Have you biked to France with kids?

[Boredbumhead]

I have booked a holiday in eurocamp in Brittany in May. I am considering getting a ferry from Portsmouth to st Malo taking bikes and a bike carriage but no car. From st Malo the campsite is about 21 miles away. Could we do this with an 8 year old accompanying us and a 4 year old in a trailer?

Has anyone else done this or should we just take a car, train or flight? I'll be going with DP too.

Shared route
From Saint-Malo to Eurocamp Domaine Des Ormes via Voie de la Liberté/D4.

1 hr 53 min (34km)

1. Head west on Rue Guillaume le Gouverneur towards Rue du Pourpris
2. Turn left onto Rue du Pourpris
3. Continue onto Rue Broussais
4. Continue onto Rue de Dinan
5. Continue onto Porte de Dinan
6. Continue onto Espl. de la Bourse
7. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Chaussée Eric Tabarly
8. Exit the roundabout onto Chaussée Eric Tabarly
9. At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Quai de Trichet/D126

10. Exit the roundabout onto Quai de Trichet/D126 11. At the roundabout, continue straight onto Quai du Val/D126 12. Exit the roundabout onto Quai du Val/D126 13. Turn right onto Rue Amiral Protet 14. Turn left onto Rue Lecoufle 15. Turn right onto Rue des 4 Pavillons 16. Continue onto Rue de la Marne/D137 17. At the roundabout, continue straight onto Rue de la Balue/Voie de la Liberté/D137 18. Exit the roundabout onto Rue de la Balue/Voie de la Liberté/D137 19. At the roundabout, continue straight onto Rue du Général Patton/Voie de la Liberté/D137 20. Exit the roundabout onto Rue du Général Patton/Voie de la Liberté/D137 21. At the roundabout, continue straight to stay on Rue du Général Patton/Voie de la Liberté/D137 22. Exit the roundabout onto Rue du Général Patton/Voie de la Liberté/D137 23. Take the D4 exit 24. Keep right at the fork, follow signs for D4 25. Merge onto Voie de la Liberté/D4 26. At the roundabout, continue straight to stay on Voie de la Liberté/D4 27. Exit the roundabout onto Voie de la Liberté/D4 28. At the roundabout, continue straight onto Rue d'Aleth/Voie de la Liberté/D4 29. Exit the roundabout onto Rue d'Aleth/Voie de la Liberté/D4 heading to La Gouesnière/La Fresnais/Dol de Bretagne 30. At the roundabout, continue straight to stay on Voie de la Liberté/D4 31. Exit the roundabout onto Voie de la Liberté/D4 heading to Dol de Bgne 32. At the roundabout, continue straight onto Boulevard Deminiac/Voie de la Liberté/D155 33. Exit the roundabout onto Boulevard Deminiac/Voie de la Liberté/D155 heading to Combourg/Rennes 34. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Boulevard Victor Planson/D795 35. Exit the roundabout onto Boulevard Victor Planson/D795 36. At the roundabout, continue straight onto Rue de Rennes/D795 37. Exit the roundabout onto Rue de Rennes/D795 38. Turn left onto La Basse Butte/D10 39. Turn right onto Rue de la Butte 40. Turn right onto Rue du Commerce .st Léonard 41. Continue onto Rue de l'Epine Roulier 42. Slight left 43. Turn left 44. Turn left 45. Arrive at location: Eurocamp Domaine Des Ormes To see this route visit maps.app.goo.gl/HB7JtpCbwCEKNFtu5

I have no idea if you can do it or not but I'm very much liking your style. In the past I've used Google Street view to work out out if somewhere is walkable.If you do end up going good luck !

I'm trying to do micro adventures @fedup2017. Good Idea will try street view.

I don’t have personal experience, but a look at this amazing family’s blog might help you decide. Their children were 5,5 and 8 when they cycled through France.

familykillick.blogspot.com/2014/08/day-1-bayonne-to-ondres-plage.html?m=1

No actual experience but DH and I sailed Poole - Cherbourg over the summer and there were hoardes of cyclists coming off the ferry at either end.
It sounds like good fun if you're the sort of family who cycle anyway. We've also stayed at that site and everything was easily accessible by bike.