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[GerTee]

Afternoon Peeps, we have an opportunity to get away next March on Le Continent as 'Boomerang Kid' is once again coming home for a wee while, so can look after our cat.
Question is...do we get a ferry to Bilbao/Santander or drive the west coast of France? Main concern for us is the weather that time of year and having done San Sebastián over the Pyrenees in June this year we don't want to go over anything higher than that. Not too concerned about diesel costs and happy to spend a week or two getting into Spain.

All help greatfully received

 

[Madcaravanner]

??? take the cat with you - - @Rekerley does - - we have no pets anymore so

BUT we went to Pitou Charente in March and stayed until the end of May we arrived to 30°C in the day got a little chilly at night but by the middle of April the night time was quite warm
Want a little proof ?? 5th April this year Montendre Chateau

 

[normanandsue]

Have driven through France to Spain in January twice and by ferry once. If you have the time and don't mind a long drive then driving through France would be my choice after all that's why we bought a motorhome, but if you are time constrained and your aim is Spain the take the ferry.

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[Abacist]

I don't fancy the bay of biscay in winter on a ferry - I'd drive!

 

[Two on Tour]

We drove down through France to Spain last year and came back in September on the ferry Bilbao to Portsmouth.
No rush getting there so we enjoyed a slow drive down, but the ferry back was 29 hour of sheer boredom. By all acconts talking to regulars sailing the route, our crossing way as smooth as a mill pond, but believe me it did not feel like that to us as we were going across the bay of Biscay. Some had travelled down to Spain on the ferry earlier in the year on a rough crossing and said that motorhomes had been damaged due to the rough seas. Never again for us the ferry crossing, a nice drive through the French countryside both ways for us from now on.