Use our Travel forum for recommendations on everything from day trips to the best family-friendly holiday destinations. Well after our holiday this year in Devon where it rained every day bar one, we have decided to go to France next year! The weather in the Vendee region is suppose to be hot like the South of France so we have decided to go there. We found it wasn't as hot as south of France, and quite a few cloudy type days only 1 day of rain in 14 days.
We were near there in August, it gets very busy round the coastal areas. We travelled from Cherbourg , and it was 5 or 6 hours I seem to recall. This year we're trying Spain for a change. We've been to the Vendee twice, the first year it was baking everyday and then the second it was yucky at the same time of year.
Nice area though it took us about 5 hours from Calais I think. We are planning to go in June as this will be last year to go holiday during school term the twins will be 4yo. I was hoping that the weather would be hot. Am I deluding myself?
Was plenty hot enought I always seemed to get sunburned , some lovely sandy beaches, day trips to La Rochelle, and Les Sables is a lively place to go for dinner and has a nice enough town beach too. We always went camping at St Julien des Landes with Canvas. We would break up the journey with a stay overnight, but then there were three stroppy kids in the back of a car without aircon and had to drive from London to Dover too , you may well be able to do it in one go.
There always used to be a man who strode along the beach at Les Sables shouting "Beignets! Log in to update your newsletter preferences. We're going via Calais and can't remember how long it's supposed to take but we decided to stop off overnight - I think it's do-able in one day if you set off early but we didn't mind taking longer to prolong the holiday - only going for one week.
