SelfGuided™ Motorcycle Touring Holidays

Choice of two destinations!

Tour S04 - France
5 day Holiday (Longer if required!)

Normandy & Brittany

Two great features of this tour: the close proximity to the UK and for your first tour abroad it represents excellent value. Use SeaFrance and take the long way from Calais or better still, sail with Brittany Ferries from Portsmouth to Caen or Cherbourg for a short ride to a traditional Normandy-style B&B.

Our first B&B, ideal for discovering Normandy and Brittany, has a motorcycle-riding English owner and offers a very warm welcome, tea and coffee facilities, secure bike parking, a drying room and games room with bar and guests' lounge. The home-cooked optional evening meals are usually very popular! There is a small, local village with a bar and restaurant within only a few minutes walk and a larger town with more places to eat less than a couple of miles away.

In response to demand we also now have a second B&B in Normandy which is ideally located for discovering the Normandy Landing Beaches. Sandwiched between two coastlines, the property is only ten minutes away from beaches overlooking Jersey and in the other direction is only 16 miles from the Normandy coastline where you will find all the famous D-Day landing sites. Closer to hand is Carentan, in the heart of the American landing zone, where the famous “Band of Brothers” passed through.

You will accommodated in a beautiful English-owned Normandy farmhouse with lounge (English satellite TV) and where rooms have private facilities and tea/coffee making facilities. There is a continental style breakfast to set you up for the day and you can even request eggs (cooked how you like them) supplied by the B&B’s own free range chickens. The home-cooked optional evening meals with wine and coffee are popular and good value. Your hosts are even happy to provide a drop off and collection service to their local town in the evening if you wish to venture out. Secure parking is provided in the barn. Laundry service.

Explore the beaches along the coast around Arromanches, visit the American Cemetery at St Laurent de Mer and look out over Omaha Beach - you don't need a Hollywood DVD to picture the heroics of the Normandy Landings. Just visit the museums and concrete bunkers along the coast and work it out for yourself!

And there's much more. Visit Falaise, the birthplace of William the Conqueror. Go and see the stunning Bayeux tapestry that records and celebrates the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Ride out to Mont St Michel but don't get cut off by the incoming tide! Enjoy a blast along the Mulsanne straight then visit the automotive museum at the Le Mans circuit. And don't forget Brittany! See the historic town of St Malo or ride past ancient stone circles on your way to the southern Brittany coastline and the old fortress town of Vannes.

Whatever your agenda, there is a huge variety within only a short distance and you are guaranteed a warm welcome. Do it!