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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: Beautiful Disadvantages: Too much food and wine!!! Only a disadvantage for the waist line.
I have just got back from four days in St Malo. I absolutely loved it. It is not expensive to travel to, the area is beautiful, the food and drink are amazing, and the general feeling is relaxed easy.
Getting there
You can travel by Ferry, from Portsmouth to St Malo using Brittany Ferries. On the way there you catch the ferry at about 8pm and then stay overnight. There are a couple of places to eat on the ferry, in particular one really nice restaurant, in which a meal for two will set you back around £70 (with a bottle of wine) or there are the cheaper self service restaurants which have quite a variety and are fairly reasonable. Then the ferry unloads the next morning at around 8am. On the way back you catch the ferry at about 10am, have a wander around the ferry, watch a film in the little cinema (around £6 each), chuckle ...
