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As we did last year we areheading down to Spain this coming Saturday. Last year we did the Rouen - Eveux - Chartres - Orleans - Chateauroux - Limoges - Montauban - Toulouse - Carcassonne route. Hit snow on the motorway around Limoges.
This time we are thinking of taking a slightly more direct route going through the Central Massif at Clermont-Ferrand and over the Millau viaduct i.e. stay on the A75.
What are your opinions and are we likely to hit more snow with it being on that route through the mountains? or should we avoid this route at this time of the year? We hear the weather is terrible in Germany?
I did your route in 2002 and hit snow at rouen and lost it at Toulouse, it was a nightmare. Have you thought about doing the route upto Orleans then down the Atlantic coast on to Tours,Poiters , Bordeaux, San sebastian , Saragossa, Tarragona. You should miss all the snow on the Atlantic side. The milage is about the same. You don't say where in Spain but I am assuming on the Med somewhere. I can recommend Bennicasim. Hope this helps. Wish I was going back but I have only been home 6 weeks.
As a weather junkie i can recommend
www.metcheck.com
Push the free button and follow links through to France.The selection of towns is greater and the forcast prevision will take you up till next Christmas.
I often check this against Met Office,BBC etc and it is always more accurate.
Well it keeps an old man off the streets.
The lads that run Metcheck do it in a similar way to Nuke whilst he was wandering Europe.They simply moved the whole site to France for the Winter skiing and control it from there.
We were caught up in a blizzard on this route in late October. At this time of year it will be a nightmare. Leave well alone is my advice. Find an alternative route.
Presume you are talking the A75 route thorugh Clermont-Ferrand? It loks like it'll have to be to the west through Limoges and Toulouse then as we're heading for Roses just below perpignan.
Excuse my ignorance but what is wrong with routes to the east of Paris i.e. through e.g Troyes, Dijon and Lyon? or do they suffer with the weather too?
Why don't you do your weather checks on 2 or 3 alternative routes the day before you go so that you make your route decision as late as possible and have a forecast as up to date as you can get it.
The best advice I was given in 2000 was by someone who travels to France regularly through the winter.
It was his opinion that the Rouen, Chartres, Orleans, Limoges, Toulouse and Perpignan was the least likely to give problems and gave you an option.
If snow did become a problem then a detour to the west coast would probably find less snow and entry to Spain via its north west border with France an easy alternative.
The Dijon/Lyons route? If you have snow down the central (Limoges) route you will likely have snow down the Rhone valley and certainly Clermont-Ferrand.
He also warned against the Clermont-Ferrand route as being susceptible to fog. I can confirm that as we had experienced very bad fog between Millau and Clermont-Ferrand in the previous autumn.
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Thanks a million.
