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Has anyone any previous experience of wild camping on the Tour de France route.
Hoping to go this year to Gap area to try to see the Alpe D'Huez stage, would appreciate any info at all that can be passed on regarding sites in that area and ease/difficulty in accessing good viewpoints with motorhomes
I bet you won't be able to wild camp on the route in 2007 when it comes over to start in London & Kent!
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Good day Lizibeth
First I have to agree with the sad but probably true forecast in Bognormikes reply.Lets face it one is not supposed to enjoy liberties like that in this kill joy , and greedy, country. Let's hope we are wrong.
We have seen a day of the Tour De France six different years. It is a great fun day...never mind the racing. Of the six two were on passing by the route and stopped an hour or so to see the peleton pass. Two were when camping on a campsite near by and we went out for the day to the route. And two, 2005 and 2002 were a deliberately planned operation to pitch up alongside the route in the camping car.
Meticulous planning is needed as there will be thousands of like minded and experienced Mainlanders (F D I E etc) will be doing the same.
! Obtain accurate map of the day you have chosen to watch. ( Buy magazuine the official Tde F one is ideal or copy from the internet .
2 Camp in the area say 2 days early then do a reccy of the nearby route and pick out one or two places you think will be intersting such as at the apex of a large curve or at a hill climb.
3 Leave the next morning at the latest and find your spot sussing out the best logical "pitch" and get in there. If you don't someone else will. Take care not to leave space between your wagon and the white line at edge of route. Get your chairs out and watch the world come and join you or pass you by. Up "a la bonne heure" race day and consolidate your chairs position. Sit back drink your coffee have breakfast and enjoy the ambience and the manouevering of the later comers. Most interesting. Then comes the "pub " caravanne then the Motardes (Gendarmes on motorcycles with Tete de Cours then the peloton will start flashing by. There will almost certainly be a Gendarme posted within 100 mtres of you. Ours last year was a most friendly fellow.
4 Admission!!. We did the above last year at Geradmer. Against my Navigator/Catering Officers advice I left our departure from the Aire we were on until early afternoon (day before race) and went to the places we'd sussed out.Too late was the cry. The camping cars were so close you couldn,t walk between them so we proceded down the col and , with smart move of Navigator jumping out and standing on a suitable pitch seconds before a German camper van was able to slot in, I did a smart astern movement and slotted in!!
Vans arrived during the night and fortunately a French couple arrived early am.and parked accross our front and gave us protection from camping cars forcing their way in. We spoke to the French couple and they had forgotten their chairs so we shared ours so we had a constant guard against someone moving them a bit. Had an excellent view and a super day out . Went back to the Aire (after slow exodus from the route )we were on and that was that.
Go for it wether you enjoy it or not you can't fail to find it interesting and you'll never forget it.
Hi there, we are going to see the tour this year and have already booked our site at Le Colporteur in Bourg d'oisans. We have been before and i agree it is mayhem if you do not have site. We have stayed in a village called Allemont just outside Bourgd'oisans, but as the tour is going through there this year i expect that will be chaos as well, so the advice i would give would be book a site now, or take your chances, but don't hold your breath about finding somewhere on spec.
I definitely recommend getting there early this year. We're camping in the Colporteur site in Bourg d'Oisans also - some other sites wanted bookings for a fortnight minimum.
From there, we will drive to Gap for the stage finish on July 16th, walk or cycle halfway up Alpe d'Huez on July 18th, cycle up towards La Toussuire on the following day and hopefully persuade a motorist to take me to see part of the Morzine stage. With 4 stages in close proximity, a record number of people will head for the Alps in 2006.
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