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Advantages: Clean and reliable Disadvantages: Some cabins are getting "tired"
We haved travelled to France six times in the last 8 years and each time we have chosen to use Brittany Ferries for our crossing. This is more to do with the fact that they service the crossings we want to use rather than a conscious decision over other operators. We usually travel to the West side of France and the Calais crossing and the tunnel require longer drives for us on both sides of the Channel.
Brittany ferries operate from Portsmouth, Poole, Plymouth and Cork and travel to Caen, St Malo, Cherbourg, Roscoff and Santander.
I have always booked my tickets as part of a package with my campsite accomodation with various tour operators so I am not sure how much each crossing costs but the crossings can also be booked direct from their website: www.brittanyferries.com . I did speak to someone else on a campsite a couple ...
Advantages: An amazing, mysterious place. Disadvantages: You cannot get near the stones.
Carnac, in Brittany, is one of the high places of megalithic culture. The great standing stone alignments are to Brittany what Stonehenge is to prehistoric England. I first visited this as a very young child and there is somewhere a picture of me sitting on a megalith aged about four. Nowadays though, a visit to Carnac is rather different, as the menhirs (a Breton word for standing stone) cannot be approached most of the time, due to the huge numbers of visitors to this site who had started to endanger the soil around the monuments.
The Morbihan area is particularly rich in megalithic structures, and around Carnac itself, there are many outstanding monuments to visit such as the amazing sculpted cairn at Gavrinis or the megalithic ensemble at Locmariaquer which comprises two tumuli (covered tombs) and a massive standing stone which ...
Advantages: Luxurious, accomodating and friendly staff, family friendly, excellent location Disadvantages: High chair was too trendy for our baby
After a very busy first year of marriage, without any kind of holiday (terrorists decided that the day we were meant to go for our honeymoon was the perfect day to cause worldwide mayhem). We decided that we really needed to go away at least for a few days on a short city break and decided on Antwerp as a good destination.
Reasons being:
We could go on the Eurostar (thereby no popping ears for our baby - aged 7 months at the time)
It is reasonably close to London
There are Jewish facilities (synagogues for regular prayers, kosher restaurants to eat in)
We found a good deal on staying in what seemed like a very plush hotel - the Astrid Park Plaza
There seemed to be an aquarium to visit, amongst other things to do (Aquatopia - absolutely brilliant, hopefully I'll write a review of it too)
We booked a Monday to Thursday trip in ...
