calais to provence, need a stop half way

[CraigW]

it does, thx matey

[Davey S2]

Craig if you get the chance take the D996 from just outside Reims to Dijon. Absolutely brilliant road and very quiet. Cant recommend it enough.

[CraigW]

will try, thx for the tip

[Puggit]

drgoatboy said:

Its worth listening to 107.7 fm which is the autoroute traffic news station, some areas have english updates (couldn't work out the pattern as to where and when) but if you can speak a bit of French you can normally can pick out which areas and roads are busy.


As for the speed traps they were parked at the side of the road with radar guns, pressumably they clocked you and then radioed through to their mates to pick you up at the next toll booth. Hope that makes sense.

English traffic news is at quarter past and quarter to the hour

I've noticed on the A28 (new autoroute from Rouen-Tours via Le Mans) that they park in side roads just off bridges - ie where an old road used to be and has been cut off by the A28, they've created an access road for the police. Then there is a bridge where the road has been re-routed.

[r129sl]

CraigW said:

excellent, thanks all, much appreciated.

On a slightly different topic, I'm taking the old porker not the RS6 so hardy going to be hammering it but when heading from calais I've heard le plod are out in force so will stick to speed limit, will be heading south as I said above, for how long on the autoroutes does one have to have eyes glued to speedo and is there any acceptable grey area over limit, ie here i never really panic at 80-85ish on motorway?

160km/h is safe enough in a 130km/h limit. The fun starts if you're done at 170 or more...