Featured Touring France 2020

Finally decided and booked this years bike trip in June.
Going to be a bit of a 'nostalgia' trip using the back roads on some routes that I last rode in 1990 and 1994!

Booked a 3 bed a/c mobile home on the Med coast for a week in June for less than £300

 

Thanks.
I'm not really much of a tourer really, I tend to prefer to get down the south asap and then base myself somewhere for a week or two with hot weather and good roads.

But with the extra time I have now, I thought I'd take a bit more time going down and go all nostalgic following the routes/stopping points we last used @ 30 years ago.
Then spend a week alternating between the beach and some twisty roads.

 

Will be over there 8th to 18th June.
Hoping it won't be quite as hot as it last June was when travelling home - 40c was a tad warm.....

 

Last year it was storms and flooding in the area about two weeks before I went.
Then by the time I went at the end of June, it was too hot to ride the bike with temps in the 38/40c area, so I had to sit at the beach or bar most of the week

Downside to retiring early is most of your mates are still working so can't make extra hols like this.
Plus side is you can take advantage of last minute offers etc so this year I'm rattling around in an 8 berth a/c mobile home at a beach in the South of France all week for next to nothing

 

Been going most years since 1989
Normally get good weather, been in June a few times but most of the time we go in early September.
But I always head South to the Med coast normally where the weather is better due to the microclimate.

Tried Spain last year but not impressed.
Was expensive to get to and from, roads are good in places but speed limits are all over the place*, was bored shitless stuck on the ferry for 24 hours.
*Only lasting memory from Spain was a speeding ticket, never had one all the years I've been going to France.
So generally I prefer France.

 

Shame they stopped the Motorail, that was an ideal way of getting down the South quickly and cheaply.

 

Since I took early retirement, I do the odd solo trip, but most of the time it's been trips with my wife on her Bonnie

 

Yup, sometimes we do cheat and take the bikes on the trailer to head south but most of the time it's been on the bikes.