route?

[wishy]

For a change this year we are travelling down from Cherbourg instead of St.Malo,due to Brittany Ferries  being greedy with their charges.

Has anyone got a preferred route...i.e the quickest and easiest will suffice.

I have looked at various ways on autoroute express and can't decide which way to go!!!!

Wishy

[pretzel]

Not necessarily the quickest but a nice drive:

N13 Cherbourg to Carentan
N174 Carentan to Vire (passing through St. Lo)
D524/924  Vire to Flers
D962 Flers to Domfront
D23 Domfront to Mayenne (We then break off and take the D7 to our Hotel at Mezangers and cold beers, while you continue on)....
D35/D304 Mayenne to Le Mans

The last stretch is just one straight road so you shouldn't have the opportunity to get hopelessly lost  

You could always follow us - if you can keep up.

[guest]

N13 to Caen, then get on the N158 through Falaise ( good stop off point) Arginten and straight into Lemans, passing the Auchen hyper market on the way.

[Robbo SPS]

Wishy -

I went a few year  on my bike this way , and was VERY quick

N13 to Caen , then N158 towards Alencon then  becomes the N138 and the rest in a good bit of fun..

I e mailed Stu some route cards for his help pages . I think he was going to add them.  

[Barry]

Use the N13, N158, N138 route if you want a fast trip, I usually use that on the way down. But I always use the Mayenne, Donfort, Flers route for a more relaxed scenic trip back on Monday. Very little traffic, and great roads.

[Robbo SPS]

Use the N13, N158, N138 route if you want a fast trip, I usually use that on the way down. But I always use the Mayenne, Donfort, Flers route for a more relaxed scenic trip back on Monday. Very little traffic, and great roads.

I guess you have a bike then Barry...

[jpchenet]

I think the routes have been pretty much covered. The only piece of advice I'd suggest Wishy is allow a good bit of extra time when travelling back up the Cherbourg Peninsula. We did this route in 2001 and nearly missed the ferry because of the extra time it took.  That's why we always do Caen now!!

[Gilles]

The Mayenne option is definitely more a scenid road...
... but at Domfront you can stop for some local productions: calvados, cidre, poire,...  

[Barry]

Hi Robbo
You guessed right, used the bike for the last 2 years, although going down by car this year.
French roads and the good attitude of French car drives towards bikes was a reverlation, up untill then, only experienced the pot holes and aggression we have in the UK.

[Robbo SPS]

Hi Robbo
You guessed right, used the bike for the last 2 years, although going down by car this year.
French roads and the good attitude of French car drives towards bikes was a reverlation, up untill then, only experienced the pot holes and aggression we have in the UK.

I stopped taking the bike as i found it too easy to get carried away. And was inches from a serious fatal crash , which still gives me the chills today.

We did to Cherbourg route in 3hours 5mins on a bike. Inc food and stops.

Awsome roads.

[gibberish]

was inches from a serious fatal crash

Fatal usually is serious Robbo, or am I being too pedantic

Sorry

[pretzel]

Fatal usually is serious Robbo, or am I being too pedantic

Sorry

Hey Gibber - maybe you should try this kink: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Pedants_20Anonymous   I've been directed to it myself by colleagues at work a few times.

[gibberish]

Hey Gibber - maybe you should try this kink: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Pedants_20Anonymous   I've been directed to it myself by colleagues at work a few times.

Ah yes, I take your point Pretzel, but I don't think I will keep up with those people.  anyone else seen a poster on the underground "People who commit violence against our staff........"  Oh lord what idiot wrote that.

[Stu]

was inches from a serious fatal crash

Fatal usually is serious Robbo, or am I being too pedantic

Sorry

Pedantic me thinks. Serious is'nt always fatal unlike the famous newspaper story somewhere sometime that said 3 people were killed, 2 of them fatal.

[Robbo SPS]

 anyone else seen a poster on the underground "People who commit violence against our staff........"  Oh lord what idiot wrote that.

RANT ON

The same idiot who wrote a poster in my establishment - Any violence or the threat of violence will not be tolerated and may impose a prison sentance.

Poster was in the CCTV footage as a lad head butted me, he recieved a drug re-habilitation order .

The old boy in the Midlands who didnt pay his £60 speeding fine of 38mph in a 30 went to Prison for 2 WEEKS.
 

Bloody ridiculous.

RANT OFF