consider going (or coming back) via the other side of France as one of the best car museums in the world is in Mulhouse: http://www.collection-schlumpf.com/en/schlumpf/

[Puggit]

We've got a house just south of Le Mans. The police in that area are hot on speeding in towns. The limit is 50kmph and it's a rigid policy.

There are fixed cams on the A28 in 2 places. On the approaches to the 1 lane viaducts just south of the A13, and just North of Alencon. It's also not uncommon to see the police with speed traps on their access roads (normally next to a new bridge, the access road being the road the A28 has just cut across).

There is of course the motoring museum itself at Le Mans, and just near us is the Hotel de France in La Chartre-sur-le-Loir, which has a large collection of motoring memorabilia (mainly photos and other wall mounted things) from earlier years - worth staying at for the food too, although the hotel itself is cheap and cheerful.