How to get to us….

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Les Pradies is in the hills above Les Junies which is a small village around 4 km from Prayssac which, in turn, is around 20km west of Cahors.

There are innumerable means of getting to Les Pradies but the most sensible involve a ferry and car or alternatively, a flight and hire car.

Ferries

The following distances are approximate:

Calais 550 miles

Le Havre 465 miles

Cherbourg 500 miles

Caen 425 miles

When we take the ferry, we usually use the Calais route. We usually get a 10 am crossing and, if we drive like the clappers the whole way and stick to the motorways with only brief comfort stops for us and the dog, we can be at Les Pradies with the kettle on by 10pm. Equally, on the return trip, we can leave at 9 am and catch the 8 pm ferry. This is just our experience – please take into account the the driver often feels it necessary to partake of stimulants (of the entirely legal kind) and we are at (because we don’t speed, obviously!) the speed limit pretty much the whole way. We’ve never done the trip with children and I should imagine they are slightly more tricky for that length of time in a car than a Labrador.

Planes

The nearest airports are:

Bergerac 1 hr 15 mins

Toulouse 1 hr 30 mins

Rodez 1 hr 50 mins

We’ve found Bergerac to be the best point of arrival by plane. Both Flybe and Ryanair fly here and there are a number of hire car companies basesd there (National, Hertz and Europcar) which we usually book via www.holidayautos.co.uk. The drive to Les Pradies is rather nice from Bergerac. Toulouse has the widest range of arrivals (including Gatwick on BA and Easyjet and Leeds, Belfast and Edinburgh with Jet2) and is a fairly straight forward drive up the motorway to Cahors. Rodez is only served by Ryanair and, while the journey is very pretty, it is quite long and quite twisty!