Driving Costa Calida to Calais

Hi Peter - we are doing Los Narejos to Accous (just over the French border) on day 1 - Accous to Ruaudin (just south of Le Mans) on day 2 and up to Calais for our third night.  Catching shuttle late morning and driving up to York on day 4.  Hope this helps.

go to www.viamichelin.com 

type in your starting point and destination

there you get options which route to take incl. price of toll and fuel

you also can search for NON toll roads. 

Thank you very much for your reply.Sounds like a nice option.

Fingers crossed the travel restrictions are relaxed in time.

I hope you enjoy the trip.

Since AP 7 from Alicante is free, except silly small charge to get in to AP7, I'm always going towards Valencia to take A23 towards Zaragoza. Taking me up to 10 hours at most to get to Pau, even much quicker that since Monrepos crossing has been finished, where I can break my journey in half. If I push just over two hours more using toll A65, I would stop in Bordeaux overnight.  Next day another 10 hours to Calais using N10 or toll A10 towards Tours after Tours aiming to Chartres, Dreux, and Rouen.You can also take toll A28 to Rouen.  After Rouen is couple of hours to Calais A27 and A16 taking small toll section before Boulogne, don't try to avoid that as around this area free road is awful and it's only over €8 for the car . Watch out for those mobile speed cameras in France. They looks like three angle grey small trailer .

Obviously you can plan and stop more often, plenty hotels on the route.

Thank you very much for your reply. Useful to know about.

Best regards.

Thank you so much for your reply.

It seems there are lots of options.

Will give it some thought and may even take an extra night to keep the driving days shorter.

Thanks again.

I should mention my Pau version involving quite narrow Pyrenees roads in France but I loving it. But up to Zaragoza it's pure motorways and quite low traffic. 

To keep on motorway is better option to head towards San Sebastian ( Donostia)  from Zaragoza and then Bordeaux. Few toll sections there in Spain and France, still mountainous roads but largely avoiding ,, proper" mountains. 

Dilys, you have found out a very valuable thing: you now know that you should completely ignore anything whoever told you this says from now on. Absolutely ridiculous, and a good example of engaging the mouth before the brain....

Yes - Guardia civil confirmed exactly what you said.  Phew!!!