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I'm also off to France soon, for the last nine days of May. A loop from Calais to Reims, Dijon, Clermont Ferrand, La Rochelle, St Nazaire, Brest, St Malo to home. Mainly spending time in the Massif Central doing canyon roads and white water rafting.
My tips: legal requirement to carry spare bulbs. I take a waterproof pouch with v5, mot, insurance cover note (inc euro breakdown numbers), E111 card (these are free and better to have than not imo).
Last year we did many more countries on our trip but it was the petrol stations in France that gave the most grief. Quite a few are unmanned and wouldn't accept any of our credit/debit cards. I've also had many a friend who've had cloning issues after using their's too. Beware. It's common sense but if you're riding with someone with a smaller fuel tank never be tempted to skip topping up your own tank (or vice versa), otherwise you may have to be doing twice the number of fuel stops or even worse a bit of syphoning - although this was only on scooter trips to be honest, the bandit has a good 40+ miles on reserve.
Are you camping or B&B'ing?