France Trip 2025

Neuromancer11 · Saturday at 7:49 PM

So following in from my previous post around traveling to France or Italy it’s finally come round, stayed at the Premier Inn in Dover last night and headed down to our first Aire stop near Vierzon, tomorrow heading to Millau for 5 nights at Sandaya Les Rivages then on to the alps, this will be our longest ever trip in the Cali, gonna be a hot one tonight still 31 degrees 21:44 local time

Dover sunset

Super calm crossing

Navigating the Paris ring road, almost got caught out by a 2m height restriction on a tunnel I wasn’t aware off! Could of been a disaster!

Made it to the Aire, beer and wine in hand

Saesneg Shaun · Saturday at 8:59 PM

Neuromancer11 said:
almost got caught out by a 2m height restriction on a tunnel I wasn’t aware off! Could of been a disaster!

I did get caught out by that tunnel. 8k long and 2.05m high but the cali did fit under. Scary though.
Great pics. Enjoy your trip

Neuromancer11 · Saturday at 9:06 PM

Saesneg Shaun said:
I did get caught out by that tunnel. 8k long and 2.05m high but the cali did fit under. Scary though.
Great pics. Enjoy your trip

Yeah had I not got the roof box on I might of chanced it! Good job I was paying attention and managed to take the exit at the last second

Rubinstein · Saturday at 11:15 PM

Saesneg Shaun said:
I did get caught out by that tunnel. 8k long and 2.05m high but the cali did fit under. Scary though.
Great pics. Enjoy your trip

Yep, I did that tunnel in my converted 6.1 on 20” rims, I’m still traumatised. I remember driving between the hanging signs because I thought my roof was going to come off ‍

Neuromancer11 · Sunday at 8:25 PM

All set up in Millau , gonna be a warm night!

Cali seems to be attracting lots of attention which I wasn’t expecting

Princess Doris · Sunday at 9:50 PM

We did the French Alps last month. You must visit Annecy. Really beautiful. And a train ride up Mont Blanc. Not all the way. But must have been 2,200 metres.
We also got surprised by the Paris tunnel. Too late to pull off. A white knuckle drive through. My god, it went on forever. Have a great time.

Neuromancer11 · Monday at 7:21 AM

We are heading over that way next, staying in Les Contamines-Montjoie for a couple of nights

Saesneg Shaun · Monday at 8:16 AM

Princess Doris said:
We did the French Alps last month. You must visit Annecy. Really beautiful. And a train ride up Mont Blanc. Not all the way. But must have been 2,200 metres.
We also got surprised by the Paris tunnel. Too late to pull off. A white knuckle drive through. My god, it went on forever. Have a great time.

Another vote for Annecy. If you are travelling in SE France then Chamonix is also a lovely place to visit.

Neuromancer11 · Monday at 5:22 PM

Les Contamines-Montjoie Is a stones through from chamonix, though with 2 young autistic kids I’m not hopefully on much sightseeing!

Neuromancer11 · Monday at 5:24 PM

Here’s a pic of the view from our pitch currently

And my very expensive “Private Sanitary “

Stu72 · Monday at 5:44 PM

What’s the name of the site with private sanitary ?

Neuromancer11 · 2025-07-16T18:21:41+0100

Stu72 said:
What’s the name of the site with private sanitary ?

it’s a Sandaya site, “Les Rivages” great for kids too

Neuromancer11 · 2025-07-16T18:24:52+0100

Visited the Viaduct today, it is a spectacular thing!

MJM Grand · 2025-07-16T20:59:16+0100

Neuromancer11 said:
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Looks amazing. How has it been sleeping in the heat? And what about mosquitos? We are heading south of Paris in August and ramping up preparations!

Neuromancer11 · 2025-07-16T21:35:12+0100

It’s been okay sleeping actually, cools down in the evening, I was quite worried about that myself, I bought a Shark Hydrogo just in case, luckily haven’t needed it, couldn’t quite justify an Ecoflow Wave3, though I’m sure that would do the trick! I guess to depends how luckly/unlucky you are with the weather, I know it was pushing 40 degrees a few weeks back, it got up to 32 today, but still down to 18 in the middle of the night

No issues with mosquitoes so far, again something I was concerned about, don’t want to tempt fate but no bites yet, currently sat out at 22:35 drinking Hoegaarden so all good :cheers