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Things to do and see in North West France
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2013 festivals and events calendar
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Le Mans 24-Hour Car Race - Sarthe
22 Jun 2013 - 23 Jun 2013
This event is massively popular, attracting owners and drivers from the most prestigious companies. The Le Mans 24-hour race tests the drivers' skill, the cars' performance and the endurance of both.
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Bayeux Medieval Festival
06 Jul 2013 - 07 Jul 2013
Every first weekend in July, Bayeux hosts its magnificent Medieval Festival. The town is filled with crazy jesters, acrobats, jugglers, fair damsels and brave knights.
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World Bridge Festival - Calvados
15 Jul 2013 - 28 Jul 2013
The Casino Barrière de Deauville is the venue for the annual World Bridge Festival, now in its 55th year. The attractive Norman coastal resort of Deauville welcomes around 400 pairs for this two week event.
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Festival de Cornouaille - Brittany
23 Jul 2013 - 28 Jul 2013
Concerts, street parades and street musicians bring the perfectly preserved medieval town of Quimper to life every July. Now in its 90th year!
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Honfleur Jazz Festival
15 Aug 2013 - 19 Aug 2013
The bustling town of Honfleur in Normandy is to host its annual Jazz Festival from the 15th to the 19th of August. The festival, now in its 5th year, is part of the Jazz aux Greniers Festival. It welcomes a variety of Jazz artists, including some big names like Claude Bolling, Boby Durham and the Ladies Blues Trio.
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Getting to North West France
Travelling to Brittany
Fly to the regional airports of Brest, Nantes, Quimper, Lorient and Rennes, and there are also budget flights from the UK to Dinard by Ryanair and Brest and Rennes by flybe. There are ferry ports at Cherbourg (Normandy), Caen, Roscoff and St Malo, or the drive from Calais to Rennes is about 525km and will take approx 5 hours. By TGV train, Paris to Rennes takes about 2 hours and Paris to Brest and Quimper both take about 4.5 hours.
Travelling to Normandy
There are several regional airports in Normandy with links to Paris. The ferry ports of Cherbourg, Dieppe and Le Havre are the most convenient for travel to Normandy although Calais to Caen is 345 km and will take about 3 hours. Calais to Rouen is about 200km and takes about 2 hours. Normandy is well connected by rail to Paris but is not on the TGV route.
Travelling to Pay De Le Loire
There are two airports at Nantes and the other just into the next department at La Rochelle which is served from the UK by Ryanair. By car, Nantes is approx 675km from Calais and will take you around 6 hours. The nearest port is St Malo in Brittany which is about 180km and will take around 3 hours. There is a TGV service fron Paris to La Croisic.
