Road Trip: Driving from London to Paris

Drag yourself away from Brighton and drive west along a winding coastal road to Newhaven,

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where ferries cross the English Channel to France and the town of Dieppe. From here travelers can take a detour along the Alabaster Coast of Normandy, a stark canvas of white chalk cliffs towering over the blue ocean below. The soft chalk is continually eroded by the wash of the waves, carving dramatic rock formations from the cliffs. The resulting shapes are most spectacular at Étretat Plage, a beach framed by three giant stone arches and sentinel needles of rock jutting out of the ocean. These striking features inspired the Impressionist painters Boudin, Manet and Monet. Étretat is about 50 miles west of Dieppe, and from there travelers can then take smaller roads through rural towns to the city of Rouen. This will add around 60 miles to the total journey, so an alternative is to drive directly from Dieppe to Rouen, which are only 45 miles apart along the N27.