Awaycation Autumn 2024 - Stopovers?

So with one overnight stopover fixed and booked I am looking at the maps to see if there are places to visit as we travel pretty much due south from Formerie, around Paris and then right through the middle of France.

My "go to" website is "Les Plus Beaux Villages de France". For some reason today the English page isn't working and Google isn't translating the French page for me. So I will have to resort to the schoolboy level French that I stopped learning officially in 1973.

The route after circumnavigating Paris takes us to the A77 toll-free motorway. The day will be about 196 miles to my (possible) stop at Bonny-sur-Loire. For normal people that is about 3 hours or so, but In a motorhome with a dog it's around 4 hours. Or longer.

The Beaux Villages are scattered across France. The latest map I could find shows that the north is pretty poor. This is probably because two world wars were fought across Normandy and what are now Somme and Pas-de-Calais Nord.

It looks for that day we will be unlucky with a Beau Village as the first village on the route is Sancerre and a short hike off the A77. Looking on Search4sites there seems to very little parking but one parking does have two camping-car spaces. That one will go in the book, yes a real notepad, as a maybe.

A better option is a little further south and that's Apremont-sur-Allier. Looks a nice little village with a castle, and it will be about lunch time when we arrive. They have a large camping-car parking place near the old town. I have added that one to the TomTom route.

Once we get onto the A75 below Clermont Ferrand we enter the area where we have been to most of them already! So Beaux Villages..... Next time maybe! That's probably not a bad thing as it is a long run on the motorways to St Cyprien.