Alternative fun routes?

[anthonyjm]

We are thinking of having a couple of days european driving on the way down to le mans this year. We would probably aim to land in Calais on the monday morning and then set off from there, with the intention of being at le mans by lunchtime/early afternoon on the wednesday. Can anyone recommend any nice driving routes? Ideally about 6-8 hours driving for the first 2 days with about 4 hours for the weds?

[DucatiGary]

6-8 hours from calais you can be at the ring, thats a fun drive

then head down to lemans Via reims along the back roads and that will be another say 8 hours (unless you drive really slow, in which case youll prolly do it in 6-7 hours )

[mutley]

Have you thought of travelling via Pegasus Bridge, Arromanches and the D-Day beaches?

Thats on the cards for my trip next year.

[f308 man]

mutley said:

Have you thought of travelling via Pegasus Bridge, Arromanches and the D-Day beaches?

Thats on the cards for my trip next year.

Did this muts, on the way home this year .... museum at pegasus (do the fascinating tour with the guide), lunch at the cafe over the river, travel along the five beaches and finished at the large cemetry in Bayeaux ... fantastic but hugely poignant.
Well worth it, but you need a couple o' days.
I stayed in Honfleur as per usual, beautiful place.
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[ettore]

Or you can do the Somme battlefields or even earlier, Agincourt and Crecy are en route...

[anthonyjm]

The ring sounds like it could be a goer. Not wanting to be disrespectful, but im not overly interested in seeing history/musuems, more interested in some nice driving. Thanks for some ideas though.

[littlegearl]

f308 man said:

Did this muts, on the way home this year .... museum at pegasus (do the fascinating tour with the guide), lunch at the cafe over the river, travel along the five beaches and finished at the large cemetry in Bayeaux ... fantastic but hugely poignant.
Well worth it, but you need a couple o' days.
I stayed in Honfleur as per usual, beautiful place.
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sounds very similar to a school trip i did many years ago, only with out the Ferrari! been meaning to go back to Pegasus bridge though, well worth a revisit.

Also want to increase my knowledge of the fighting that took place through the Ardennes forest and at the border town of Hagenau.

Not into history? well the Ardennes also contains the 2 greatest european road circuits in Spa and the Nurburgring with fantastic roads around both, or you can stop off and visit the old circuits at Rouen, Reims and Clemmont-Ferrand. Or try and retrace the Le Mans Grand Prix circiut from 1906.