The Gite's location
Our comfortable family holiday Gite is situated in the tranquil centre of rural Brittany near the D778 between the market town of Loudeac and historic medieval town of Josselin, as shown on this map of Brittany.We're roughly 40 minutes drive from both the North and South Brittany coastlines, two miles from the nearest town of La Cheze where there's a number of shops and restaurants, and 10 miles from larger towns such as Josselin and Loudeac.
Local Maps of the area
For more detailed maps of where to find us, see maps.google.fr, www.viamichelin.com or www.multimap.com.Travel Directions
To plan your journey to the Gite, it's easiest to navigate to the nearby town of La Cheze. We will send you full travel directions (right up to the front door) from your chosen airport or ferry port on confirmation of your holiday booking - and we haven't lost any guests en-route yet!Driving in France
Driving is considerably easier than it is in the UK or Ireland (well, apart from driving on the wrong side of the road that is) with the roads being generally quieter and straighter. Brittany has the additional benefit of having no tolls on any of its autoroutes but there are the occasional fixed speed cameras (see the controleradar website for camera locations) and on-the-spot fines are charged if you're caught speeding.To help you with the journey we've collected together a comprehensive set of Hints and Tips for driving in France with details of the key French motoring laws and 'rules of the road', speed limits and advice about taking your car to France, filling up at the petrol station, and common road signs you may see whilst driving in France.
How to get to our Brittany Holiday Gite
It's very easy to reach our Gite with a number of ferry and flight options available depending on where you live and whether you want to take your own car over or not.The autoroutes of France are much much quieter than the UK motorways and so it's quite an easy to drive to the Gite from any of the French ports. It's basically a balance between choosing the amount of time you spend on the boat, and the amount of time driving - the nearest ferry port of St Malo offers a short 1½ hour drive in France to the Gite, but a longer boat crossing from the UK; compared to the Northern French ports such as Calais, Boulogne and Eurotunnel which have shorter (and cheaper) ferry crossings, but a comparatively longer drive.
Alternatively there are lots of different budget airline choices to fly to France from across the UK and Ireland; we've listed below those that land within a 3 hour drive of our holiday cottage:
Option 1 - Take your own car on the Ferry or CatamaranWe're just a short drive from the french ferry ports and most of the route is on the motorway : |
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Poole/Weymouth to St Malo 4 ½ - 5 ¼ hours catamaran |
1 ½ hours drive |
Guernsey/Jersey to St Malo 1 ¾ hours catamaran |
1 ½ hours drive |
Portsmouth to Cherbourg 5 ½ hours ferry |
4 hours drive |
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Portsmouth to St Malo 10 hours overnight ferry |
1 ½ hours drive |
Plymouth to Roscoff 7 hours ferry |
2 hours drive |
Portsmouth to Caen 3 hours catamaran or 6 ½ hours ferry |
3 ½ hours drive |
Portsmouth to Cherbourg or Le Havre 3 ½ hours catamaran (March to October) or 5 ½ hours ferry |
4 hours drive |
Poole to Cherbourg 4 ½ hours ferry |
4 hours drive |
Cork to Roscoff 14 hours ferry |
2 hours drive |
Rosslare to Cherbourg 17 hours ferry |
4 hours drive |
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Newhaven to Dieppe 4 hours ferry |
5 hours drive |
Dover to Calais 1 ½ hours ferry |
6 ¼ hours drive |
Dover to Dunkerque 2 hours ferry |
6 ½ hours drive |
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Dover to Calais 1 ¼ hours ferry |
6 ¼ hours drive |
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Folkestone to Calais 50 minutes Euro tunnel |
6 ¼ hours drive |
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Dover to Calais 1 ¼ hours ferry |
6 ¼ hours drive |
Dublin to Cherbourg 18 hours overnight ferry |
4 hours drive |
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Rosslare to Cherbourg 18 hours overnight ferry |
4 hours drive |
Option 2 - Fly then rent a car or take a taxi for the short drive to our GiteThere are over 30 different low-cost airline routes from across the UK and Ireland into Brittany with bargain basement prices from as little as 99p : |
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Auto Europe offer excellent value car rental from over 900 locations across France including nearby Brest, Dinard, Lorient, Lannion, Nantes, and Rennes airports. | |
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London Southend to Brest 1 hour flight |
2 hours drive |
Dublin, Edinburgh or Manchester to Nantes 1 hour flight |
2 hours drive |
London Stansted, Brussels, Porto or Dublin to La Rochelle 1 ½ hours flight |
3 ¾ hours drive |
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Manchester to La Rochelle 2 hours flight |
3 ¾ hours drive |
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Dublin to Rennes (summer services) 1 ½ hours flight |
1 hour drive |
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London Gatwick and Bristol to Nantes 2 hours flight |
2 hours drive |
London Gatwick and Bristol to La Rochelle 2 hours flight |
3 ¾ hours drive |
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14 UK and Irish destinations to Lorient, Lannion or Brest
(via Paris) 1-2 hours flight + interchange wait at Paris |
1 - 2 ½ hours drive |
Other useful websites:
Driving:Information Routieres - Traffic News and Roadworks in France
Find the cheapest fuel en-route in France with Prix des Carburants
Positions and maps of fixed speed camera locations in France
AA travel advice for driving in France
Ferries:
Ferrycheap.com for cheap ferry tickets to France, Spain and more online
Book with FerrySavers for a wide choice of cheap ferries
Flying:
Money saving expert's Flightchecker for quickly finding the cheap budget airline flights
Cheapflights.co.uk for flight details from your nearest airport to Rennes, Dinard, Brest or Nantes airports
Jeff Steiner's very useful unofficial Guides to nearby Brittany airports at Rennes, Dinard, Brest and Nantes
Auto Europe for good value car hire rental from all of the French airports