How to get to the Apartment
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By Car
We are just over 10 hours drive from Calais or Dunkerque.
To cross the Channel you can go via the Eurotunnel (
www.eurotunnel.com/uk/home/ ) or there is a choice of car ferry. Click on any of the following for more information or to book your travel
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- www.poferries.com
- www.directferries.co.uk/seafrance.htm
- www.dfdsseaways.co.uk/
- www.ferryonline.co.uk/
from Cherbourg just over 10 hours, from St Malo 8 and a half hours and from
Roscoff just over 10 hours. Look at
www.brittany-ferries.com for information about these ferry journeys to France.
To plan your journey once in France, go to either http://maps.google.co.uk, www.mappy.co.uk or www.viamichelin.co.uk for directions.
By Plane
The three closest airports to us are at Pau, Tarbes and Toulouse.
Pau Pyrénées Airport (www.pau.aeroport.fr) is only 80.5 kilometres (by toll road) from our apartment in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and the journey by car takes an hour. Air France (www.airfrance.co.uk) flies there from various French destinations. Other airlines have flown there from UK airports at various times, it may be worth investigating to see who currently flies to Pau as well as Air France. Toulouse-Blagnac Airport ( http://www.toulouse.aeroport.fr/en/) is 155 kilometers away, the car journey takes about 1 hour 40 minutes. Several airlines fly into Toulouse. Easy Jet ( www.easyjet.com) from London Gatwick and Bristol; FlyBe ( www.flybe.com) from a number of Irish and UK destinations, including Dublin, Edinburgh and Birmingham; Jet2 ( www.jet2.com) from Manchester; British Airways ( www.britishairways.com) from Heathrow.
Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport (http://www.tlp.aeroport.fr/home/) is only just over 21 kilometres away and a car journey takes about half an hour. You can now fly to this airport twice a week from London Stansted with Ryan air (www.ryanair.com). Apart from that, Air France is the main airline that flies here, but there are seasonal and occasional charter flights from Great Britain so it may also be worth checking the airport website.
Hire car is available from all of these airports. For a list of car hire companies for
- Pau Airport click on http://http://www.pau.aeroport.fr/en/passenger-services/rent-a-car
- Toulouse Airport click on http://www.toulouse.aeroport.fr/en/shops-and-services/rent-a-car
- Tarbes airport click on http://www.tlp.aeroport.fr/gp/Parking-and-transportation/93
By Train
You can catch the Eurostar from London St. Pancras to Lille where you can change to the
TGV heading to Toulouse. The total journey time can be as little as 8.40 hours.
Or you can take the Eurostar to Paris and then the TGV to Tarbes. This will involve
travelling across Paris as the Eurostar arrives at Paris Nord and the trains to Tarbes
leave from Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2. The journey from Paris to Tarbes is about 6 hours.
For details of both journeys click on
www.eurostar.com. From there choose Travel Information and then Timetables.
There is a bus service to Bagenères-de-Bigorre from Tarbes. Go to http://www.ter-sncf.com/Regions/midi_pyrenees/fr/. Then click on 'Horaires & trafic', then 'Fiche Horaire', and then in the space for 'Recherche par Ligne' select 'Cars régioneaux-944 Tarbes-Bagnères-Pic du Midi' and when teh ename is displayed below the selection box slick on this.
