calais to provence, need a stop half way

[CraigW]

Guys & gals, arrive in france on a sat am at about 8am, need to get to provence the next day around lunchtime, so.. on the sat I need somewhere to stay about half way, can anyone suggest anywhere? If I arrive 8 am, prob aim to be somewhere about 1 or 2. Country House hotel.chateau type thing.

Thx

[CraigW]

thx chaps, will take a look, can anyone reccoment routes down to provence, will be travelling sun am 1st thing, time is a bit of the essense but would like some nice roads if poss.

[CraigW]

need to end up in avignon

[CraigW]

thinking of driving a bit further on day 1 now, can anyone suggest anywhere to stay (chateau with pool or something) probably just south of Lyon/near grenoble, ideally countryside so dont have to go into towns?

[CraigW]

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?

[CraigW]

all great info chaps, as an aside, realise dd limit is much lower in france, 0.5mg, would 1 beer or 1 glass of wine put you over that?

[CraigW]

thx drgoat, do you mean traffic horrendous on autoroutes all way?

also, the police before tolls, did they have speedguns or pulling over randomly?

[CraigW]

it does, thx matey

[CraigW]

will try, thx for the tip