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Travelling to La Sablière

By car

The closest port is St Malo, 4:45 hrs drive away. Brittany Ferries run overnight ferries from Portsmouth. Calais (Eurotunnel and ferry) and Dunkerque (ferry) are both around 8 hours drive away. There are also ferries from Portsmouth to Caen (5:30 hrs drive away), Le Harve (6 hours drive), and Cherbourg (summer only) (6:15 hrs drive).Other ferries from Newhaven-Dieppe (6 hours drive away), Poole-Cherbourg and Plymouth-Roscoff (6 hours drive)

Flying

There are four airports locally - Bordeaux (55 mins drive away), La Rochelle (1:15 hr), Bergerac (1:35 hr), Limoges (2 hours). You can hire cars at all these airports.EasyJet fly from: Belfast, Bristol, Gatwick, Glasgow, Luton, ManchesterRyanair: Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, StanstedAirFrance and British Airways have scheduled flights into Bordeaux

By train

La Sablière is 1 hour’s drive from both Bordeaux Saint-Jean and Angoulême stations. There is a direct TGV from Paris (Gare Montparnasse) which takes just over 2 hours.There is car hire at Gare de Bordeaux Saint-Jean and Bordeaux centre. You can also take a train to Montendre (about 7 km away) but please remember we are in the middle of the countryside and realistically you will need a car.

ARRIVING AT LA SABLIÈRE

La Sablière, 17130 ROUFFIGNAC, Charente-Maritime, FranceLa Sablière is just over 1km south of Rouffignac (17130), at the crossroads of the D253E1.From the north, leave the A10 L'Aquitaine at junction 37; from Bordeaux and the south, junction 38 (or 39b - follow signs to "Angoulême" and the N10 to avoid the 3.70€ toll).Please be aware there are two places called Rouffignac in southwest France. If you are searching with a mapping app make sure you search for "17130 Rouffignac". It may be easier to navigate to Montendre - the nearest town.Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/3xu2XDyytoCzXEzS7GPS co-ordinates: 45°19'23"N 0°26'57"W (45.323056, -0.449167)