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 .

Try this - it is a zip file of poi's including campsites throughout Europe.

http://www.johnwhitephotography.com/...ies_europe.zip

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.

I've done the Route Napoleon several times, it's a great road to ride, much cornering and beautiful mountain roads. If you got the time, also try the Gorges du Verdon, even more beautiful scenery and ridin'! On camping I can't help you out, but for hotels there's a lot of choice, from cheap to more expensive. Good luck and have fun!
Greetz, Hans.

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hi pete , we couldnt get booked onto the ferry until sat 13th june so we will miss out on the 6th june bit , found a web site for camping in france with all the gps points on so sorted their, this trip was only going to be arun to the millau bridge and back up but my mate craig wants to go all over the place as hes just got a brand new ktm adv R , so we have 6 days of riding allround france so with abit of luck we should get to do a fair bit , just got to sort my new bike out, pick it up thursday ,

dallas m8 will look that gorges du verdon and see if it it can be done aswell , cheers

Have a great trip!

Any chance of posting a link to the French campsites website you found please?

here you go all the camp sites you will ever need

http://www.eurocampings.co.uk/en/europe/

just click on the country and then the area , most have gps long & lat

Loads of useful info at http://www.ukgser.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=263 very good site that if you look around. Have info on just about anything you could imagine. You need to register in order to use the search function.

Me and a mate stopped at camping la citadel in Loches, south of Tours last year.



It was a nice site, grub, cold beers, pool and nice bogs on site. Think it was 15euro for the two of us.

edit to add, the hyperlink isn't easily visible in the text, so here it is- http://www.select-site.com/campsites...3&regionID=866

going to do that in june on the Ten with Missus

(give it time to load)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...24&ie=UTF8&z=6

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