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'La Metairie du Petit Pont'
No 18 rue de Thire, Ligne, Saint Valerien, Vendee, France.
Getting Here
46 Deg 32min 09.10Sec North - 0 Deg 57min 50.35 Sec West
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Four hours drive from ferry port of Caen; Three hours from St.Malo.
1 Hours drive from La Rochelle and Nantes Airports.
10 minutes from Pouille and Ste. Hermine (A83 Motoway Exit 7). Directions: Turn off the N148 at St.Etienne de Brillouet, along D14 proceed 2,7km (1.7m) to LIGNE - St.Valerien.) Turn left into 'rue de Thire', after 150mtrs to No 18 (second house on right)
From the A83 Motorway (12 minutes drive):
Exit the motorway at Exit 7; Proceed direct through Ste.Hermine(direction Chantonnay); shortly after exiting Ste.Hermine turn right onto the N148 (direction Nior and Fontenay le Compte); shortly after arriving in St.Etienne de Brillouet, turn left along D14; proceed 2,7km (1.7m) to LIGNE - St.Valerien.) Turn left into 'rue de Thire', after 150mtrs to No 18 (second house on right)
Ferry crossings: Nearest ferry port is St Malo (served by Brittany Ferries and Condor), 3 hours' drive away, almost all on dual carriageway. Brittany Ferries' ports of Roscoff (5 hrs away), also used by Irish Ferries; the Normandy port of Caen (4 hrs) is served by Brittany Ferries and P&O, as is Cherbourg (4.5 hrs) - which also has crossings via Irish Ferries. The new toll-free dual-carriageway road across Normandy has reduced journey times from Cherbourg or Caen, and makes for very easy driving. Dover to Calais is convenient for many (roughly 6 hrs to the Vendée), with P&O, Hoverspeed, SeaFrance and others, while anyone travelling from Scotland and the North of England might want to consider P&O's ferry from Hull to Zeebrugge or the Superfast Ferries route from Rosyth to Zeebrugge (around an 8-hr drive - mostly on motorways - to the Vendée).
Fly from UK: Anybody visiting without a car can fly from Gatwick to Nantes (Air France or GB Airways), or from Stansted to La Rochelle or Poitiers with Ryanair, or take Eurostar to from London Waterloo to Lille, then TGV to Nantes and local train to La Roche-sur-Yon.
Contact Tel: +33 251 87 63 23 or Mobile 06 32 80 26 32
From Europe: Road links are very easy via Paris or Bordeaux; Fly: into La Rochelle, Nantes or Potiers
From USA and other countries: Fly into Paris and then by fast TGV Rail to Nantes or Niort or fly from Paris to La Rochelle, Nantes or Potiers.
From Europe
http://www.brittanyferries.com
National Airlines
http://www.britishairways.com/
http://www.americanairlines.com
http://www.saa.co.za/ (South African Airways)
http://www.hlf.de/ (Hapag-Lloyd Flug)
http://www.ltu.de/ (LTU International Airways)
Airports
Train The rapid RER train service links the Charles de Gaulle airport with central Paris. Trains run every 15 minutes (eight minutes in peak periods) and the journey takes approximately 35 minutes. Line B runs from the TGV station at Terminal 2 to Gare du Nord, Châtelet-les-Halles, St Michel and Denfert-Rochereau with connections to the metro.
Paris Map http://www.beyond.fr/map/tgv_paris.html
http://www.larochelle-tourisme.com/
Rail Travel
http://www.sncf.com/indexe.htm
German Rail http://www.deutschebahn.de
Swiss Rail http://www.rail.ch/index_e.htm
Italian Railhttp://www.fs-on-line.com/
Brit Rail http://www.britrail.com/
British National Rail http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
Orient Express (Venice Simplon)http://www.orient-expresstrains.com/
They say we enjoy a 'Micro Climate' with as much sunshine hours and the South of France.
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