 Poster: A snowHead
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I suppose I just have to get my head around it and pay the tolls and drive straight to the slopes. I have to say that we drove to Brittany in the summer and you can’t grumble about the French roads. I much prefer them to the English motorways! There doesn’t seem to be the mad racing drivers, tailgaters, undertakers and queues that we get here in England.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It's that main chunk of the journey from north french coast to the alps that makes it difficult to avoid. As others have posted, ways round it usually incur some other costs of time, fuel etc. Just different ways of cutting the same problem.
Some friends took their T5 camper two seasons ago with us to Ste Foy ( just a little further on from LP) then last year took flights plus car hire to get a comparison (family of 4) but by far preferred the driven trip mainly as you can just please yourself schedule wise.
They're going back to T5 this year.
I feel it's a nice adventure driving, doesn't suit everyone but for some it's the best way to go. Hope you have a good holiday.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Just beware one thing...there are speed cameras a plenty on the RN roads now. Also unlike the UK there are less visual clues or repeat signs for the speed limit. Far too easy to build up speed on an open stretch and get a flash.
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And be aware that if you drive into anywhere with a name - regardless of how small and deserted and shuttered up it is - the speed limit is 50kph - and there will not always be any signs.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I discovered that one day - the resulting fine, exacted by a French policeman sitting eating his sandwiches in the great empty expanse of what had once been a very small village, as I hurtled through at all of 42 mph, more than cancelled out the savings on tolls. 
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@CaravanSkier, with a camper van, fuel consumption can be much higher at autoroute speeds. I actually get better mpg from my van in moving urban traffic than I do at 60mph on A roads.
Check vehicle class, I found that the tolls for my 3 tonne L1H1 Ducato combi van will be 50% higher than a car for our trip in March.
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