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coxwain
iam off to france in june , going newcastle-amsterdam by ferry then off in to france got afew routes on the list going to do the D-Day beaches then down to the millau bridge and then to Cannes up the N85 (route napoleon) up grenoble and back to amsterdam its about 2500 miles round trip has anybody done the route napoleon and any good camp sites that you stayed at .
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we did the D-day beaches last year, had a great trip. Are you going for the 6th June? thats when we went and it really made the trip - all the WW2 vehicles everywhere and the aircraft.
we stayed one night at a campsite east of Saint-Mere-Eglise right next to Utah beach at a place called Ravenouville-Plage. Don't camp there. However the Crisbecq Battery at Saint-Marcouf is well worth a visit.
Our next two nights were here
http://www.chateau-martragny.com/index.htm
a nice campsite site with a decent restaurant and well located for touring the other landing beaches and other stuff. you can camp or stay B&B in the chateau.
overall we found that the beaches themselves were less interesting than the other stuff, there's no shortage of things to see.