funflair
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Well we aren't there yet BUT, we got off the ferry at Zeebrugge and set Co-pilot for our first stop which is usually at Marboue just over 300 miles from the ferry, my profile is set to avoid tolls if possible so we thought we would just see where it took us. Usually we stay on the coast road past Calais A16 and A28 to Rouen and then N154 to join the N10 at Chatres, this costs about Euro 28 in tolls for a class 3 beast like ours.
We headed towards Brugge and then cut off a little corner that TomTom never did for us, we picked up the coast road for a while and then "she" aren't they all she's, said turn onto the D300 towards St Omer well that was certainly new to us, it's not as fast as the motorway as apart from anything there are a lot of roundabouts, but it does cut off the corner off and it was a pleasant drive, we joined the A28 just after Abbeville when again it was toll free, straight through Rouen and past the cows on the roundabout and then another little detour to save a few Euros and then back on our usual route.
Was it worth it? Well it was pleasant enough, it was a bit different, a bit shorter and we saved 28 Euros, oh and it took the same time as last year which was 8 hours.
The next challenge is to see what it does about the couple of Euro tolls around Tours and then avoid the "rip off" around Bordeaux, Too be continued.
Martin
We headed towards Brugge and then cut off a little corner that TomTom never did for us, we picked up the coast road for a while and then "she" aren't they all she's, said turn onto the D300 towards St Omer well that was certainly new to us, it's not as fast as the motorway as apart from anything there are a lot of roundabouts, but it does cut off the corner off and it was a pleasant drive, we joined the A28 just after Abbeville when again it was toll free, straight through Rouen and past the cows on the roundabout and then another little detour to save a few Euros and then back on our usual route.
Was it worth it? Well it was pleasant enough, it was a bit different, a bit shorter and we saved 28 Euros, oh and it took the same time as last year which was 8 hours.
The next challenge is to see what it does about the couple of Euro tolls around Tours and then avoid the "rip off" around Bordeaux, Too be continued.
Martin