we are going to spain in august and have worked out we will hit paris saturday lunch we are sailing to bolougne and all route planners are sending us through paris we need a route avoiding it, please help got lost last year in paris and really need to avoid it even it it puts extra hours/miles on journey
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thankyou very much for your help it looks a good route have you done this one what are the roads like, i think we have been through rouen b4 but we had a bit of trouble getting out of it seem to remember getting lost in the town center but that was about 8 years ago has it changed
I have also decided to take the route through Rouen and to pick up the motorways again at Orleans ( see earlier post relating to routes via Rouen), however after just speaking to a friend who went through Paris on his way south (and got lost for 3 hrs) but went back via east of Paris (lyon -dijon-troyes etc), his comments were that the return was so easy-motorways all the way, no traffic at all, about 8 hrs south to north (car only).
So now I'm wondering whether to take this "easy route", it just seems so out the way if your heading for Spain though !
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Motorway driving is so easy that it makes it worth while doing the extra miles. The 'aires' (lay-bys) are great to, especially if you avoid the busy restaurant/petrol station ones. The smaller ones have picnic/BBQ areas, and some even have mist-showers that you can walk through to cool off! Would recommend the Rouen/Troyes, etc route too.
Have a look at this thread for a really nice stopping off/picnic/throw-the-kids-in-a-lake-to-cool-off kind of place near Troyes:
If you want to avoid the Périphérique, you may take the Francilienne (coming from the North it starts at Charles the Gaulle airport'), which goes a bit wider around Paris. This one is fully motorways.
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