I've bought a map of France for this year's tour - Channel to the Med and have established that there's plenty of space left on the Bike Express for early August leaving me with two tasks:
Plotting a route and booking a place on the coach.
I've had a trawl around the Internet and while there's plenty of info about LEJOG and JOGLE, there's very little about Manche to the Med. I've got a sketchy route from the CTC web site but there doesn't seem to be a lot out there unless urc'ers know better......
I've established that I'll need alcool a brulee for my Trangia and I've got a Rough Guide to France for cyclists. I'm quite excited about the prospect of touring abroad but not as excited as my wife who's relishing the prospect of a mess free zone for a fortnight or so.
I'd quite like to see some spectacular things and have located Mont Ventoux which I might have a go at without panniers and the like. I've got around fourteen days in France to play with and want to savour the country.
Forgot to mention drop of and pick up points. I get dropped off at Calais and picked up at Montpellier. That might help with some suggestions.
That's very close to a "diagonale" -- those snooty French go one better again, and rather than a JOGLE/LEJOG pair have 9 pairs of end-to-ends, called diagonales. One runs from Dunkerque to Perpignan. If you can read French there is lots of info at http://diagonales.homelinux.net/adf/?menu=1
Even if you can't read French, there's buckets of info on route alternatives that would be relevant for you. The Dunkirk/Perpignan and Dunkirk/Menton (by the Italian border) routes will be relevant, though they end up respectively well west and east of Montpellier.
Do it inside four days and they'll give you a medal. Really!
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That's very close to a "diagonale" -- those snooty French go one better again, and rather than a JOGLE/LEJOG pair have 9 pairs of end-to-ends, called diagonales. One runs from Dunkerque to Perpignan. If you can read French there is lots of info at http://diagonales.homelinux.net/adf/?menu=1
I was struggling a tad until I rememebred the translation facility of Google. Ther's some howlers in the machine translation but it speeded up the digestion of the information on the site.
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Even if you can't read French, there's buckets of info on route alternatives that would be relevant for you. The Dunkirk/Perpignan and Dunkirk/Menton (by the Italian border) routes will be relevant, though they end up respectively well west and east of Montpellier.
Do it inside four days and they'll give you a medal. Really!
Four days. As if......
There's plenty to chew within that site and I'll be getting my map out and having a tentative plot tomorrow.
There's plenty to chew within that site and I'll be getting my map out and having a tentative plot tomorrow.
You have a million possibilities for routes. One theme would be to follow the Loire valley (pick it up at Orleans perhaps) as far as St Etienne, then take the Col de la Republique over to the Rhone valley. There are some spectacular hillside Cotes du Rhone vineyards where you arrive, and the route nationale on the west bank is less busy than it might be, as the A7 autoroute is parallel on the east bank (except weekends when the holiday traffic can be crazy).
On the other hand, you're probably best off picking a string of places you want to see, and visiting them in order...
Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147 [email hidden] http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html
Forgot to mention drop of and pick up points. I get dropped off at Calais and picked up at Montpellier. That might help with some suggestions.
That's very close to a "diagonale" -- those snooty French go one better again, and rather than a JOGLE/LEJOG pair have 9 pairs of end-to-ends, called diagonales. One runs from Dunkerque to Perpignan. If you can read French there is lots of info athttp://diagonales.homelinux.net/adf/?menu=1
Even if you can't read French, there's buckets of info on route alternatives that would be relevant for you. The Dunkirk/Perpignan and Dunkirk/Menton (by the Italian border) routes will be relevant, though they end up respectively well west and east of Montpellier.
Do it inside four days and they'll give you a medal. Really!
Four days? You deserve the yellow jersey and a Légion d'honneur .
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