Have just booked the ferry for 2014 and after much deliberation hubby has finally agreed to forfeit the Atlantic coast and drive instead from Roscoff to the river canyons of Verdon followed by the Med coast. Excited is an understatement, will get to visit Monaco, Cannes and Nice. Have craved to do the Provence region and so we have booked 3 weeks to do our trip. Would really love to hear your stories and views of both areas if you have been? Xxx
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We did the areas you mention in late September 2009. Fabulous area with loads to do, especially if you are a walker, swimmer, canoeist, canyoner etc.
We stayed HERE ...See our review.
Here's our photo album of the holiday... PHOTOS
The last photo was back at Calais in October!
We have been to both of these places many years ago - The Gorges d Verdon are breathtaking.
We stayed at various campsites around Frejus but think it may be different now - We had some brilliant times there. It suited us at that time as we had a couple of teenage girls with us so our preferences were very different to now.
What time of year are you going JoReed? I think July and August would be manic. We always went June or September and even then it was pretty busy
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Residence du Campeur is an excellent site.
I took a coach trip around the gorges, so that I could admire the views, instead of looking at the very windy roads, The tour guide made one lovely comment " If you look down into the gorge now, you'll see the cars that never made it" - made me glad I'd taken the coach
Gorges du verdon are breathtaking but that area does get VERY busy in July August.If you like walking and have a sense of adventure the walk through the canyon called the sentier Martell is awesome and rightly one of europes most popular walks.
We stayed at the no-longer-in-existence Les Romarins campsite outside Nice back in late June 2010. The old town in Nice was lovely, we spent a lot of time just walking round it. Also went to Monaco which was just brilliant to walk around and take in all the sights. (We were there when they were filming that ITV show 'Monte Carlo or bust' and saw Jack Dee and Ade Edmondson at the Hotel de Paris, which was quite bizarre!) I would love to go back, but not sure how we'd do it now we have kids in tow!
Thanks for all your feedback (sorry Im late replying)and particularly the pics alahol it looks fab, les pins looks lovely but their holiday window of sat to sat isn`t going to work with our plans so we googled the area and found La source right next door with river access too .... yipee! So now pretty much decided on our camping parks. Frejus looks like a great place to explore the famous resorts of the Riviera. can't wait
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We stay down there evey year, not July or Aug though, and we camp a bit further east near Antibes. The site we use is opposite Biot station so handy for getting the train along the coast. But we love cycling along the coast, Cagnes sur Mer is particularly good.
Inland, we have visited lots of the villages by car, and driven the Gorge du Verdon road several times, camping at Moustieres St Marie.
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Gorges du Verdon are breathtaking and an exciting drive. We stayed in a lovely Provencal town called Cotignac, about and hour from the coast.
Cotignac is lovely as are many of the hilltop villages in that area - we stayed recently in Aups (on a par with Cotignac, I'd say but the campsite is ten minutes walk from the town centre). These are both some distance from the Verdon and you might prefer to stay on the River (or, where it broadens out, the Lac de Croix) - there are lots of camps all the way along. The gorges themselves come in two parts. The lower gorges at Quinson (ha a sparkling new Geology museum) can only be accessed by water - boats for hire. The upper gorges can be viewed from the road at ppropriate stopping places. It can be a bit hairy at times: you don't see lorries on the narrow road, fortunately, but meeting a campervan coming round a corner in the middle of the road can be scarey! There is another road on the other side of the river (les Cretes) narrow, with no barriers and poor road surface but it's not recommended. The haut gorges are probably best if you want to camp by the river and awake to the sun coming up over spectacular high cliffs! Another alternative is the village of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie near the start of the hut gorges - spectacular place with plenty of restaurants &c..
Hope that helps! I've got lots of pictures if I knew how to upload them ....
I would have said almost exactly the same thing as lyanabint:
We have been to both of these places many years ago - The Gorges d Verdon are breathtaking.
We stayed at various campsites around Frejus but think it may be different now - We had some brilliant times there. It suited us at that time as we had a couple of teenage boys with us so our preferences were very different to now.
What time of year are you going JoReed? I think July and August would be manic. We always went June or September and even then it was pretty busy
with the only different thing being we had boys with us. We always used to holiday in that area when they were little - staying near friends - in Cavalaire, in Frejus, in Roquebrune, in St Raphael, at Esterel, and near Nice - sometimes more than one holiday - over many years. We also stayed in Castellane - the site Gorges du Verdon - but it was so many years ago - perhaps as many as twenty eight or twenty nine...... so I don't feel qualified to comment on the site.
The whole area is magnificent, but like lyanabint we always went outside high season - and even so long ago, and in May or June, or September, the traffic was always really busy. If you're going to tour around the Gorge itself then set off early to make the best of it, then allow yourself plenty of time to stop for photograph opportunities. We actually did the Route des Cretes a couple of times, and I still remember 'looking over the barrier' and it being straight down for a bigger distance than I care to remember even now - no warning notices - nothing! In fact at one point going down hill with nothing at the side I actually got out of the car and walked down one stretch on the inner side of the road!
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Topic: Gorges du Verdon & Frejus, who`s been?
