Can't see the problem getting there - part of the fun's in the travelling whether flying to new places and getting the train (there's plenty of cheap routes in), or hiring a car.
On second thoughts, following last year's nerve racking exploits in hire car, get the train!!
Me & our lass are thinking about making a week of it, sailing to Spain from Weymouth and chugging along across the Pyrenees in the 'Love Bus' to Perpignan then up to Brittany for the return ferry.
Saw a decent parking spot in the town square outside Bar Britz!!

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We're all on tight budgets! I'm planning a week's holiday with no accommodation, train or plane fares but just the diesel and ferry costs - plus the time off work.
Not exactly the height of luxury living in a converted plumbers van squatting in lay-byes!!

No more on a tighter one than me pal and i manage it every year....still don't understand what you think is so difficult about getting there.

Not everyone can take time off work or take kids out of school-so a direct flight helps in that respect!

Of course it does, but even without direct flights it's still only 1-2.5 hours extra travel - hardly a killer !!

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So tell me how I can get there leaving after 8pm Friday and get back by sImilar Sunday without it costing a fortune....

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