Calais to Valencia

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I am hoping to drive from Calais to Valencia later this summer and three routes came up on my route planner all showing pretty mcc the same time/distance.
1)Down the west of France and into Spain at San Sebastian, then through Spain
2) Through France - Paris,Orleans, Millau.Perpignan, Barcelona, Valencia
3)Through France via Dijon,Lyon Montpellier etc

I wonder if anyone has experience of any of those routes and recommendations etc

Many thanks

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Thanks for all the suggestions - we may end up choosing one route down and another route back as we'd like to see the Millau bridge but also would imagine that the drive through Spain would be interesting
We're coming from Yorkshire so the tunnel seemed to be the most flexible route rather than the other ports.

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Thank you all so much for some great suggestions. On reflection it looks as though the ferry to Caen/St Malo will save time and mileage so we’ll probably go for that option particularly as we’re not planning on doing sightseeing on the way there, although we may do that on the return journey.
Valencia is the destination so that we can take a ferry to the Balearics - normally we fly but just don’t fancy planes and airports at the moment.