1. BY CAR
General location:
The Dordogne is roughly a seven hour drive from the channel ports.
To obtain a route plan from your home to St Astier click by car (please note we are the St Astier which is 20 km west of Perigueux, as there is another St Astier further south in the Dordogne).
Ferry Operators - useful sites:
www.brittanyferries.com (Portsmouth to Caen and St Malo or Poole to Cherbourg or Plymouth to Roscoff)
www.condorferries.co.uk (Weymouth or Poole to St Malo)
www.norfolkline.com (Dover to Dunkerque - primarily a freight carrier so often cheaper)
www.norsemerchant.com (package from Northern Ireland to Liverpool and then drive to Dover)
www.seafrance.com (Dover - Calais)
www.speedferries.com (Dover and Boulogne in 50 mins)
www.poferries.com (Dover to Calais; Portsmouth to Cherbourg and Le Havre and also from Rosslare and Dublin to Cherbourg
www.transmancheferries.com (Newhaven and Dieppe)
There is also a car train which terminates at Brive (approx one hour from the house)
3. BY TRAIN
It is possible to travel by Eurostar from Waterloo (change at Lille) to Bordeaux and then get a connecting train to St Astier where you can walk to the house (approx 8 hours).
The TGV can be picked up at Libourne (45 minutes from the house). This connects with the Eurostar at Paris or Lille.
Express trains from Perigueux to Paris run several times a day.
Skiing is closest in the massif central but also available in the Pyrenees about two and half hours away (likewise Biarritz and the north Spanish coast).
By train St Astier is ten minutes to the medieval city of Perigueux and an hour in the other direction to Bordeaux.
GETTING THERE FROM THE UK
- Planes, trains and automobiles -
(Please note that this information is only a guide and is by no means totally comprehensive)
2. BY AIR
International
Bergerac Airport (40 minutes drive to the house). There are flights from London Stansted, London Luton, East Midlands and Liverpool with ryanair as well as flights from Southhampton; Bristol, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford and Exeter, with flybe.
Bordeaux Airport (1hour 15 minutes to the house). Daily flights from Gatwick can be booked with British Airways. You can travel from Birmingham or Manchester with BMI Baby; from Luton or Bristol with easyjet and from Southampton with flybe.
Limoges Airport (1 hour 30 minutes to the house). Daily flights from London Stansted with Ryanair and flights from Newcastle with flybe.
NB: There may be additional options to the above as the timetables change with each season.
Internal
There is an airport at Perigueux (10 mins by train to the house) and 30 minutes in the air from Paris
Useful sites:
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