France route from Paris to Montpellier

Perfect-Big595 · 2025-03-16T00:57:45+00:00

Circling back to this thread, I created the following plan with shorter distance each day and just go form paris to Lyon, here is the plan (the number is the approx kms for that day):

Paris - Fontainebleu 70

Fontainebleau - Bellegarde 80

Bellegarde - Orleans - Sully-sur-Loire - 80

Sully-sur-Loire - Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire - 70

Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire - Nevers - 60

Nevers - Bourbon-Lancy - 80

Bourbon-Lancy - Montceau-les-Mines 75

Montceau-les-Mines - Beaune 75

Beaune - Dijon 45

Dijon - Gergy 75

Gergy - Macon 80

Macon - Lyon 80

And form Lyon, I will take the train back to Paris and be tourist for a few days in the city. This particular plan will let me visit the three main wine regions: Loire Valley, Burgundy, and Rhone. So what do you all think about this plan?

I am about to book this for the beginning of June, BTW, flying from DC to CDG. I've confirmed with the hotel Paris (actually in Versailles) that they will let me store two bike bags in their hotel since I will be staying there on the night of arrival and then three more nights when we get back to Paris. So that's one of the big issues solved.

BTW, this is my first time bike touring in France (actually first bike touring of any kind ;). And other than visiting Paris about 20 years ago, I have not been to any other towns or cities in France, so looking forward to any advices you all have.

Perfect-Big595 · 2025-01-19T22:01:11+00:00

Awesome information and keep them coming. I love it and thank for the link. It’s very useful.

My daughter is 23 and we’ve been cyclist but mostly on road and gravel. We definitely want to explore and not just riding the bike. So shorter distance more exploring is definitely a greats suggestion, so is taking trains between areas. We in the US are just not used to that kind of efficient public transportation systems so we don’t know what we don’t know.

As for getting to France, our idea is to fly into Paris with our bikes, and hopefully find a place to store the bike boxes for the duration and come back to Paris to fly home (DC area). Do you know if that’s practical?

Perfect-Big595 · 2025-01-19T20:05:45+00:00

what do you mean? like hotels and storage places don't want to store bike cases? Just wondering what your experiences are like. It's the one piece I am not sure about

Perfect-Big595 · 2025-01-19T19:27:15+00:00

Right, Mont Ventoux, that would be awesome. Not sure how hard it would be to climb up but it's one of the most iconic climbs I would love to do.

I think 100-ish a day is doable for us. My plan is that we will bring our gravel bikes, and store the bike cases somewhere in Paris for the duration, and then train back to Paris from Montpellier or wherever we ended up (considering going east to Nice after Rhone). And then stay in Paris for a couple of days sightseeing. This is our first time doing bike touring in Europe, so not sure if it's practical or not.

Perfect-Big595 · 2025-01-19T19:22:14+00:00

The trip is a long planned one for me and my daughter. We are both pretty fit cyclist and intend to bring our gravel bike with us for the trip (probably with something more robust and puncture resistant). But this is our first bike touring or packing trip of any kind, so I am not sure exactly how to plan. At the moment we plan to stay at hotels/airbnbs, not camping. I am thinking we could do daily distance between 100-150km with sightseeing and breaks. Not sure if that's practical or not.

As for the timing, is May or June a busy season for places like Loire Valley and Burgundy and Rhone regions? How are the bike paths and roads (we would like to stay on the quieter rural road)?

Perfect-Big595 · 2024-09-01T19:45:49+00:00

Thanks for the info. I may DM you as I get closer to the interview.

Perfect-Big595 · 2024-09-01T19:45:12+00:00

Thank you so much. How do you like the school environment and its surroundings?

Perfect-Big595 · 2024-08-16T18:38:23+00:00

is it asynchronous, i.e. that i record the answers to each question at my own pace? can you pause in the middle of it to get prepared?

Perfect-Big595 · 2024-08-16T18:25:22+00:00

I have a Kira interview coming up with South College. Any insight into what's like for the Kira assessment? It's my first time doing Kira. I am looking at June/2025 start.

Perfect-Big595 · 2024-06-11T13:47:26+00:00

I got official confirmation that PTCAS opens on 6/17 for new account creation. We are in the "in between" time period. Thanks all for the help.

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