Hi Helgi

Best of luck with your trip.

I was looking at your route and see when you ride to southern France to Bayonne that this takes you on an autoroute. If you have to keep to this general route I'd take the coastal roads south of Bordeaux especially if you've no time frame...if you've a GPS then just enter in what routes to avoid...i.e. autorutes.

All great long surf beaches littered with campsites and with the Gulf Stream hitting here the water is warm for swimming.

If you're not obliged to stick to this route then I'd peel off from the coast and come across by Dax etc and head e.g.to Pau and pick up your original route to Spain again if so desired,riding over the Pyrenees e.g via Col de Pourtalet.

It would be a shame to miss out some great alpine type scenery and twisty roads IMO. Your route over into Spain via St Jean de Luz is autoroute also.

Roads here: e.g. A63 or an A64 is autoroute (You'll also see these as e.g. E5 or E9 etc )These will be marked in blue on a paper map.

Those marked with e.g. N9 or RN12 will be a a Route National(National Route) which could also have stretches of dual carriageway. These will be marked in red on a paper map.

After that then you'll have D roads,e.g. D928..these are departmental roads i.e. normal smaller local roads.


Anything else you would like to know from my area just ask.

All the best

Keith

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