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Thanks for the replies - looks like that with a bit of forethought we should be OK. In the 80s we were child-free, so always travelled in the "off" season, and as for prices - there was no booking.com, trivago etc - the price was the price. We did just once start to worry that we might have to sleep in the car - having fallen in love with Segovia we'd stayed too long in Spain and, basically, had left ourselves one day short to get back to the ferry, even blatting up the autoroutes, and ended up getting to Chinon at about 8pm, and then beginning the search for a room, but it turned out OK.  We even scraped into the hotel restaurant 5 minutes before it closed to new diners. [B]  Shame that the Hachettes guide is no more. SWMBO has just come up with another Q, though - do we really want to live out of a suitcase for that long. Hmmm. [8-)]

Many years ago (1980s) we had a number of touring holidays in France where we only had a rough idea of where we would go, did a lot of meandering (hardly any N roads, let alone As), and never booked hotels in advance.  Pre-Tripadvisor days, in fact pre-anything WWW, and pre-mobile phones.  The drill was that around 16:00-ish we'd stop and peruse the Hachette guide, with Michelin as back-up, find somewhere within a 30-ish minute radius with a choice of hotels, and just rock up to one and ask for a room for the night.  Never, ever, did we fail to find somewhere to stay, even if it wasn't our 1st choice.   Since then whenever we've been to France by car we've always had planned, pre-booked itineraries, driving to a destination as quickly as possible and staying in one place, with meandering confined to day trips.   However, we've been thinking about going back to the old ways, one more time, maybe taking a week to get from Calais to Tarn-et-Garonne.   So the €64,000 question is is it still feasible, or are those days gone for ever, the small hotels closed, and pre-booking the only way to do it?