GETTING THERE
  • Fly to La Rochelle or Poitiers and hire a car. Drive time 1 hour from airport. Low cost flights are available from Ryanair from London Stansted and with Flybe from Birmingham.
  • Fly to Limoges. Drive time 2 hours from airport. Low cost flights with Ryanair from Liverpool and Nottingham.
  • Fly to Bordeaux. Drive time 2 hours from airport. Low cost flights with BMIBaby from Birmingham.
  • Fly to Cherbourg. Drive time 5 hours from airport. Low cost flights with Flybe from Southampton.
  • Travel by rail to Poitiers or Angouleme.
  • Take a car through the Channel Tunnel or go by ferry or hovercraft to a variety of seaports and drive down through the motorway network. Only 4 hours from St. Malo, 5 hours Caan/Le Havre and Cherbourg and 8 hours from Calais.
  • Crossings from Dublin and Rosslare to Cherbourg and Cork to Roscoff.
  • Flights from Dublin to La Rochelle and Nantes
  • Ferry crossings Rosythe to Zeebrugge (Belgium)
USEFUL CONTACT NUMBERS

Hoverspeed - Dover/Calais Tel: 0870 524 0241 www.hoverspeed.co.uk
Rail Europe Tel: 0870 584 8848 www.raileurope.co.uk
Euro Tunnel Tel: 0870 535 3535 www.eurotunnel.co.uk
Sea France - Dover/Calais Tel: 0870 571 1711 www.seafrance.com
P&O Ferries - Dover/Calais & Portsmouth/Le Havre Tel: 0870 520 2020 www.poferries.com
P&O Ferries - Dublin to Cherbourg Tel: 0870 520 2020 www.poferries.com
Norfolkline - Dover/Dunkerque Tel: 0870 870 1020 www.norfolkline.com
Speed Ferries - Dover/Boulogne Tel: 0871 222 7456 www.speedferries.com
Brittany Ferries - Portsmouth - Caan/Cherbourg/St. Malo Tel: 0870 536 0360 www.brittany-ferries.co.uk
Brittany Ferries - Cork to Roscoff Tel: 0870 536 0360 www.brittany-ferries.co.uk
Transmanche Ferries - Newhaven/Dieppe Tel: 0800 917 1201 www.transmancheferries.com
Condor Ferries - Poole/St. Malo Tel: 0845 124 2002 www.condorferries.com
Irish Ferries (N.I.) - Rosslaire to Cherbourg Tel: 00353 818 300 400 www.irishferries.com
Irish Ferries (R.O.I.) - Rosslaire to Cherbourg Tel: 0818 300 400 www.irishferries.com
Ryan Air Tel: 0871 246 0000 www.ryanair.co.uk
Fly Be Tel: 0871 700 0535 www.flybe.com
BMI Baby Tel: 0871 224 0224 www.bmibaby.com
LD Lines - Portsmouth/Le Havre Tel: 0870 428 4335 www.ldlines.co.uk
Superfast Ferries Rosythe ~ Zeebrugge Tel: 0870 420 1267 www.superfast.ferries.org

DIRECTIONS BY CAR

FROM CALAIS - Drive to Potiers then take the N10 to Sauze Vaussais.  Follow signs to Chef-Boutonne on the D1.  Drive straight through Chef-Boutonne staying on the main road signposted to Melle, Niort, Brioux sur Boutonne D740.  Go past the Chateau at Jarvarzay on your right. Keep going straight on (you are now only about 1 min away).  As you come to the sign Lussais, we are the first house on the left after the field.

FROM ST. MALO - Drive to Rennes, Nantes, Niort ( N148 ). Take the N11 towards Frontenay Rohan Rohan, turn off to the right to go around Niort and onto the D740. As you enter Lussais, the Logis is on the right, just before you get to Chef Boutonne.