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My daughter worked the summers after LC & first year in college for a well known camping holiday firm. The staff whether they were kids club, reception or maintenance were always delighted to receive items from departing guests. Most are young people, many away from home for the first time, some working at sites not too close to supermarkets & having bicycles sometimes as their only form of transport. Of course, it also helped their pockets!

€7.81 for breakfast on the Brittany Ferries Amorique on the way back. By the time we'd added in drinks it came to €53 for a group of five. Great value and sets you up for the long drive home.

I'd suggest driving for a few minutes to Carantec for fresh baguettes, pain au chocolate and croissants. Boulangerie-Patisserie Demais Patrick, 8 Place de la Liberation opens at 7am on Sundays. http://www.boulangerie-patisserie-demais.fr/ Then drive down to the nearby beach to eat. Great start to your French stay!

Much prefer to just hit the road and grab a McDonalds further down the road.

Driving on the right is not as daunting as it sounds. You adjust very quickly. Only places I've had issues is coming out of a car park in a supermarket. You're more likely to have an incident one or two days after you get home.

As others have mentioned, your co pilot has a role to play. If you're nervous, I'd actually suggest that you stay in the line of traffic as you get of the boat - never mind a slight detour for breakfast. That way you'll be in a line if Irish cars for about 45 mins which helps you adjust.

Meant to reply earlier. That's strange. On the 25th of May we got our car serviced and included as an item in the servicing list was the same as every other year, Code RA, Skoda Roadside Assistance, valid for 1 year with ROI and outside ROI numbers. The Service Manager specifically mentioned that it covers Europe since they know we head of for the summer.

I'm just back from two weeks in Hippocampe and then a week in Les Charmettes. I'm sure we must have rubbed shoulders at the bar in La Sirene!

Hippocampe was filled with Irish outnumbering the French and Spanish completely with no British or Dutch that I saw until the very start of July. On the road which I was on (of 13 mobiles) 8 were Irish and one French on the week of the 23rd June.

I was pretty blown away with the level of night-time entertainment in La Sirene - very professionally run. Caught the end of "Feel Collins" (I'm a closet Phil Collins fan 😂) and it was very well assembled and appeared to have the place pumping.

We cycled around a lot - we brought two bikes and hired others. We found that the restaurants in Saint-Cyprien Plage, Argelès Plage and Argelès Port are seemingly all very good, you'd be reasonably hard-pressed to find a bad one.

Drove down to Barcelona early one day - great city to hit but I think I entered the periphery of the LEZ while looking for parking. Dunno what the outcome of that will be.

I popped into WBS in Roscoff on Friday evening and "topped-up". I wasn't sure what to expect. Though they didn't appear to do tastings (and I had no time for one), the selection and level of stock was impressive and I got what I think was a good selection of wine at good prices. I even got some Calvados to try out. They have a shop in Cherbourg too, just a bit off the N13 route as you hit the town. I'd recommend it now for sure.

Wine and Beer Supermarket

It’s just off the roundabout for the ring road around Cherbourg. There’s an Auchan across the road that can be good for cured meats, cheeses etc

Ah yeah - a great site if you have younger kids, in my opinion. Beyond about ~12 years it still can be enjoyed, but there are better options.

Generally speaking, the on-site facilities are great and the beaches are only 20mins away on a bike (over very flat terrain). I'm not a fan of the layout of the newer section - maybe due to the lack of mature hedging and the linear layout - I'd try to stay in the older part if possible, but that's from talking with zero experience of staying there.

Pools are well supervised and they don't have a budgie-smugglers-only rule, the kids-club is seemingly well run.

Negatives about the locations are that the roads around Les Mathes are (intentionally?) in an appalling state since the 90's and every trip to a supermarket takes 20 mins drive-time over said potholes. But nevermind that - the beaches in the opposite direction are just divine.

Leave all of the internal doors open. Open the windows as much as you can, etc.

If it gets really bad, you could try spraying the outside walls and roof of the mobile with a mist of water and repeating that a few times. The drying effect of the water evaporating will drop the internal temps (but you look like an oddball ;) ).

Bring a fan and those blue cool bag blocks.

put frozen blocks in front of fan.

Super tips thanks

We're in Les Menhirs at the moment and the mobile home comes with two plug-in fans. As others have said, leaving all the windows open, drawing the curtains and having the fans run makes a huge difference. Temperatures are much more bearable at night time though and we've had no trouble sleeping.

We were in La Garangeoire for the last two weeks until Sunday so I dread to think what it's like there now. At least in Carnac there's some relief down at the beach where it feels a good bit more pleasant and cooler with the sea breezes.

We are arriving in Le Pin Parasol next week. Thanks for reply!

Will be staying in Clary's plage on Sunday 17th, any one know if they will be showing all Ireland final or where to watch in the area??

Woyld be surprised if it's not being shown in the bar on site.