GeriatricWanderer
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Many travellers, myself included, mostly avoid using peage roads unless we just want to eat up the miles quickly.
However, there are times when, for a few Euros, it really makes sense to hop onto one to avoid some place or some bottleneck etc.
I would imagine most seasoned travellers of La France have such places in their little black books.
Care to share them?
Here's my contribution and probably the first one many travellers would encounter:
When arriving at Dunkerque or Calais and turning right along the A16 and heading beyond the horizon, you will be faced with a Peage warning sign when approaching J29. Don't turn off, stay on the A16, take a ticket at the booth and enjoy the view from the Viaduc de Quehen looking down into the valley where you would have had to drive had you turned off. (A rather tortuous downhill ride and then up again the other side.)
If you want to, you can then come off at the next junction (J28) after paying, I think €1.10 last time I used it.
And of course, the same on the homeward journey.
However, there are times when, for a few Euros, it really makes sense to hop onto one to avoid some place or some bottleneck etc.
I would imagine most seasoned travellers of La France have such places in their little black books.
Care to share them?
Here's my contribution and probably the first one many travellers would encounter:
When arriving at Dunkerque or Calais and turning right along the A16 and heading beyond the horizon, you will be faced with a Peage warning sign when approaching J29. Don't turn off, stay on the A16, take a ticket at the booth and enjoy the view from the Viaduc de Quehen looking down into the valley where you would have had to drive had you turned off. (A rather tortuous downhill ride and then up again the other side.)
If you want to, you can then come off at the next junction (J28) after paying, I think €1.10 last time I used it.
And of course, the same on the homeward journey.