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Travel Car: The most popular option as you will definitely need a car when you are down there (the nearest shop is a forty minute walk). From Calais it's 930 km, a 7-8 hour drive with no stops. Tolls are about 150 Euros. See motorway route and directions from Valence. See motorway route and directions from Valence Ferry: Train:The quickest, most relaxing way to travel, St.Pancras to Valence TGV is about £120 (there are special offers if you book early).and takes 6-8 hours. Easier to go via Lille rather than Paris as you don’t need to change stations. Valence is 45/55 minutes by car, usual car hire companies have offices at the station.(Avis, Europcar etc.) Visit Eurostar site Air:The nearest airports are Lyon and Grenoble, both around two hours drive from Escoulin. Easijet flies daily from Gatwick to Lyon and Grenoble from £29 one way. www.easijet.co.uk Motorway Route · Directions to the house · Hotels on The Way
Leave the autoroute at VALENCE SUD - rather a complicated roundabout but you are looking for the GAP/DIE road. Keep in the middle then right-hand lane for turn right to CREST on the D 111. Then down slope to roundabout and take final exit. ! Follow this road through Beauvallon and Montoison to CREST. There is a pizza restaurant in Montoison , ‘Les Cerisiers’, on right-hand side as you enter village - it also does takeaways. Often a welcome stop. Go straight into CREST, Centre Ville. As you enter CREST there is a bit of dual carriageway and the road bends right past a cemetery, over 2 lots of speed bumps. Pass the train station on your right and go straight on. Don't cross bridge but keep river on your right and continue to follow signs for Aouste/ Die, going straight on past the traffic lights. There is a market place on right with a bandstand and then the road narrows past cafe/bar, go straight on. Go through AOUSTE village centre avoiding flower tubs and straight across the roundabout as you leave the village, or follow by-pass round village to left. Follow signs for MIRABEL ET BLACONS and Die. Before you reach Blacons there is a cafe on left called LA BELLEVUE. Go left immediately taking the D70 for ROYANS, PARC DU VERCORS AND BEAUFORT-SUR-GERVANNE. Up the hill to BEAUFORT and turn right as you enter the village, just before the Cafe Le Midi. Pass a phone box on your right and follow the road round through the village and the sign for L'ESCOULIN. It's a very windy road with lots of hairpins - go carefully and don't turn off it. After about 15 mins you approach the village. Don’t take the left fork for the church. Look for the village sign for Escoulin. There is a large walled farm with green gates and railings on the left. Ahead is the village fountain (statue of a faun) Slow right down and cross over the tiny bridge almost immediately before it on your right. You will see a cluster of buildings with a large archway. Do not drive in. Follow the road round to the left up the hill for about 50 yards, pulling in to the right in front of the final building with blue shutters. You can park or unload here (pass stuff for kitchen and ground floor through kitchen and bathroom windows).If you have more than one car, park across the stream on the other side of the bridge in the village next to the fountain. Hotel de la Banniere, La Vielle Ferme Le Champ des Oiseaux L'Hôtel de la Poste Beaune Would you like to recommend a hotel? Then email us |
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