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our rack isn't tiltable, we just access the boot through through the fold-down back seats and make sure our boat bags are at that end of the boot.

I didn’t cancel my sailing until I had a quotation number for the new one, so it meant I didn’t ever have a moment with no booking, as far as I know

Arrived back from 10 nights in Domine Des Ormes with Eurocamp.

Ferry appeared to be only half full again on return even though car deck was full(WB Yeats).

Huge amount of Irish there on site, I would say about 90% of perople staying with Eurocamp were Irish.

I'd guess that will change over the next week or two once the UK gets their school holidays.

Good site, bar probably a little small, wouldn't like to be there at peak time.

Show GAA in the bar(through what appeared to be an IPTV dodgy box suprisingly).

Plenty of places to visit around the site.

Anyone looking to break up the journey to/from Cherbourg I recommend Alligator Bay next to Mont Saint Michel

I’m in a lovely independent campsite in Dordogne region at the moment. It’s still fairly quiet here as season not in full swing yet. No pool slides or any of that.

We headed out with BF from Rosslare two weeks ago. Stopped in Jack White's for our dinner on the way down and brought a picnic with us for the boat. Boat was fierce rocky for the first few hours. I had to take some anti-sickness tablets and go to bed. It stopped rocking about 1.30am and was grand then.

Spent a week in Des Ormes. Our first visit there since 2018 and it was brilliant. We booked with Canvas so were up the back of the campsite but still an easy walk to everything. Mostly surrounded by French but a few Irish. Kids had a ball playing soccer with our French neighbours every evening. They tried to teach them to play gaelic on the last night, ended up being a match between ourselves, French, Glaswegians & some folks from Mayo. The new Dome is amazing - kids were in their element in it. As mentioned above, the bar is tiny & dear enough, we had only one drink in it. Food options let it down too as there is only really the pizzeria and it was closed except for Takeaway most of the week. We were grand bbqing etc at the mobile. We went to the little market in St. Leonard as well on the Sunday which is good fun.

We moved to La Grande Metairie at Carnac then for a few nights. Lovely site, pitches are a lot more compact than in Des Ormes & there was no space for the kids to play football at the pitch. But it has a lovely pool area, staff were all lovely & it's close enough to Carnac for the beach etc.

Back home via the WB Yeats - felt like they were jamming the cars on but then the ferry felt quite empty when we were on it. Need to prep better for the food options on the way home as we ate on the boat & it wasn't great.

Already making plans for next year!

No, it's still desperate, but didn't bother us.

We didn't do the market in Carnac but the size of St. Leonard was grand for us. I'd run around the village a couple of times during the week so wasn't expecting much, given the size and general sleepiness of it.

The Dome is very Centre-Parcs but last time we were there, it rained for the entire week so I would be loath to go somewhere that doesn't have some sort of indoor pool. And to be honest, the outdoor pool was still quite cold...our smallest was shivering coming out of it so we were glad to be able to swap over to the Dome some of the days.

Just a little warning to anyone driving in France.

I just got a speeding ticket (€45) in the post today for doing 98km/h in an 80 zone at 10:30pm on the way home from dinner in Les Sables d'Olonne two weeks ago.

I always wrongly assumed that those speed cameras couldn't do anything for cars registered in another country.

This happen to anyone else?

There's every chance I got caught again on the motorway on the way back to Roscoff. Had to up the ante a bit as we encountered 4 separate accidents on the way & ended up taking three hours longer than expected.

How long do you have to pay it before it increases? We got flashed by a camera around Lille last week and I assumed that we'd never hear about it. We've been caught at least twice in previous years and nothing ever arrived.

There is a speed camera directly outside Les Ormes and we got a ticket. Seems like most of the people staying there have got a ticket also. It happened on 21/06 and the letter arrived yesterday.

Hi everyone, the Auchan Hypermarche in Cherbourg's wine isle is halved. They have much less wine than last year.

Thanks Drumpot, appreciate the review!! Must do some serious thinking

Another +1 , for Le Littoral. Spend 3 years in a row going there. Not to big and not too small and caters for everyone. surrounding area was great to explore and walks and drives on the coast were great. also no midgies

BF to Roscoff the other week, first time with the dog. Awful experience. No place for toileting, except the square piece of ground allocated near the kennels. No fake grass, nothing. And of course some owners with male dogs leaving them urinate all over the area,a hose provided not used to wash down. In fact one owner happy out to leave his dog raise his leg several times on the hose.

Our female young dog was distressed for the journey, that was more her being seperated from us than poor kennels. For the price we paid, a larger walking area could be provided, a 5msq area on a 14 hour sailing is poor. Trained dogs colour f it hard for toileting.

Stayed in Pin Parasol, couldn't fault it. Except maybe the loud Irish that take over the bar for GAA. Not everyone is into GAA!

We are heading back to Normandy tomorrow for three nights after a week in the Dordogne. 33 this afternoon with a breeze - it’s lovely. Mostly Dutch on this site. Few enough Irish this far south.

Not aware of that being offered by Eurocamp but if you give them your booking reference number along with the booking numbers and family names of the people you're travelling with, they'll do their best to accommodate you, assuming you're all in the same style of mobile home