We like the look of the Island Retreats trip, a low-key journey from Portsmouth to the Scilly Isles, Channel Islands, Brittany and Normandy.
The change suited Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard just fine.
In March they competed in the Spi Ouest France regatta in Brittany, France.
A package including overnight sleeper travel from London to Venice, and Rome to London, train transfers between Venice, Florence and Rome and six nights in three-star hotels with breakfast, would cost from £819.' Laura Johnson from Travel Counsellors: 'For boats, Brittany has some excellent routes, with a great choice of waterways, from wide river estuaries to canals.
'Brittany Ferries (0871 244 1400; brittanyferries.co.uk) offers 14-night villa breaks on the northern coast of Spain from £1,740 providing easy access to both the countryside and the coast, including return crossings from Plymouth to Santander for two adults, one car and a two-year-old child with a four-berth cabin suite each way.
Every August Lorient, on the south coast of Brittany, hosts the Interceltic Festival of music (festival-interceltique.com) where you can live out your Asterix and Obelix fantasies.
Brittany Ferries, which carried him across the Channel last summer, offered him free crossings to D-day events for the rest of his life after learning of his exploits.
According to Brittany Ferries, only 17% of its car-ferry traffic originates from France.
Mr Rajoy would have none of it: Spain had "scrupulously" done all it was required to; nay, its decisions had averted a far worse disaster.The real issue was forcefully raised by President Jacques Chirac: what now? "Draconian" measures, he suggested, recalling the tanker Erika, which ran aground and similarly ravaged France's Brittany coast in 1999.
ON JANUARY 1st 29-year-old Brittany Maynard (pictured) was diagnosed with brain cancer.
The 29-year-old draughtsman from Yorkshire, who moved his home from Brittany to Paris to Ghent, was the only Englishman among that select band of continentals, the cycling champions.
