Love these trips....whetting the appetite as this time next week we will be driving all the way down from London to the south of France, via the A75 (1200kms) for the summer holidays! That motorway is the most beautiful in Europe….millau is great! If you travel on a Sunday, there are no lorries on the road. Calais, Rouen, Chartres, Clement Ferrand to Beziers is our way, some of those autoroutes are free, the A7 travelling east of Paris is busy and expensive.
I've done the route before many years ago and the bit over the Massif Central and Clermont Ferrand was interesting- the sense of being at quite a high altitude but relatively flat on the plateau very memorable.
I was thinking the same thing! LOL! Nerves of steel handling Harry's hard driving and devotion for being dropped off on the side of the road to film drive pasts. Huzzah to Mrs. Metcalfe!
Paper maps are brilliant for getting a birds eye view of what to look for, since electronic maps don't usually show nearly enough detail zoomed out. Lovely trip as always! Thank you for bringing us along.
Yes I'm a pretty geeky sort of chap and love my tech, but I have a huge collection of proper maps some going back to 1909. I am an OS fan but the IGN and Michelin Maps are pretty good, particularly if your covering big distances.
Sat Nav is fine for guiding you to where you're going...Paper maps are awesome for looking at and seeing roads, attractions etc..or just throwing a random pin at and deciding what destination you're putting in the sat-nav !!
As someone who lives in Perth Western Australia. Also known as the most isolated capital city in the world. Can only dream about going for drives like this.. In the same distance, I would be in the middle of the outback looking at red dirt. The road, scenery & the history of Europe is just something stunning to see
You just can’t beat the Michelin road maps! I sometimes find myself just opening them up to study them when I’m in my living room instead of turning on the tv! … haha
Well, as I have stated today, Harry first recommended it to me in one of his videos. It was so much better than Google maps. Maybe he has gone over to the dark side :) I can guarantee, he will be back.
I went to Millau with my sceptical family because of Top Gear, and they were completely won over by the beauty of the bridge and the area around it. An interesting detail: There are no structural or topographical reasons for the curve of the bridge: It´s pure aesthetics: Foster wantetd you to see all the pillars as you go over it... And it´s magical.
@Will Harris I sort of agree, but the other bridges the engineer has been involved with are not nearly as beautiful. Here he is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Virlogeux
Did 2000 miles in my F Type through France a month ago, Harry, so this little video bought back some great memories. Don’t stop filming your road trips 😁
Nah, not here @@iainbagnall4825 , more petrol money falls out of Metcalfe's pyjamas in the morning, than you or I could siphon into our cars' tanks, in a month. I think the sprogs will always have plenty of artisan foodstuffs from the farmers markets.
Fantastic! We have a trip planned to Millau and the Aveyron region as soon as harvest is over here in the Saskatchewan Prairies. Visits to France have always been basically to family - and rushed - but family are now no longer with us. I’m now 70 so our trip this time will be sort of open ended and much more leisurely. All I need is for a good crop and prices to hold where they are, then I will push the boat out and hire a decent car, not the usual mid range hatchback thing. Flying into Toulouse will also be a first for us. Keep the videos coming - on both cars and farming. My appetite is well and truly whetted for our trip, 5 years since our last one.
What a life this chap and family have..Another amazing episode . I remember during the mid 1970`s on a package tour,Page & Moy to the Monaco Grand Prix. Thinking on the coach with other travellers how nice it would be doing the trip in an E type job or similar.. Never happened for me but Bon Chance to them for getting there in life.
2019, I proposed to my wife on an French circular road trip from Caen, Tours, Dordogne (Bergerac, the proposal), Med Coast at Beziers, Toulon, Cannes, Nice, Italy (via your autostrada) then back to do Route Napoleon and home. All in our V6S FType. Showing my wife this tonight made her evening and mine. Great memories. She also does the filming. Thanks Harry.
I did a similar route from Caan , via Le Mans , down to a place called Montreal ( no not Canada! ! ) near Carcassonne . It was year 2000 , on holiday with my family in Alfa Romeo 75 3litre . Drove all the way down . We did not see the Viaduct on the way there, but took an alternative route back, drove under it through a deep valley. Beautiful scenery down there . High quality road surfaces, whether on main roads or going up mountains on side roads. Happy days . Thanks for bringing back the memories , if unintentionally!
Now you have said that, maybe not the very same bridge. I remember on the way down , we came off some Autoroute near Souillac , and they were in the process of extending the route down to Cahors, so we had to take the N9 standard road only to encounter a horrific bottle neck of traffic-held us up possibly hour or more, in scorching heat too. So on return wanted to avoid all that and took minor roads, coming across this incredible gorge with river below, and this bridge so high up above our road and river running alongside, quite breathtaking. I’ve been looking at my original 1997 Michelin Europe map that I took with me at the time, to try and retrace my route back! No CarPlay , Tom Tom , Co -pilot , sat nav system used back then !
I was impressed by the Millau Viaduct , too ... but even more by the Pont du Gard Aqueduct which was not far away from your route. Gave me a real impression of what Romans were capable of . The bridge is still standing after 2000 years ... At sunset possibly one of the most beautiful bridges I've ever seen .
The Millau viaduct was on our list pre-covid and finally two years later we made it and to the Tarn gorge, great road up to Point Sublime, fantastic destinations 😎
I've driven all of these roads on the way down to my villa in Spain over many years, and ironically spent most of 2019 working near the circuit Paul Ricard very close to the end destination. It's a beautiful part of the world. Never been lucky enough to own a car like this but I enjoy the journey whatever I'm driving. I'm on my way back down again next month in my trusty old Mercedes E wagon...can't wait :)
What a beautiful area to drive through. The scenery and that bridge are absolutely stunning. I'm now seriously considering taking my Triumph on a similar trip in this area for my next holiday.
Just found this video after watching your 2022 round up episode. Don’t fall into the RUclips algorithm trap Harry, most of your content pops up on my Home Screen to watch but this one didn’t! Love this sort of content, especially in the depths of winter contemplating summer road trips for the summer ahead. Keep up the great work, look forward to more content like this in 2023
Such lovely roads in France.Brought back memories of 25 years ago.Taking my 205 GTI 1.9 on the Night ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe travelling via Rouen ,Le Mans,Tour .through the mountains near St Etienne on to La Lavendu, Bormes along the coast to St Topez in the evening. Hope one day to be able to do again when I retire,so thank you for reminding me of some happy times.
I’m just back today from an Scotland - south France - Italian riviera - alps and back . We ended up on the route napoleon not quite the same in a campervan but I still enjoyed it The hassle passengers are experiencing at airports just now , I think a road trip is the only way to do it !
I do a lot of WWI battlefield trips from the coast down to Switzerland. I always enjoying driving over the Vosges and staying in Colmar near to the Swiss and German borders. One of my favourite drives was from the German speaking area in Switzerland, down through the Italian speaking area and then into Italy. Some lovely roads and lots of lakes and tunnels.
Just love your road trips Harry, especially to the South of France. You always seem to take similar routes to me and often the same hotels. The Mercure in Figeac is my go to hotel in this area. I recommend it to any ‘road tripper’ as it is an amazing hotel and one of very few with plenty of secure parking. My weapon of choice for the past 5 years has been a 981 Spyder, another 😊brilliant car for such trips. Keep ‘em coming Harry 👏
When we did the same thing pre Covid I was proudly telling French staff in hotels en route we were going to see the Meal-ow viaduct and nobody had a clue what I was talking about. When I discovered it’s called Mee-oh I realised why! Great to see you made it to that fantastic location Harry it really is spectacular, thank you.
love these road trip videos! you never see Harry’s wife in any of his videos. perhaps she’s shy. his son Charley is often featured during his farm videos, but never the wife. also, I’d love to see the House! considering his car collection, I’d imagine his home would be incredible as well!
Crumbs ... that brought back some memories. Really only one place hadn't changed much since I was there - the Gorges du Tarn. Under somehat different circumstances; I was holidaying with my folks - Mum, Dad and my sister - just over 50 years ago! 😁The overhanging rockface and tunnels were - and clearly still are - amazing. The car I was in at the time .... Austin 1800 'Land crab'. The hydrolastic suspension was brilliant over any bad road surfaces and it carried 4, plus a boot groaning with luggage, in relative comfort. 😀
Thanks for taking us along Harry! What a treat. The Cévennes and gorges of the Tarn are a sublime escape which we've been sadly unable to reach this year, so the chance to take even this brief tour with you is a delicious reminder. Très bon!
Vive la France! We did those kinds of rural French roads a few times, mostly in the pre-GPS era. Even with Michelin paper maps at a detailed level, I turned a bit early and ended in an orchard and I turned a bit late on another road trip and ended in a wheat field. Just relatively pleasant memories now. THANK YOU for reminding us what la France Profound is!
Hey Harry, an update and a thank you. You introduced me to Michelin maps, (rather than those thick spiral bound things), how come I didn’t realise how brilliant they were before? You showed me how to easily and cheaply buy a Tag for French motorways from Eurotunnel, it will save my wife from climbing half out of the window of the SL to reach the slot to feed an unknown (till you get there) amount of Euros into the Peage. Now you’ve shown me the alternative route from Millau to the Côte d’Azur. We should be in Millau again a week on Sunday en route to St Maxime and I’ll be taking the D907 and D9 onwards to the south east. Thank you Sir. TonyS
We had many enjoyable trips around the Gorges Du Verdon which is about an hour and a half north of Saint-Tropez (and due north of Draguignan). The road snakes around the clear blue glacial water in the lake and it's magical. It's worth considering which way round to drive it though, depending on if you are driving a right-hand or left-hand drive car! Thanks again for the great content Harry.
Great video. Added CarPlay to my F-type too..same type of thing. Voice is there if you set it to allow "hey siri" in your phone.... text, mail, weather, traffic, apps, music...."hey siri....play XXXX music....(and it does)" I find no need to use the other F-type stuff once it is all set up...CarPlay does 99.9999999% of my stuff now. 11/10 for me.
Lovely video as always.Thank you Harry. My wife and I took our 916 series Alfa Spider 2.0 TS through that area 7 years ago on the way back from Bonnieux in Provence. The hotel we stayed at in Gordes was where the Ferrari Cub of Provence hold their AGM. Our little spider still turned heads !
I love France. I remember approaching Rocamadour late one evening about twenty years ago and then taking a turn off up a single track lane for several miles before arriving at an absolutely exquisite guest house. Fabulous memory. So much of France is like a tourist attraction and the French know it and they really look after it.
I love your trip videos also. Thank you for the Apple CarPlay review. I’ve been considering adding it to an older Jaguar myself and your comments are very helpful.
Did that area (D907) in southern France a few months ago on a road trip with my son. France has some great driving roads…thoroughly enjoyed the trip…and this video!
Love this: The fast-slow-fast pace, mixing some fun, spirited driving with taking in some spectacular sights, including the Millau Viaduct, which had me scurrying to Wikipedia for a deeper dive (and catch up with the rest of Foster's work, much of which I knew of, some of which I didn't). Sorry to hear your plans with the Lotus fell through, but it looks (and sounds!) like the Jag largely made up for it.
Nice trip again. I installed the same Car Navigation kit, 2 years ago in my F-Type 2014 3.0 S. it works lovely but it is not always connecting automatically. When near the car, Bluetooth connection, car unlocked, then walk to far from the car and coming back, the connection can’t reconnect again. Lock the car, walk away far enough, then get in and it will connect. But, it’s a wonderful update. Oh, bye the way… when I was searching for a kit like this, I could only find workshops in the UK. In the Netherlands only 1… and fortunately only 5 km from home!!! 😁
Harry, many thanks for sharing this road trip video in France. Beautiful scenery, lovely weather & the car's not bad either. However, the stand out for me was the Millau Viaduct........what a stunning design and I appreciate the unusual view you showed us of the tall, elegant columns.👍👍
Driving to the Black Sea in a couple weeks from Oxford. 14 different countries in 3 weeks. Love your videos Harry, inspire me to do more road trips (not that I need an excuse!).
I'll never have the opportunity to travel on such roads so thanks for another great video trip away Harry. France is such a beautiful country, not so conjested as our when you get out of the cities and big towns.
Back in the days before the Viaduct was built, we ALL used to go south during the summer using the lower road, I mean, we had no choice. It was traffic jam for a solid hour at least, Paris was in vacation+all the Dutch and Belgians envying the South of France too ! It's so much better now, because If I go south I can enjoy the road in the valley ^^
Another stunning video, great views, scenic roads and the Project 7 sounds wonderful as she overtakes slower traffic. The French tourist board should use your videos to promote driving holidays in France. Respect to your wife for getting some fantastic footage on these trips!
Hey Harry, I had a similar system fitted to my BMW i3 and love it! It's definitely not perfect and has its glitches once in a while, but overall super glad such a system exists. Looks great in your car, and I'm glad you included it in the video.
Snap!… we left same day but on euro tunnel. Just back from 2500 mile road trip in Ferrari taking in The Fuckapass Switzerland into Italy; simply stunning.😎 Top tip in France… don’t worry about being ripped off on auto routes for fuel…. Pricing was near identical to local supermarkets (unlike punitive U.K. pricing 😡) plus all the regular rest areas are clean and well manicured for picnics 👍
What a brilliant road trip. Wife and I rode our motorbikes through the Gorge du Tarn in 2019. The road follows the river with cliffs towering either side. Much better than actually going over the bridge.
Here's a different road trip idea for you Harry - In May 2018 we did Las Vegas to Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Moab, Telluride, Aspen, over Independence pass to Manitou Springs (for Pikes Peak but it was shut!), Denver, Estes Park, Rapid City, Sheridan, Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, Salt Lake City, Moab (again), Bryce Canyon, Zion and back to Las Vegas. 4500 miles in 3 weeks. Our poor little Mitsubishi hire car looked very tired by the end but we had the most amazing time! Highly recommended. Love your trips to France. We're off down to Perpignan in September!
Florac to Ste Enimie one of my favourite roads, driven it many times - camped in the gorge out the back of a TD5 90, spent a week in a gite on the plateau with a Mini Clubvan and best of all a couple of days with my Elise which was purpose built for just this sort of driving.
Felicidades Sr.Metcalfe y su Sra invisible detrás de cámaras por estas fabulosas vistas y mostrar sus paseos por Europa y conducir como debe de ser sus joyas automotrices de verdad un privilegio ver su contenido de su canal .,simplemente espectacular great job Herry
As for the Apple Carplay retrofit, I had something similar done in my car to get Android Auto. Initially there was a Bluetooth issue as well. In order to fix it the shop disabled Bluetooth voice calls on the retrofit box, and allowed voice calls to go through the car's original Bluetooth system. The boxes and systems may differ between cars, but it may be worth exploring.
Harry, back in the summer 2016 I drove from Montpellier and drove past the Milau viaduct. I also saw the gorges you mention. Spectacular. We were driving an X5 3.0 diesel, so not sporty at all - but still a great trip.
I always enjoy hearing the P7 getting on down the road - if a noise could tear spacetime apart, I always imagine it would sound like that! Getting on for 5 years ago, a friend and I had the idea of taking the F-Type SVR and an iPace down to Millau, going via autoroute in one direction and avoiding them in the other, with the specific aim of seeing which was the better GT, and maybe doing a press story about the best of the 'old' versus the incoming 'new' ways of driving cars. The old road under the Viaduct was going to be the turn-around point. Sadly, things did not go as planned and the trip never got off the starting blocks. Having seen your run in this video, it's not an opportunity to be missed lightly! Once I was well enough again to think of such things, I had neither the finance or access to the vehicles.
Harry, road trip/ maps, Apple Car Play, Project 7 and France... Gotta love it... And the real star of the show Mrs M... When there r miles to consume bring on a V8. Harry's like a kid in a lolly shop.
Harry!!! We just love your films especially the road trips. But this one brought back happy memories of driving those amazing routes through the gorges and mountains around Milau in the early 1990s before the bridge was built, in my Peugeot 205 GTi . Perfect car for those twisting routes through the mountains. Happy days!! Thanks for taking us with you!! All the best😁❤ Lee and Caroline
I really do like these road trips Harry, keep doing them. I'd love to see you do a big trip out to Georgia (though perhaps not through Russia) Its actually such a beautiful place.
Great vid again Harry 👍🏼 I actually went back to watch this after your Hcoty round up. The P7 colour 😍 when are reading the map at Le Mans, I couldn't believe how much flake it has! I wish my other half was as chilled and accommodating as Mrs Metcalfe! 😂
Love these trips....whetting the appetite as this time next week we will be driving all the way down from London to the south of France, via the A75 (1200kms) for the summer holidays! That motorway is the most beautiful in Europe….millau is great! If you travel on a Sunday, there are no lorries on the road. Calais, Rouen, Chartres, Clement Ferrand to Beziers is our way, some of those autoroutes are free, the A7 travelling east of Paris is busy and expensive.
Sounds wonderful. A bit jealous. 🤭
*Clermont-Ferrand in case someone wants to go the same way! 😅
I've done the route before many years ago and the bit over the Massif Central and Clermont Ferrand was interesting- the sense of being at quite a high altitude but relatively flat on the plateau very memorable.
@@Peregrine-qp4fq yep for some of the Auvergne the motorway is at 1000m above sea level.
Yes and toll free
Big thanks to the missus for putting up with all this and letting us enjoy the journey too.
I love Harry road trips with his invisible wife.
She probably has better curves than the Jag!
@@johnnewman3316 🤔
we would all love one of them..
This doesn't fit Harry's Code.
Her in doors, as Arthur Daley would put it .
Love a Harry's garage road trip video. A big thanks to Mrs.M as well for filming them, truly an unsung hero in the production of these great videos.
I was thinking the same thing! LOL! Nerves of steel handling Harry's hard driving and devotion for being dropped off on the side of the road to film drive pasts. Huzzah to Mrs. Metcalfe!
I now prefer Harry going to the South of France in a Project 7 in stead of going there myself
Sundays are just fantastic when a Harry video drops . No click bait , no hype just Harry enjoying life and being factual .
his road trips are the best on utube
Harry Metcalfe living the dream with good friends, a great wife, and memorable road trips. Thanks for taking us along.
Paper maps are brilliant for getting a birds eye view of what to look for, since electronic maps don't usually show nearly enough detail zoomed out. Lovely trip as always! Thank you for bringing us along.
Yes I'm a pretty geeky sort of chap and love my tech, but I have a huge collection of proper maps some going back to 1909. I am an OS fan but the IGN and Michelin Maps are pretty good, particularly if your covering big distances.
Sat Nav is fine for guiding you to where you're going...Paper maps are awesome for looking at and seeing roads, attractions etc..or just throwing a random pin at and deciding what destination you're putting in the sat-nav !!
As someone who lives in Perth Western Australia. Also known as the most isolated capital city in the world.
Can only dream about going for drives like this.. In the same distance, I would be in the middle of the outback looking at red dirt.
The road, scenery & the history of Europe is just something stunning to see
i live in Newcastle, NSW - it’s not much different here!
The myriad of things one can learn from a single video by Mr.Metcalfe is just something else. Absolutely brilliant.
You just can’t beat the Michelin road maps! I sometimes find myself just opening them up to study them when I’m in my living room instead of turning on the tv! … haha
Same here. It's exciting to build possibilities!
Me too!
Well, as I have stated today, Harry first recommended it to me in one of his videos. It was so much better than Google maps. Maybe he has gone over to the dark side :) I can guarantee, he will be back.
Harry is and has always been a class act. Twenty seven minutes just went by and I was sorry the video ended. Cars, bikes, Harry's got it all!
The Millau bridge is amazing. The shot of how spindly the towers look with the road deck up in the sky is just mind boggling.
I went to Millau with my sceptical family because of Top Gear, and they were completely won over by the beauty of the bridge and the area around it. An interesting detail: There are no structural or topographical reasons for the curve of the bridge: It´s pure aesthetics: Foster wantetd you to see all the pillars as you go over it... And it´s magical.
@Will Harris I sort of agree, but the other bridges the engineer has been involved with are not nearly as beautiful. Here he is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Virlogeux
Did 2000 miles in my F Type through France a month ago, Harry, so this little video bought back some great memories. Don’t stop filming your road trips 😁
Normal people: Petrol is expensive, we will have to drive less.
Jag owners: Sorry kids, bread and water for dinner again. The Jag is thirsty.
Nah, not here @@iainbagnall4825 , more petrol money falls out of Metcalfe's pyjamas in the morning, than you or I could siphon into our cars' tanks, in a month.
I think the sprogs will always have plenty of artisan foodstuffs from the farmers markets.
Thank god for these videos, its an escape from the real world and we all need that now.
Harrys a legend for sharing these great experiences.
Fantastic!
We have a trip planned to Millau and the Aveyron region as soon as harvest is over here in the Saskatchewan Prairies.
Visits to France have always been basically to family - and rushed - but family are now no longer with us. I’m now 70 so our trip this time will be sort of open ended and much more leisurely.
All I need is for a good crop and prices to hold where they are, then I will push the boat out and hire a decent car, not the usual mid range hatchback thing. Flying into Toulouse will also be a first for us.
Keep the videos coming - on both cars and farming.
My appetite is well and truly whetted for our trip, 5 years since our last one.
What a life this chap and family have..Another amazing episode .
I remember during the mid 1970`s on a package tour,Page & Moy to the Monaco Grand Prix. Thinking on the coach with other travellers how nice it would be doing the trip in an E type job or similar..
Never happened for me but Bon Chance to them for getting there in life.
2019, I proposed to my wife on an French circular road trip from Caen, Tours, Dordogne (Bergerac, the proposal), Med Coast at Beziers, Toulon, Cannes, Nice, Italy (via your autostrada) then back to do Route Napoleon and home. All in our V6S FType. Showing my wife this tonight made her evening and mine. Great memories. She also does the filming. Thanks Harry.
I would happily find all of Harry’s holidays just for the content it brings.
Still the best motoring journalist of the RUclips era.
I did a similar route from Caan , via Le Mans , down to a place called Montreal ( no not Canada! ! ) near Carcassonne . It was year 2000 , on holiday with my family in Alfa Romeo 75 3litre . Drove all the way down . We did not see the Viaduct on the way there, but took an alternative route back, drove under it through a deep valley. Beautiful scenery down there . High quality road surfaces, whether on main roads or going up mountains on side roads. Happy days . Thanks for bringing back the memories , if unintentionally!
Millau viaduct got built from 2001
@@etbadaboum Maybe they were on holiday for more than a year? 😀😀😀
Now you have said that, maybe not the very same bridge. I remember on the way down , we came off some Autoroute near Souillac , and they were in the process of extending the route down to Cahors, so we had to take the N9 standard road only to encounter a horrific bottle neck of traffic-held us up possibly hour or more, in scorching heat too. So on return wanted to avoid all that and took minor roads, coming across this incredible gorge with river below, and this bridge so high up above our road and river running alongside, quite breathtaking. I’ve been looking at my original 1997 Michelin Europe map that I took with me at the time, to try and retrace my route back! No CarPlay , Tom Tom , Co -pilot , sat nav system used back then !
I was impressed by the Millau Viaduct , too ... but even more by the Pont du Gard Aqueduct which was not far away from your route. Gave me a real impression of what Romans were capable of . The bridge is still standing after 2000 years ... At sunset possibly one of the most beautiful bridges I've ever seen .
Just love these trips, paper maps and all! Brilliant content 👌
That was great! My missus thought it was a holiday program😀
Love watching your road-trips and what a beautiful vintage GMT you're wearing!
The Millau viaduct was on our list pre-covid and finally two years later we made it and to the Tarn gorge, great road up to Point Sublime, fantastic destinations 😎
Always love these trips Harry, the project 7 makes it even more special! Cheers!
I've driven all of these roads on the way down to my villa in Spain over many years, and ironically spent most of 2019 working near the circuit Paul Ricard very close to the end destination. It's a beautiful part of the world. Never been lucky enough to own a car like this but I enjoy the journey whatever I'm driving. I'm on my way back down again next month in my trusty old Mercedes E wagon...can't wait :)
What a beautiful area to drive through. The scenery and that bridge are absolutely stunning. I'm now seriously considering taking my Triumph on a similar trip in this area for my next holiday.
Years ago, we saw a British Classic Car club doing a tour through the Loire Valley. Traveling with such a group could add to the experience.
Just found this video after watching your 2022 round up episode. Don’t fall into the RUclips algorithm trap Harry, most of your content pops up on my Home Screen to watch but this one didn’t! Love this sort of content, especially in the depths of winter contemplating summer road trips for the summer ahead.
Keep up the great work, look forward to more content like this in 2023
Such lovely roads in France.Brought back memories of 25 years ago.Taking my 205 GTI 1.9 on the Night ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe travelling via Rouen ,Le Mans,Tour .through the mountains near St Etienne on to La Lavendu, Bormes along the coast to St Topez in the evening. Hope one day to be able to do again when I retire,so thank you for reminding me of some happy times.
I’m just back today from an Scotland - south France - Italian riviera - alps and back .
We ended up on the route napoleon not quite the same in a campervan but I still enjoyed it
The hassle passengers are experiencing at airports just now , I think a road trip is the only way to do it !
Great to see someone else appreciating Foster's exquisite work
Was really nice to see the Gorges du Tarn, Used to live there from the age of 8 to 28. Memories....
Love the area around Le Lavandou - was there for two weeks in June.
What was really fascinating was watching the construction of the viaduct. Brilliant stuff.
Thanks for putting me on to this retrofit CarPlay kit, Harry! I’ve just installed it in my 2010 L320 RRS and couldn’t be happier. Love the channel.
I do a lot of WWI battlefield trips from the coast down to Switzerland. I always enjoying driving over the Vosges and staying in Colmar near to the Swiss and German borders. One of my favourite drives was from the German speaking area in Switzerland, down through the Italian speaking area and then into Italy. Some lovely roads and lots of lakes and tunnels.
We do trips down to Tuscany once a year if allowed and we often stop in Colmar such a beautiful town, 👍
@@bigun635 It is a lovely place and the villages around it
Just love your road trips Harry, especially to the South of France.
You always seem to take similar routes to me and often the same hotels. The Mercure in Figeac is my go to hotel in this area. I recommend it to any ‘road tripper’ as it is an amazing hotel and one of very few with plenty of secure parking.
My weapon of choice for the past 5 years has been a 981 Spyder, another 😊brilliant car for such trips.
Keep ‘em coming Harry 👏
Gorge du Tarn is a real treat. Grandparents used to have a place in Tarn and it really is a lovely part of the world.
When we did the same thing pre Covid I was proudly telling French staff in hotels en route we were going to see the Meal-ow viaduct and nobody had a clue what I was talking about. When I discovered it’s called Mee-oh I realised why! Great to see you made it to that fantastic location Harry it really is spectacular, thank you.
love these road trip videos! you never see Harry’s wife in any of his videos. perhaps she’s shy. his son Charley is often featured during his farm videos, but never the wife. also, I’d love to see the House! considering his car collection, I’d imagine his home would be incredible as well!
I love paper maps and then adding to them with the route taken and anything worth noting on the way. Great to look at years later.
Crumbs ... that brought back some memories. Really only one place hadn't changed much since I was there - the Gorges du Tarn. Under somehat different circumstances; I was holidaying with my folks - Mum, Dad and my sister - just over 50 years ago! 😁The overhanging rockface and tunnels were - and clearly still are - amazing. The car I was in at the time .... Austin 1800 'Land crab'. The hydrolastic suspension was brilliant over any bad road surfaces and it carried 4, plus a boot groaning with luggage, in relative comfort. 😀
Thanks for taking us along Harry! What a treat. The Cévennes and gorges of the Tarn are a sublime escape which we've been sadly unable to reach this year, so the chance to take even this brief tour with you is a delicious reminder. Très bon!
Really enjoyed this Harry, thanks very much for allowing us in.
Thanks much to your support crew including the long suffering Mrs M.
A la santé 🥂
Vive la France! We did those kinds of rural French roads a few times, mostly in the pre-GPS era. Even with Michelin paper maps at a detailed level, I turned a bit early and ended in an orchard and I turned a bit late on another road trip and ended in a wheat field. Just relatively pleasant memories now. THANK YOU for reminding us what la France Profound is!
Hey Harry, an update and a thank you. You introduced me to Michelin maps, (rather than those thick spiral bound things), how come I didn’t realise how brilliant they were before?
You showed me how to easily and cheaply buy a Tag for French motorways from Eurotunnel, it will save my wife from climbing half out of the window of the SL to reach the slot to feed an unknown (till you get there) amount of Euros into the Peage.
Now you’ve shown me the alternative route from Millau to the Côte d’Azur. We should be in Millau again a week on Sunday en route to St Maxime and I’ll be taking the D907 and D9 onwards to the south east.
Thank you Sir.
TonyS
Your quiet, studious passion is always a joy to engage with.
That’s right, Harry. Show us how it’s done. A life well lived. Simply brilliant.
We had many enjoyable trips around the Gorges Du Verdon which is about an hour and a half north of Saint-Tropez (and due north of Draguignan). The road snakes around the clear blue glacial water in the lake and it's magical. It's worth considering which way round to drive it though, depending on if you are driving a right-hand or left-hand drive car! Thanks again for the great content Harry.
Great video. Added CarPlay to my F-type too..same type of thing. Voice is there if you set it to allow "hey siri" in your phone.... text, mail, weather, traffic, apps, music...."hey siri....play XXXX music....(and it does)" I find no need to use the other F-type stuff once it is all set up...CarPlay does 99.9999999% of my stuff now. 11/10 for me.
Lovely video as always.Thank you Harry. My wife and I took our 916 series Alfa Spider 2.0 TS through that area 7 years ago on the way back from Bonnieux in Provence.
The hotel we stayed at in Gordes was where the Ferrari Cub of Provence hold their AGM. Our little spider still turned heads !
Every time I check off something on the travel bucket list. Something new gets added. Thanks Harry.
Loved Harry overtaking the hay wagon.
I love France. I remember approaching Rocamadour late one evening about twenty years ago and then taking a turn off up a single track lane for several miles before arriving at an absolutely exquisite guest house. Fabulous memory. So much of France is like a tourist attraction and the French know it and they really look after it.
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I love your trip videos also. Thank you for the Apple CarPlay review. I’ve been considering adding it to an older Jaguar myself and your comments are very helpful.
Love the road trips and chapeau to Mrs M for the filming
The most interesting Jaguar in a long time. Thanks Harry.
Did that area (D907) in southern France a few months ago on a road trip with my son. France has some great driving roads…thoroughly enjoyed the trip…and this video!
I would love to be a fly on the wall when Harry negotiates with Mrs. M on the drive by camera shots, what handbag/dresses he has to buy.
Love this: The fast-slow-fast pace, mixing some fun, spirited driving with taking in some spectacular sights, including the Millau Viaduct, which had me scurrying to Wikipedia for a deeper dive (and catch up with the rest of Foster's work, much of which I knew of, some of which I didn't). Sorry to hear your plans with the Lotus fell through, but it looks (and sounds!) like the Jag largely made up for it.
Nice trip again. I installed the same Car Navigation kit, 2 years ago in my F-Type 2014 3.0 S. it works lovely but it is not always connecting automatically. When near the car, Bluetooth connection, car unlocked, then walk to far from the car and coming back, the connection can’t reconnect again. Lock the car, walk away far enough, then get in and it will connect. But, it’s a wonderful update. Oh, bye the way… when I was searching for a kit like this, I could only find workshops in the UK. In the Netherlands only 1… and fortunately only 5 km from home!!! 😁
Can't believe its been seven years with the project 7. Nothing better than a road trip in a great car.
Harry, many thanks for sharing this road trip video in France. Beautiful scenery, lovely weather & the car's not bad either.
However, the stand out for me was the Millau Viaduct........what a stunning design and I appreciate the unusual view you showed us of the tall, elegant columns.👍👍
Driving to the Black Sea in a couple weeks from Oxford. 14 different countries in 3 weeks. Love your videos Harry, inspire me to do more road trips (not that I need an excuse!).
Hats off to you Harry, you just have to look at all the positive comments on here, that says it all. Great content as always.
I'll never have the opportunity to travel on such roads so thanks for another great video trip away Harry. France is such a beautiful country, not so conjested as our when you get out of the cities and big towns.
Awesome Open Championship going on, but I gotta take a break from it for this vid! Already know it's an enjoyable watch.
I've got the kit for my 2018 Jag XE, installed it myself. Works like a charm, serious upgrade to an otherwise outdated infotainment system.
The shots from under the viaduct are amazing.
Thank you Harry.
Back in the days before the Viaduct was built, we ALL used to go south during the summer using the lower road, I mean, we had no choice.
It was traffic jam for a solid hour at least, Paris was in vacation+all the Dutch and Belgians envying the South of France too ! It's so much better now, because If I go south I can enjoy the road in the valley ^^
Another stunning video, great views, scenic roads and the Project 7 sounds wonderful as she overtakes slower traffic. The French tourist board should use your videos to promote driving holidays in France. Respect to your wife for getting some fantastic footage on these trips!
Thank you Harry for taking me to my dream road trips. Have a lot of safe miles and kilometers on the continent.
Hey Harry, I had a similar system fitted to my BMW i3 and love it! It's definitely not perfect and has its glitches once in a while, but overall super glad such a system exists. Looks great in your car, and I'm glad you included it in the video.
When he gets the map out 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Carnt beat a proper torn and used paper map :)
Snap!… we left same day but on euro tunnel. Just back from 2500 mile road trip in Ferrari taking in The Fuckapass Switzerland into Italy; simply stunning.😎
Top tip in France… don’t worry about being ripped off on auto routes for fuel…. Pricing was near identical to local supermarkets (unlike punitive U.K. pricing 😡) plus all the regular rest areas are clean and well manicured for picnics 👍
I feel I now want to see Harry's Boat trip as well!
my dad got our rented Transit campervan stuck in the Gorge du Tarn road in 1980. I still recall the swearing.
I used to love driving down through Cleremont Ferrand, Millau, Lodève etc on my way to the South before the viaduct existed. Beautiful roads.
What a brilliant road trip. Wife and I rode our motorbikes through the Gorge du Tarn in 2019. The road follows the river with cliffs towering either side. Much better than actually going over the bridge.
Here's a different road trip idea for you Harry - In May 2018 we did Las Vegas to Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Moab, Telluride, Aspen, over Independence pass to Manitou Springs (for Pikes Peak but it was shut!), Denver, Estes Park, Rapid City, Sheridan, Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, Salt Lake City, Moab (again), Bryce Canyon, Zion and back to Las Vegas. 4500 miles in 3 weeks. Our poor little Mitsubishi hire car looked very tired by the end but we had the most amazing time! Highly recommended. Love your trips to France. We're off down to Perpignan in September!
Brilliant as always. We’ve seen an increase in sunflower fields down here in Catalonia too.
Florac to Ste Enimie one of my favourite roads, driven it many times - camped in the gorge out the back of a TD5 90, spent a week in a gite on the plateau with a Mini Clubvan and best of all a couple of days with my Elise which was purpose built for just this sort of driving.
Felicidades Sr.Metcalfe y su Sra invisible detrás de cámaras por estas fabulosas vistas y mostrar sus paseos por Europa y conducir como debe de ser sus joyas automotrices de verdad un privilegio ver su contenido de su canal .,simplemente espectacular great job Herry
Thanks once again,Harry.Always enjoyable to watch your road trips!
Great pictures, we did almost that route to you but from south to north in a Boxter S twelve years ago
Great Visitor Center on the north side with super views of the bridge and the amazing engineering shown in films.
As for the Apple Carplay retrofit, I had something similar done in my car to get Android Auto. Initially there was a Bluetooth issue as well. In order to fix it the shop disabled Bluetooth voice calls on the retrofit box, and allowed voice calls to go through the car's original Bluetooth system. The boxes and systems may differ between cars, but it may be worth exploring.
Love the tour! Thanks. I've driven over the Millau Viaduct and wish I had taken the time to explore that area. Need to get back there some day.
Harry, back in the summer 2016 I drove from Montpellier and drove past the Milau viaduct. I also saw the gorges you mention. Spectacular. We were driving an X5 3.0 diesel, so not sporty at all - but still a great trip.
Great road trip as usual..... yepp, tennis and British racing green JAG, what a sound...!!! Lovely hotel. Thank`s alot Harry.
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Fantastic video, scenery is amazing, but the sound of the Project 7 engine is off the scale AWESOME 🇬🇧❗️😊 Thank you,Harry 👏👏👏❗️
Listening to Harry and this car - both never get old
Always love these road trip videos 😎🙏🏴
I always enjoy hearing the P7 getting on down the road - if a noise could tear spacetime apart, I always imagine it would sound like that!
Getting on for 5 years ago, a friend and I had the idea of taking the F-Type SVR and an iPace down to Millau, going via autoroute in one direction and avoiding them in the other, with the specific aim of seeing which was the better GT, and maybe doing a press story about the best of the 'old' versus the incoming 'new' ways of driving cars. The old road under the Viaduct was going to be the turn-around point.
Sadly, things did not go as planned and the trip never got off the starting blocks. Having seen your run in this video, it's not an opportunity to be missed lightly! Once I was well enough again to think of such things, I had neither the finance or access to the vehicles.
Fantastic, safe, fun lap. She’s a keeper for sure.🚗
Harry, road trip/ maps, Apple Car Play, Project 7 and France... Gotta love it... And the real star of the show Mrs M... When there r miles to consume bring on a V8. Harry's like a kid in a lolly shop.
nice to see the road trips back Harry those French roads look so inviting
Harry!!! We just love your films especially the road trips. But this one brought back happy memories of driving those amazing routes through the gorges and mountains around Milau in the early 1990s before the bridge was built, in my Peugeot 205 GTi . Perfect car for those twisting routes through the mountains. Happy days!! Thanks for taking us with you!! All the best😁❤ Lee and Caroline
I really do like these road trips Harry, keep doing them. I'd love to see you do a big trip out to Georgia (though perhaps not through Russia) Its actually such a beautiful place.
Great vid again Harry 👍🏼 I actually went back to watch this after your Hcoty round up. The P7 colour 😍 when are reading the map at Le Mans, I couldn't believe how much flake it has!
I wish my other half was as chilled and accommodating as Mrs Metcalfe! 😂