L'hotel Roche Corneille, Brittany

Advantages: A Beautiful Place In A Lovely Setting
Disadvantages: Mainly Just Ruins

...Roche Abbey lies approximately 13 miles to the East of Sheffield and 9 miles to the West of Doncaster in Maltby Beck, in South Yorkshire. Although the Abbey is now in ruins it is a place that is well worth a visit if you are ever in the area, and though it was one of lesser known Cistercian Abbeys of its era it is nonetheless a very typical example of a 12th century Abbey. THE HISTORY Roche Abbey was built in 1147, it was a joint foundation by Richard de Busli, Lord of Maltby, and Richard Fitzturgis, Lord of Hooten, and was in this respect rather unusual. Otherwise, the Abbey's development was in many ways similar to that of many other Cistercian Abbeys in England, enjoying a steady period of growth during the twelfth and early part of the thirteenth centuries followed by a gradual decline and its eventual dissolution in 1538... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful area with plenty to explore
Disadvantages: Windy beaches but good for surfing

...destinations by certain times was to be considered. My friend's family includes a disabled teenager who can't tolerate high temperatures and who tires very easily. Also, her husband is clinically obese and gets very tired and will fall asleep easily at the wheel despite any noise going on in the car, and so my friend would have to take over the driving too. We decided that France was probably the best option! We went onto the trusty internet and located a website 'French Country Holidays' and found some cottages in Brittany. Brittany is in the North West of France with coastlines on the English Channel to the north and the Atlantic to the West. After much deliberation and scrutinising of maps and guide books, we settled upon Vannes, in the Morbihan area. To get there from where I live, I drove down the M20 from Maidstone towards... Read review

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Advantages: excellent customer support and booking advice service
Disadvantages: not a lot for 'tweenagers' to do on board the ferries

...Brittany Ferries is not just a ferry operator, but also a holiday and hotel booking service. ~~ Booking ~~ Somehow, no matter how hard we try to plan things in advance we always do things at the last minute. Last July we decided, rather late in the day, that we’d like a ‘little holiday’ in France. This was to be our third short break in France, having previously travelled to Caen and Cherbourg, both from Portsmouth. This time we chose St Malo, and gave ourselves a week to arrange it and get there! Brittany Ferries offers what appears to be a great online booking service, trouble is we were too late to use it and I had to use the phone to make the booking, referring to the website to find details of hotels. We wanted bed and breakfast somewhere we could use as a centre for a quiet sightseeing family holiday that we could... Read review

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