Eastern France June Road Trip
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Thinking of going on a bit of a road trip round the Alsace and down into Jura then on to Annecy and then find a route back up.
The plan is for 2 weeks a couple of nights to stop in each location to explore the area.
Scenery is the main objective followed by food and wine. Cities come quite well down the list, we want to explore open spaces more but there are a few things I do want to specifically do like Beaune, Troyes, Besancon Citadel, Annecy and he surrounding hills.
The plan is to keep off the motorways, the car we are taking is my Cerbera.
Does anyone have any suggestions of places to visit and scenic route to drive?
Is there a French Tourist office in London we could visit to get more ideas?
The plan is for 2 weeks a couple of nights to stop in each location to explore the area.
Scenery is the main objective followed by food and wine. Cities come quite well down the list, we want to explore open spaces more but there are a few things I do want to specifically do like Beaune, Troyes, Besancon Citadel, Annecy and he surrounding hills.
The plan is to keep off the motorways, the car we are taking is my Cerbera.
Does anyone have any suggestions of places to visit and scenic route to drive?
Is there a French Tourist office in London we could visit to get more ideas?
Have a look at the Michelin road maps (either on paper or at https://www.viamichelin.co.uk/web/Maps/Map-France ) as they highlight interesting roads in green.
As well as a good atlas download the best biking roads app and then you can use the scenic roads marked on the atlas and cross reference with BBR and plan your routes that way
I’ve done several trips that way then upload them onto Google maps and save them
Works an absolute treat, did a long trip through France last year from Roscoff right down to Spain and found some absolutely fantastic scenery and roads
I’ve done several trips that way then upload them onto Google maps and save them
Works an absolute treat, did a long trip through France last year from Roscoff right down to Spain and found some absolutely fantastic scenery and roads
There is also the Schlumpf National Motor museum in that part of the world - https://www.musee-automobile.fr/en/
Have a look at the Charming Small Hotels website, it's actually a proper website and not a copycat that just punts you to booking.com or Hotels.com.
We used it in book form about 25 years ago, and it was brilliant. A couple of places stick out in my memory:
Chateau Ige in the Macon region.
Relais de la Croix-Fry (now called Chalet Hotel de la etc)
Find interesting places to stay, and then plan routes between them.
We used it in book form about 25 years ago, and it was brilliant. A couple of places stick out in my memory:
Chateau Ige in the Macon region.
Relais de la Croix-Fry (now called Chalet Hotel de la etc)
Find interesting places to stay, and then plan routes between them.
We're off to the same region in July. From another bit of PH, someone posted this link to find 'interesting roads'. Looks to be plenty in the region.
https://roadcurvature.com/map/#map=2.558/-30/19
https://roadcurvature.com/map/#map=2.558/-30/19
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