Summer 2025 Road trip
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Hi all
Quite excited with this adventure just planned.
Leave work Friday night to catch the Portsmouth - Santander ferry. Plan is to drive back through the Pyrenees cross France via a night stop on the Normandy coast with family before catching the Eurotunnel home on the [following] Sunday.
Few Top Gear inspired stops including Pamplona (RH did the whole bull run thing in the Murcielago spyder video). Also popping up to see the Millau viaduct and drive the Gorges du Tarn (French supercar tour).
If interest shows I'll share an itinerary and pictures. Not going until July just a little excited!!
Quite excited with this adventure just planned.
Leave work Friday night to catch the Portsmouth - Santander ferry. Plan is to drive back through the Pyrenees cross France via a night stop on the Normandy coast with family before catching the Eurotunnel home on the [following] Sunday.
Few Top Gear inspired stops including Pamplona (RH did the whole bull run thing in the Murcielago spyder video). Also popping up to see the Millau viaduct and drive the Gorges du Tarn (French supercar tour).
If interest shows I'll share an itinerary and pictures. Not going until July just a little excited!!
Edited by Driversmatter on Monday 10th March 11:03
Edited by Driversmatter on Monday 10th March 16:45
Thanks all for the comments.
Timing is everything. We were initially looking at joining an organised your that was going to be covering the Picos De Europa and Pyrenees. However, we needed to get exact dates of the lads GCSE exams. These mean we will miss the set your. Have come to realise this may not be a bad thing. We wouldn't know anyone (I know you'd quickly get to know people / make friends) but how many would be rather and son travellers and sometimes it's nice to be able to break step and do your own thing or travel at your own pace.
So we then looked at boat into Santander and out of Bilbao following weekend. The return gets expensive and for a week road trip gives you a good dollop of time at sea. Then looked at Eurotunnel options for the return.
Family are on the Normandy coast so plotted a route that would take us through Le Mans taking in some other sites of Top Gear road trips. Incidentally road trips, when types as one word, gets auto corrected to 'disastrous '. Lol
We now have provisional accommodation booked, and a rough route planned using Michelin route planner on the computer.
Timing is everything. We were initially looking at joining an organised your that was going to be covering the Picos De Europa and Pyrenees. However, we needed to get exact dates of the lads GCSE exams. These mean we will miss the set your. Have come to realise this may not be a bad thing. We wouldn't know anyone (I know you'd quickly get to know people / make friends) but how many would be rather and son travellers and sometimes it's nice to be able to break step and do your own thing or travel at your own pace.
So we then looked at boat into Santander and out of Bilbao following weekend. The return gets expensive and for a week road trip gives you a good dollop of time at sea. Then looked at Eurotunnel options for the return.
Family are on the Normandy coast so plotted a route that would take us through Le Mans taking in some other sites of Top Gear road trips. Incidentally road trips, when types as one word, gets auto corrected to 'disastrous '. Lol
We now have provisional accommodation booked, and a rough route planned using Michelin route planner on the computer.
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