Aix-en-Provence Travel Answers

just drive along the coastal route and do the French Riveria, Nice, Cannes. I did the same route years ago and finished up in Trieste. then we went back to Venice and caught a ferry to Corfu. Had a lot of fun venturing all the towns, cheers tommy x

Well if you want a really scenic route to get there: Take the A51 up to Mirabeau, then head through the Verdon park area to Riez, on to Castellane not forgetting to stop at the Gorges du Verdon.Then Castellane - Seranon - Greolieres - Roquesteron - St Martin du Var - Tourette - Cimiez and then the Corniche. Taking this route can be done easily in 2 days. If you want to do it quicker, as Tommy suggested above Aix - Take the A8 all the way there only 215 kms, around 2 hours then add half/hour to get into Monte Carlo.

absolutely try the Grande Corniche and have a stop at La Turbie out of MC get on the D6007 to linkup with the A8 towards France.You will under the tunnel de Monaco, nice ride . or you can continue on the more scenic D6007 to Nice. Having a car will let you see more at your leisure. You can check routes in www.viamichelin.com or buses on www.lignedazur.com hope it helps

Hi am glad to see Pauls answer here as its what I was going to write and suggest - the roads around the Gorges du Verdon and Castellane are beautiful - Moustiers is very lovely also and has easy parking near the entrance to the village. I have a few photos of my drive through there a few years ago but do need to add better ones. The Rough Guide to France is an excellent guide book for giving you this sort of info such as best routes and whats along them to aid in deciding when you are trying to maximise your journey/route choice...and where to stay and great snippets of history etc. Eze is a lovely town, with a good parking around at the base of the paths up to the village. have a page on that with pics of the stunning visit I enjoyed too.

I'll try to find the article I was reading but I think it said that the middle corniche was the best, the Grand Corniche is higher up and doesn't have the same views. It was foggy the day we drove it, the only foggy day of our trip! On the way between Aix and Monaco we took the toll road A8, just so you know it was about 20€ in tolls, maybe more as I wasn't really counting. A little over 2 hours between the two but I don't think that is what you are looking for. On the way back we took the middle corniche which passes by Eze and then we drove through Nice (lots of traffic) and stopped in Antibes before jumping back on A8 for the final stretch. That took us most of the afternoon, of course we stopped in Antibes for several hours. Stop in Eze on your way over, if you take the train I believe you get off almost at sea level, we climbed up to the top and it took about an hour. Nice can be saved for a train day from Monaco. I would recommend getting one of the local Michelin maps, the overall France one isn't nearly detailed enough for back roads and if we do another driving trip in France I will buy the ones for the areas I'm visiting. We always eventally got where we were going but we took a couple of wrong turns along the way.