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Do people generally book then, or are you worried cus it’s high season?
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I think this is what @6pt and @tricitybendix did, although they were in Spain.
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Most of our tours have been around that time of year. We went through peak-dutch-invasion-no-room-at-the-inn in the south of France at that time of year, and we never booked. The campsites were ludicrously accommodating in fitting us in (prioritising us over car family pitches because it'd be harder for us to ride on and find somewhere else, shuffling things around and giving us a weird little corner to fit in because we had a tiny footprint, that sort of thing). I reckon with some charmingly-rubbish french and a bit of hand waving you'll be fine.
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I've done this route in full, in July last year. It's really nice, we did it in 7 days but that was pushing it, 14 would be lovely. Good choice!
We wild camped every night, and I would strongly recommend it, there are so many amazing spots (by the Nantes-Brest canal, on the dunes outside La Rochelle, etc), if you're comfortable with it.
Two bike shops to recommend:
-Sardines a Velo in Nantes is a wicked shop, really friendly guys, lovely pizza next door too
-Cool Bike in Bordeux hooked me up with a cardboard box for my flight home, and were very helpful servicing my mate's gears
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I and @MrT4 have got 2 weeks off from 22nd July and have made tentative plans to do the Velodyssey route down the west coat of France, probably ending at Bordeaux.
Part of the logic for this is that we'll be down in Penzance for a couple of days beforehand, and thought it made sense to nip over on the Ferry from Plymouth to Roscoff, where the route starts.
I have just come to the realisation that this is like super-peak school holiday season, for both French and English.
It's looking like booking camp sites might be problematic, and I'm wondering if the whole thing is going to be a nightmare and we should look at somewhere else. We normally go touring end of Aug/first 2 weeks of Sept, which has been fine so far, but this might be pushing it.
Anyone any experience of France at this time?
If we just tip up at campsites and beg for a small spot (2 person tent) are we going to be sorely disappointed?
Cheers :)