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Why bother with northern France? Why not go to Cornwall and save the ferry fare? Talk me into it....

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Orinoco · 14/01/2006 21:30

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starlover · 14/01/2006 21:32

whereabouts are you? if you wanna stay in uk then go to studland bay in dorset... really, really lovely

Gingerbear · 14/01/2006 21:33

The food
the wine

littlemissbossy · 14/01/2006 21:37

Go to Brittany .. beautiful, fab beaches not too far to drive OR go to Normandy, then head over to Paris for Disneyland ... if that's your sort of thing, it's only a 3hr drive to Paris from the north of France. Whatever you choose, gingerbread's right - it's the food, wine, culture that makes it great

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Orinoco · 14/01/2006 21:41

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littlemissbossy · 14/01/2006 21:44

absolutely!!! the campsites are fab!!!

starlover · 14/01/2006 21:44

studland is all lovely sand!

starlover · 14/01/2006 21:44

we used to camp down there when i was little and it was really lovely

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Orinoco · 14/01/2006 21:45

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Orinoco · 14/01/2006 21:46

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hunkermunker · 14/01/2006 21:47

Brittany's lovely, so is the Vendee. Gorgeous beaches and beautiful food.

Tortington · 14/01/2006 21:48

cos its another copuntry an culture - cornwall is a piece of piss and if you dont go to france your chicken shit

hunkermunker · 14/01/2006 21:48

That too

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Orinoco · 14/01/2006 21:51

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Orinoco · 14/01/2006 21:53

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starlover · 14/01/2006 21:55

oooh blimey! i don't think it all is though is it???

don't recall seeing any naked people there... but then it was a good 15 years since i last went! lol

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Orinoco · 14/01/2006 21:57

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starlover · 14/01/2006 21:59

oooh jeez! they could've chosen some better specimins for that pic! lol

Bozza · 14/01/2006 22:09

The culture. Its just more "foreign". We're currently weighing up this dilemma with our two who will also be 5 and 2 when we go.

Other thing is (don't know where you're setting off from but) Yorkshire to Brittany is plenty far enough with a grumpy 2yo. I'm hoping she will be a slightly less grumpy 2yo than she was a 1yo last year when we went to Normandy.

littlemissbossy · 14/01/2006 22:14

Bozza, we live in Yorkshire too and have been going to France since youngest DS was 1 - now 5 - no problems whatsoever, although our children always travel well, no sickness

littlemissbossy · 14/01/2006 22:15

Orinoco, we've stayed at quite a few - how far would you want to drive at the other end?

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Orinoco · 14/01/2006 22:19

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Orinoco · 14/01/2006 22:21

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Orinoco · 14/01/2006 22:23

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Aero · 14/01/2006 22:28

Watching with interest as we think we'd like to brave France this year but don't know where to start. Think Brittany would be far enough for us tbh - don't fancy hours and hours in the car just for the sake of going south.