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By Air Limoges Limoges airport is around an hour from Lussac les Chateaux. www.ryanair.com - Flights from London Stansted, London Luton, Bournemouth, Bristol, Nottingham-East Midlands, Edinburgh, and Liverpool www.flybe.com - Flights from Manchester, Newcastle, Southampton, Belfast City, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guernsey, and Jersey. Poitiers Poitiers airport is around 45 minutes from Lussac les Chateaux www.ryanair.com - Flights from London Stansted, Birmingham and Edinburgh. There are rental car companies at both these airports and cars can be booked on-line at the airline sites.
By rail Poitiers has a direct TGV (Trains a Grande Vitesse or fast trains) service to London using French trains and the Eurostar which takes around five hours. You either have to change at Lille, which only involves changing train platforms, or Paris, which does involve getting from the Gare du Montparnasse to the Gare du Nord but there is a direct metro line for this. Limoges has a service (on regular trains not the TGV) from the Gare d'Austerlitz which takes around 4 hours from Paris. There is a local train from Poitiers to Limoges which stops at Lussac les Chateaux and Le Dorat but there are only around seven trains a day www.sncf.co.uk
By car Naturally, you will have to use a ferry or Eurotunnel for part of this journey! The best ferry ports to come to are Caen and La Havre which are around 5-6 hours from the office. Calais is around 7-8 hours from the office. LDLines - from Portsmouth and Rosslare to La Havre, Newhaven to Dieppe, and Dover to Dieppe and Boulogne sur Mer - www.ldlines.co.uk Brittany Ferries - from Portsmouth to Caen, Cherbourg and St Malo, Poole to Cherbourg, Plymouth and Cork to Roscoff - www.brittany-ferries.co.uk SeaFrance - from Dover to Calais - www.seafrance.com P&O Ferries - from Dover to Calais - www.poferries.com Eurotunnel - from Folkestone to Calais - www.eurotunnel.com |
