Hi All, we are thinking of touring Northern Spain & travelling up the West coast of France for 3-4 weeks in January/February, next year. Has anybody any tips or advice on doing this at this time of year? We are not expecting 'tropical weather' but will it be cold, wet & miserable? We can get that at home! Also, we have been warned against the Bay of Biscay at this time of year.
Thanks in advance.
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We live 100 miles from the coast of Western France, one year the winter will be fine in the main and the next year terrible.
Our rule of thumb is that we will endure a 6 week period each winter when the weather is much worse than the UK, what we don't know is when. We wouldn't go to the coast until mid March.
The nearer the coast the more UK like the weather can be, more westerly weather including the storms, further from the coast it will at times be more easterly, intense cold and dryer.
Last winter hardly a frost, two years before, for 15 days it never got above freezing and for 7 days never above -9C.
Sites will be issue, chose your route with that in mind.
I have been to Benidorm with a caravan twice including this year. We go in late March. We take our time coming back through France early May and had decent weather. If I was going in mid January I would use the Channel Tunnel. I would not do the Bay of Biscay. I would get at least halfway down Spain for decent weather, with over night stops and do the same over nighters if returning before April. We take five days to Benidorm from Northumberland.
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Topic: North Spain & West France in January
Looks like a flying holiday then! Thanks for your advice, even though I'm feeling a little queasy just reading it!!
