Friday, March 30, 2012

Where to stop.

We are driving 555 miles from Calais to Cahors and need to find an overnight stop. Does anyone know what Chateauroux or Vierzon are like?




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What%26#39;s Bourges like anyone?




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Of course, exeman, a lot depends on when you start your journey from Calais, if you have to factor in the journey from Exeter to Calais as part of that day%26#39;s driving, and if you have a decent car. That said, you can cover huge distances in France very quickly - last May we started out from Calais at 8am and were checking into our first night%26#39;s stop south of Limoges by 3pm. While a lot also depends on traffic conditions around the the Paris Orbital, Cahors in one day would have been a doddle but we wanted to check out a hotel avec chambres in La Roche L%26#39;Abeille and we needed to vist a garden the next morning. Otherwise we would have driven straight to the Dordogne in one day. Easy-peasy.




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You might already have these, but there is a handy website http://www.tourisme.fr/recherche/e_index.htm which lets you find links to tourist information offices in France. I%26#39;ve never been, but Bourges looks worth a trip! If you%26#39;re looking for an overnight stop, a useful resource for hotels is http://www.logis-de-france.fr/uk/ which are more individual than the usual motorway junction type places.




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Bourges is a pleasant town. Not small - population about 100,000 at a guess - with plenty of good restaurants and hotels.



The cathedral is worth going out of your way to see And not only for the magnificent stained glass.




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