Driving to the Classic on the Wednesday or Thursday

[Nick M]

You may wish to avoid Rouen...

http://www.letour.fr/2012/TDF/COURSE/us/le_parcour...

Wednesday - http://www.letour.fr/2012/TDF/COURSE/us/400/etape_...

Thursday - http://www.letour.fr/2012/TDF/COURSE/us/500/etape_...

Hopefully they'll all be on their way well before we arrive late Thursday morning, but we'll be avoiding the city centre as I suspect that may still be a little busy.

[gruffalo]

We get off the ferry at 4 am in Dieppe on the Thursday morning, rather hoping that the tour is still in bed that early;-)

[pincher]

I am travelling down on Wednesday - the race route looks like it goes from Abbeville out to the coast and then back in again from Fécamp onwards. If you just hammer down the A28 from Calais, you should be ok I think. Might be a bit tricky around Rouen but I'm not going to let a bike race stop me from going through that tunnel!!!!