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  • The properties offered by this 22-year-old UK company range from modern apartments to stone or timbered cottages, mostly French-owned.

  • In this friendly tourist hotel, you can choose between a room with shower and WC, shower only, or just a washbasin. Though basic, bedrooms are prettily decorated, with pine furniture. Rue des Carmes is a busy central shopping street between the Palais des Congrès and Palais de Justice, close to the cathedral.

  • Auberge de l’Abbaye, Le Bec-Hellouin

    This half-timbered 18th-century inn with five comfortable, cottage-style bedrooms sits opposite the entrance to the abbey of Notre-Dame du Bec. Run by the same family for more than 40 years, it radiates friendly efficiency and offers meals both formal and informal, inside or out on its terrace.

  • A tall factory chimney proclaims the utilitarian past of this converted mill. Locals dine here on special occasions; travellers will find five neat bedrooms, with floral bedcovers, modern wall lights and the odd beam.

  • Like most houses in Servon, the front of this former presbytery looks onto the village, the back over open countryside. Three bedrooms share the main building with the excellent restaurant; the rest are in the former schoolhouse next door. Mont-St-Michel is a scant half-hour away.

  • The 15th-century auberge is one of a handful of hotels at the foot of Mont St-Michel and close to the causeway (useful, since all cars have to be left outside its walls). There is a large, busy restaurant at street level, while on the first floor, a pleasantly rustic calm takes over.

  • As a sideline to their main business, Brittany Ferries arranges self-catering accommodation in a selection of gîtes . Although they can’t match the choice offered by some of the specialist companies, deals combining ferry travel and accommodation are certainly worth investigating.

  • Camping de la Vée, Bagnoles-de-l’Orne

    The joy of La Vée is its position – close to Bagnoles and the Andaines Forest (see Forêt des Andaines). Its 250 “pitches” are in leafy surroundings, with amenities including a snack bar, and recreation and games rooms.

  • Camping de l’Ermitage, Donville-les-Bains

    With its own bakery, delicatessen, snack bar and visiting traders, you seldom need to leave this large, well-run campsite. Close by, you can gather shells on the sandy beach, ride, play tennis, or relax in the thalassotherapy centre.

  • Hard to believe, but this peaceful campsite tucked away on an island is only a short drive from Dieppe. There are plenty of indoor amusements, but with the Arques Forest, Varenne R iver and a lake on the doorstep, this is really a place for outdoor types.

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