how did you go planning a route like that.will you be using satnav or maps to find your way .and what about camping are there loads of sites en route. questions questions
but i got to ask.i would be totally useless at planning something like that.
Planning can appear daunting the first time but my fool proof method is, pick the roads/ places you would like to see (Huez/ Bonnett/ Ventoux etc) then join the dots on what look like interesting roads, decide how far/ hard you want each days traveling to be and then look for a town near that distance. Once you have sorted your priorities factor in your end point and look for things to do and see along the route there 'till you have filled your time.
So for this trip I have set myself 50 miles a day with a 3 day buffer, as this is my first time on a bike, I guess I will either be struggling to make my coach connection and have to miss the col de tourmalet, or be left riding round Lourdes for a week
I will be taking a Bryton with the route loaded on but failing recharging then i will also have a comprehensive route list and probably print out reasonable scale maps from autoroute and take a couple of pages from an atlas in case I get totally lost.
AFAIK most towns/areas have at least a municipal camp site. Should be reasonably quiet as the French tend to holiday in August and our schools won't have broken up. Though of course there is Bastille day on the 14th. The only other imponderable is the TdeF which may catch up with me around stage 13. Failing all else then I will have to wild camp, or delve deep for a Chambre d'hotes, from past experience it is always possible to find a room in the Alps, hopefully the Camargue etc will be the same.
At the moment my biggest worry is how much gear to take, previously I have toured in the car and managed to fill the boot on a 2 week tour without a tent/stove/sleeping bag etc
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