Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 9:38am
Hi Cliff
We drove the tunnel > Velez Malaga March last year We found the motorway from north east Spain (crossing near Bayonne) via Madrid & Granada to be interesting & would happily travel that route again.
Through France we took the western motorways, via Rouen, rather than Paris. Rouen can be a bottleneck, but better than Paris in my opinion. Road Tolls in France add up. We used to enjoy driving the N roads in France & we spent half a day off motorway, but with the 50mph limits it was tedious
Travelling from Yorkshire we stopped near the tunnel in Kent, then Poitiers. The hotel in Poitiers was a mistake, hotel itself was fine but in the old town, with access via narrow one way streets, & sat nav telling us to go where we could not go. Do another circuit & repeat. Not great after a days driving. Old town itself was great.
Third night, we found a Hotel Rural, in a small village near Burgos, which was great, charmingly old, and inexpensive. Communicated by sign language.
Enjoy planning & driving your trip. Coincidentally, we plan (Covid permitting) to drive to CDS in September, via a week in the Dordogne