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Originally posted by BDG
Ray, i'm not a great fan of the roads in Northern France from the Tunnel on a bike so tend to avoid that route on the bike, however my best suggestions are definately take autoroute via Reims to avoid Paris and for some light relief from terminal boredom come off at Troyes and go down the N71 to Dijon for a short diversion.
Or for a longer diversion head slightly more to the west, look for Vitry-le-France on the bore d'route south of Reims get to St Dizier and use the N67 to Chaumont, N19 to Langres, N74 to Longeau then D67 to Gray, D475 to Dole (sign on there) then N5 towards Geneva. Then bore d'route to Grenoble and get on the Route Napoleon, as an alternative to flat out down the bore d'routes all the way. Its longer this way but breaks the monotony.
I prefer Le Havre crossings, down thru the Massif and cut across to the Alps myself for a far better variety of roads, but this is not great from Calais. |
I concur Shawn, and you saved me having to type it all out....
John