Practical Caravan

SPRING INTO FRANCE

IT HAD BEEN a winter of discontent (which reminds me of a clever camping advertising slogan, “Now is the winter of our discount tent…”) and we were itching to drag the caravan off the drive, hitch up and head for the sun – which shouldn’t be too hard to find in France, right?

We are ‘pensioneers’, so we can come and go as we like – and we do like. We live in North Devon, so the Plymouth-Roscoff crossing on Brittany Ferries is our favourite port of call; because we use it so frequently, we are members of its Club Voyage France, which means we get 30% off every crossing and free breakfast if we take the overnight option (which of course we do).

Crossings and campsites

Roscoff, with its beautiful, solid Breton architecture, is a welcoming

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