Rally To Spain Proposed Routes Forums

Enodreven

Hi,
As I posted on the main thread I have asked Kands and Whislinggyspy for help in working out 2 routes to Spain for Janurary 2007, both of them have been kind enough to offer their support and assitance which i have readerly accepted. So as other people can see how we are progressing and perhaps have an input also, i though i would post the initial 2 routes that Autoroute has come up with and I would welcome all of your comments and suggestions into, The suitability for travel if the weather turns bad in Jan, if there are better routes, places suitable for overnight stops, etc etc. please feel free to comment as I and everyone else who is going to come with me or use one of the routes themselves will welcome your experiance and pior knowledge, so please help

The routes :-

The first route/suggestion is from Calais to Barcelona via Millau which hopefully will take us over the Bridge is as if the weather is good i would really like to see this, also please comment on the suitablity of using this as a return for later in the year:-

Calais A26
Arras A1
Paris A1,A3,A6B then A11
Towards Chartres
Onto A10 near Saint-Mesme
Orleans A71
Vierzon A71
Clemont-Ferrand A75
Millau A75
to near Saint Thibery
and join E15/A9
Narbonne
Perpingnan
into Spain campsite to to selected later

Which is approximatly 850 miles to Barcelona

The Second route which is from Calais to near Malaga taking the west coast of France, is as follows

Calais A16
Boulogne-sur-mer
Abbeville A28
Rouen A28
Alencon
Le Mans
Tours A10
Chatellerault
Poitiers A10/N10
Angouleme A10/E606
Bordeaux A10,A630, A63, E5
Bayonne
San Sebastian E5, A1
Vitoria E5
Burgos E5
Madrid E5
Valdepernas E5
Granada
Arrive at Motril campsite needs to be sorted later

This route is approximatly 1300 miles

Comments please, I am aware that the French are re-numbering their roads so please take account of this if you know the new numbers that would be great

Brian

Don Madge

Brian,

Are you interested in overnight stops on these routes Question

Don

Enodreven

Hi, Don

Yes that would be really great,

What do you think of the routes ?? I was hoping that if the weather forecast for France was reasonable I would suggest the first route and if it looked like a lot of snow etc route 2 does that make any sense

Thanks
Brian

whistlinggypsy · NW Rally Co-ordinator

Brian, you have a PM.

Bob

Enodreven

Hi, Bob

Just checked the inbox and I can't see anything yet, did you get my email address ?

Brian

whistlinggypsy · NW Rally Co-ordinator

Brian, well plotted with both routes, (route 1) I would myself use the N20 south of Paris simply because I don't like motorways the rest of the route is fine for me.

The only thing you will have too look for is weather conditions crossing the Massif Central and crossing THAT wonderful bridge, I would not like that in a gale, "it's high"

Route 2. Have used this route many times but I again would make more use of the N10 from south of Tours as it goes all the way too Bordeaux.

The route over the mountains from Vitoria to Burgos and down to Madrid can be very difficult in January, watch the weather forecasts.

I have sent a route to vicdicdoc following your route until Irun then via Pamplona, Zaragoza, Llieda and Cambrils because he and the snails did not want a mountainous route.

I am sure between Don Madge, myself and others we can supply enough stopovers for each route.

Bob

whistlinggypsy · NW Rally Co-ordinator

Brian, according to my inbox you have now got the route is that correct Question

Bob

whistlinggypsy · NW Rally Co-ordinator

I am trying to add an attachment to a proposed route with stopovers/Aires from autoroute and it will not accept an "axe" file, any ideas what to do.

Bob

Enodreven

Hi, Bob

Thanks for the info, I'm not sure what Vicdicdoc, is doing but as I said in an earlier post i with the help of others are going to put together 2 routes and they would be for everyones use which obviously includes Vicdicdoc, so hopefully we can all meetup on route

I have had a email from another user on MHF who has suggested a similar modification to the second route as you, So if I understand you correctly are you suggesting that for a possibly safer route we should head Pamplona, Zaragoza, Llieda and Cambrils as this should help to avoid the high ground in bad weather.

It just that when I looked on google it looked like that route was right alongside of the Pryanees so I thought obviously wrongly that it would have been on higher ground and more subseptable to snow etc. still you live and learn and thats why I'm asking everyone to contribute

As for route one, I was thinking if we couldn't go that way because of weather conditions, it may be worth looking at as a return route ?

Thanks again,

quote="whistlinggypsy"]Brian, well plotted with both routes, (route 1) I would myself use the N20 south of Paris simply because I don't like motorways the rest of the route is fine for me.

The only thing you will have too look for is weather conditions crossing the Massif Central and crossing THAT wonderful bridge, I would not like that in a gale, "it's high"

Route 2. Have used this route many times but I again would make more use of the N10 from south of Tours as it goes all the way too Bordeaux.

The route over the mountains from Vitoria to Burgos and down to Madrid can be very difficult in January, watch the weather forecasts.

I have sent a route to vicdicdoc following your route until Irun then via Pamplona, Zaragoza, Llieda and Cambrils because he and the snails did not want a mountainous route.

I am sure between Don Madge, myself and others we can supply enough stopovers for each route.

Bob[/quote]