I'm sure there are plenty of you that would love to look after my car for two weeks!

I have debated driving there but not sure I could put up with the wife and daughter in the car for 10 hours or so!

A mate for a boys holiday, yes

Leave it all warm and cosily snuggled up in a thermal blanket, with copious amounts of flask filled hot chocolate, and get one of the neighbours to come in and read it a chapter from the Haynes manual every night.

Edited 20 August, 201411 yr by Mr Ree

Lol

Horlicks is tipple of choice.

Lol

Thanks for the replies - it's as I thought, leave it alone! I will top the tyre pressures up before I go though.

Taking the wife's car to the airport, my vRS can stay at home.

Gary - off to sunny Port Frejus, next to St Raphael in the south of France. My wife's parents have a place there so we are taking advantage of it again now our daughter is a bit older and walking, she's 14 months now

Adam, should have driven down, we left Frejus mid morning Saturday just gone and were home indoors just after midnight 800 miles.

We stayed at the Siblu site just out the back of town, the last two weeks it's been in the 30's everyday and once upto 39 degrees.

Have a good time, wish I was back there now.

Ah someone that knows the area!

Glad you had a good time - shall remember next year and may drive. Meet you there for a beer

Yeah we have been down there for four years now and really like it, some nice driving roads around, the coast road from Fregus through Agay to Cannes is a lovely road and not too busy, and also it's about an hour to Monaco, and the Autoroute is all hills and tunnels and tight bends, great fun on a late night drive back from Monaco after a bit of Supercar spotting!

A beer down in the harbour, a pleasant way to spend the afternoon.

Been popping down there on and off for the last nine years but never driven it - I would love an Octavia vRS estate for the journey

It's pleasantly familiar now, plenty to see each time and always find something new to do!

Super car and super yacht spotting is amusing!

I normally just leave it in 1st gear with the handbrake off. My octavia coped fine like that after I was away for 2 months. Came back, turned key and it went

I left mine for 3 weeks in April, got back and good as gold.

It can be a fantastic journey down, being what you make it of course. If you can consider it part of the holiday rather than the drudge to get to the start of your holidays, then you'll all love it. You can start and stop when it suits, particularly if you have young 'un. Stop at places you like the look of, when you fancy a chew or your bitter brew of choice.

You also have your own car to mooch about in. The hinterland is fantastic - roads, scenery and villages are all wonderful. Well worth the effort.

I've been there when it was 44C, and being able to drive up into the hills and loose a few degrees and gain a bit of cooling breeze is nice too.

Going at July August, I'd work hard to avoid the busiest autoroutes. Make that definitely avoid on the "black week-end" as europe unites at the toll booths and interchanges of France.

My Fabia now regularly sits on the path with the handbrake off, for anything up to 4 weeks at a time. Always starts first time and no problems

I work away for weeks at a time and leave my car parked up without an issue.

With my previous car the handbrake had a habit of seizing so I used to leave it in gear with handbrake off, usually parked facing up a slope with rear wheels resting against kerb.