If you drive from France into Italy, is it better to drive through the Haute Savoie to Piemonte or Is it advisable to go through Provence down to the coast and follow the motorway past Genova? We’ll be going mid-April so I don’t know how much snow there might be on the mountain roads. Any suggestions?

Beebee, I've never driven it in April, but I do get the impression that the snowploughs keep the autoroutes/strade pretty clear.

I'm not a great lover of tunnel driving, and we'd always avoided the Mt Blanc tunnel - but we did it last summer (Piemonte - Savoie), and found it surprisingly OK. There's great emphasis on safety, of course, after the fire of whenever it was: strict speed limits & spacing distances. Certainly a lot more pleasant than the almost as long but much more claustrophobic Fréjus tunnel (Maurienne - Bardonecchia), which we've done a few times. And the drive from Aosta down to Turin is a lot nicer than Bardonecchia - Turin.

Jonathan

It is to me, but they all are to me. This one is slightly better in one way, because the lighting is irregular. The evenly spaced lighting in most tunnels causes vertigo in me. The only thing you can do is constantly check your mirrors and glance down at the gauges.
I had a tailgater, so I put on my flashers and slowed right down. He backed off. I sped up; he didn't. He ended up at least a km behind me. I did watch for the emergency exits, since that is the important thing in case of an accident.
I felt like a champ when I got through. That is one long tunnel! In the end, though, it was getting through Milan and up to Como that was harder. The signage was confusing and I do speak Italian.