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Originally Posted by backofbeyond (Post 225871)

French road signs are pretty easy to follow. Decide from the road atlas where you want to go, tell the sat nav and look out for signs like these:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...uick/signs.jpg

Blue for the motorways / autoroutes, green for the ordinary roads / RNs

As you have to pay for the autoroutes in France it's in the sign providers interest to direct you to them and it can be tricky at times to find your way out of some towns by ordinary road. That's where your sat nav will earn its money.

I wouldn't worry about Switzerland at this point. By the time you get there you'll have got the hang of things.

erm, except that in Switzerland, the signs are the other way round, Green for autoroutes & blue for other roads, very confusing & potentially expensive as the swiss auto routes require a "vignette" which is , I believe, annual...

other thing to be aware of in france, unless your map & satnav info are very recent you'll find that a lot of the "N" roads (Route Nationale) no longer exist... well the road does, but it's called the D 123 (or xyz or whatever) because they've de nationalised them all last year.

For example the RN6 that runs past my front door, linking Paris to Lyon, is now called tha D966... Where I am, & it's number changes in each departement that it goes through.

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Originally Posted by MooN (Post 226012)

other thing to be aware of in france, unless your map & satnav info are very recent you'll find that a lot of the "N" roads (Route Nationale) no longer exist... well the road does, but it's called the D 123 (or xyz or whatever) because they've de nationalised them all last year.

For example the RN6 that runs past my front door, linking Paris to Lyon, is now called tha D966... Where I am, & it's number changes in each departement that it goes through.

Really? Here in Brittany we still have "N" roads, for instance the road which goes from Brest to Paris, by via Laval, and Le Mans is still the RN12. But then again maybe Brittany is a special case, after all we don't have toll-roads.

Micheling Map of France

Hi

I have just purchased the France 2009 map (721) - so it is out there

Nigel

So did I :-)
Not sure to use that or use my sat nav ?

Well, I'm off to France again tomorrow (by car sadly!) and the sat nav will be stuck on the windscreen navigating us to the overnight stop in the depths of Lille. The Michelin map will be in the car somewhere but I'll only use it in the hotel to decide which scenic route south I'll programme into the sat nav for the next day.
The software can calculate how long any particular route will take and I've found it pretty accurate. It better be - we need to be in Grenoble on Saturday evening before the LeClerc supermarket in Echirolles closes or we're going hungry.