Best route from Calais to Le Mans

[lowdrag]

Your debit card will not even need you to put in your code, just like the M6 toll.

[Rick101]

Nice one, cheers.

[andy_vtec]

There are a few routes to bypass the Rouen bridge closure - we used this one last year and it was easy/quick:

1). Do not follow A28 all the way to Rouen. Leave A28 at Junction 11, follow A29/E44 direction Le Havre / Caen.
2). Leave A29 at the next exit, signed A151 Rouen / Dieppe.
3). Now follow toll-free A151 then A150 then N1338 to Rouen.
4). After crossing the Seine on the "Pont Flaubert", follow signs for A13. You join the Rouen south expressway, just follow it.
5). Keep following signs for A13. Eventually you will have a choice between A13 Paris and A13 Caen. Follow A13/A28 Caen/Le Harve/Elbeuf/Le Mans
6). then take the exist signposted A28/E402 toward Bordeaux/Le Mans/Lisieux/Alencon
7). A28 all the way to Le Mans.

[David W.]

lowdrag said:

Your debit card will not even need you to put in your code, just like the M6 toll.

It helps if you have a passenger to do the transaction (or very long arms).
dw

[jason900]

David W. said:

lowdrag said:

Your debit card will not even need you to put in your code, just like the M6 toll.

It helps if you have a passenger to do the transaction (or very long arms).
dw

Yes!! I knew the left hand drive would come in handy!!

[jhrfc]

Any chance of the more interesting route? Heading down for the first time on the thursday.
Have drivne that way on the autoroute loads of times, but want to avoid too many crowds.
cheers
J

[lowdrag]

I suppose it is really outdated, like me, but once upon a time we used to use a thing called a "map" and having looked carefully used to write out a list of villages and road numbers so we could avoid the main drag. I believe that these "maps" are virtually obsolescent, but can still be found in specialist shops if you look hard. I still manage to find the A3-size Michelin map of France here, and I know it can be found in Waterstones. It is a treasure we should guard by buying the same. Once you discover it, you will never want to be without it.

[OvalOwl]

lowdrag said:

I suppose it is really outdated, like me, but once upon a time we used to use a thing called a "map" and having looked carefully used to write out a list of villages and road numbers so we could avoid the main drag. I believe that these "maps" are virtually obsolescent, but can still be found in specialist shops if you look hard. I still manage to find the A3-size Michelin map of France...

I've got one of those from 1990 :-)

It has the dubious advantage of not having many of the Autoroutes on it so I don't know they are there. Michelin handily colours the edges of roads green where the scenery is deemed to be pretty.

[H100S]

Planning on going next year, probably going to do the Calais, Arras, Paris to Lemans. I really want to go back to Vimmy Ridge not been since a child so I am prepared to do some Auto Route just to see this.