When & where in France.

[WildBunch]

We are planning a trip to France along the Normandy / Brittany coast. We are intend to use a mixture of Aires & Camp sites. We are thinking in the next few months, out of season. Any recommendations as to when to get some nice weather, say a bit like a English summer day. Also any recommendations for campsites in that area, or aires for that matter. We have a dog, so we need dog friendly sites & beaches.

 

[ChrisL]

We are planning a trip to France along the Normandy / Brittany coast. We are intend to use a mixture of Aires & Camp sites. We are thinking in the next few months, out of season. Any recommendations as to when to get some nice weather, say a bit like a English summer day. Also any recommendations for campsites in that area, or aires for that matter. We have a dog, so we need dog friendly sites & beaches.

Most campsites will be shut until March/April, aires will be open as will the Camping car park sites, Mont St Michelle is an interesting place to visit with several aires close bye, i'm sure others will have more suggestions.

 

[denisejoe]

We generally go in to those areas in June and September and usually have reasonable weather but like the UK can't be guaranteed!

 

[xsparks]

Bayeux for the tapestry and war graves.
Arromanche, Pegassus Bridge.

 

[Andy MacD]

Had that idea last year, mid April. Weather was cold and windy so quickly moved south to Loire valley, loads of Aires there and also open campsites if that’s your thing. Going again this year mid March but heading further south to Dordogne then will come north as it gets warmer. That time of year you don’t have to worry about booking things so get a weather app and go where the warm weather is.

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[suavecarve]

This might be of interest

Brittany all the Aires. Loads of them

We found this map from a TO I ve taken photos and it is pretty self explanatory. We have been seeing lots of Aires not noted on the apps. If touring Brittany you may want to bookmark this I took them all the same way so no idea why some are sideways. I LL do a scan and copy when we get home.

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

Edit, and this one

Lack of Brittany threads

We are off in the morning to Brittany. We have been before about 6 or 7 years ago and in between jobs I ve been trying to find out where MHFers have been but the search function brings up Brittany ferries all the time. So I went to my default of DBK to find some information with his recent time...

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

 

[15edward]

We’ve been to Brittany twice. The first time in a Gite at the end of September. Weather was warm and sunny. We drove around and found what I described as my perfect campsite. We went there last year in May in the motorhome . Weather was warm and sunny!
we plan to go again this May In the van with family staying in gites. I’m hoping our luck holds…
Camping du Pont de l’etang at Cap Frehel
it’s a municipal campsite, quite big, no marked pitches, in the dunes under the pine trees directly off three most beautiful beaches - two of which are dog friendly (inspite of the notice in the campsite.) If there were 10 people on the beaches 7 had dogs and that was busy!

 

[xsparks]

Standing stones at Carnac are quite something to see.

 

[15edward]

It’s warmer in Morbihan
we stayed at municipal site at Gavres

 

[Manic]

We’ve stayed at Camaret sur mer, on the Aire which is close to a nice beaches and walk along cliff path to see loads of ww2 gun emplacements

( France - 29570 )Camaret-sur-Mer, Rue Georges Ancey

Bel endroit, parcellé, calme. Aire de nuit 10€ / 24h, 90 places. Le port et le centre-ville sont à environ 15 minutes. Vue magnifique, à côté des menhirs. La plage de rêve est à environ 10 minutes à pied sur une belle route. Paiement à la machine avec carte de crédit ou carte bancaire. Vidange/...

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[Spriddler]

We are planning a trip to France along the Normandy / Brittany coast. Any recommendations as to when to get some nice weather, say a bit like a English summer day.

You won't be far enough South for anything different from the same English South coast weather.