Charlet is approx 28 km south west of Limoges and the A20 Paris-Toulouse autoroute.

Leave the A20 at junction 33, direction Perigueux/Aixe-sur-Vienne, on the N21. Head to Sereilhac and take the D34 to St Laurent.

Limoges is about a day's drive from the channel ports. Driving can be undertaken by motorway from Calais or Boulogne to Limoges.

Limoges has an airport with direct daily flights from London Stansted year round on Ryanair. Ryannair also operates a service to Poitiers which is a bit further away.

Driving times from the UK and within France:

Limoges to St Auvent 18 km 20mn
Angouleme to St Auvent 72km 1h 6mn
Poitiers to St Auvent 87 km 1h 31mn
Bordeaux to St Auvent 163 km 2h 14mn
La Rochelle to St Auvent 185km 2h 47mn
Toulouse to St Auvent 325km 4h 5mn
Paris to St Auvent 372km 3h 36mn
Beauvais to St Auvent 502km 5h 40mn
Roscoff to St Auvent 609km 7h 40mn
Cherbourg to St Auvent 623km 8h 35mn
Calais to St Auvent 703km 7h 17mn
Biddenden to St Auvent 802km 11h 3mn
London to St Auvent 845km 11h 15mn

By Rail

The most comfortable way to travel is probably via Eurostar from London to Lille, and from Lille to Angouleme (66mn drive/72km from saint Auvent). Hire car at Angouleme train station is possible and likely to be necessary unless somebody else could come and get you. Since the TGV runs from Lille station it is much better to change there than in Paris (which would require travelling across Paris).

By Air

Flying to the region is also easy, but here there is a choice of airports.

Limoges has an airport but flights aren't direct. You can change in Paris or Clermond Ferrand. Although you would not need to hire a car (as you could use taxis to get around - although a taxi may be cheaper in the long run)the flights tend to be more expensive that at other airports.

Buzz fly to Poitiers which is the closest airport served by a low cost airline. However the last flight that would get you to France in time leaves London Stanted on Friday 20 July 2001 at 12:50pm. There is a return flight on Sunday at 18:00pm.Poitiers is about 1 hour drive away. There are flights on Wenesday, Friday (12:50pm to France and 15:50 from France), Saturday (18:00pm and 21:05pm) and Sunday (14:55 pm and 18:00pm)

Slightly further away is La Rochelle which has a Saturday morning flight from London Stansted (8:00am)and a return flight on Sunday at 22:05pm. These flights are also from buzz. La Rochelle is about 3 hours drive away. There are flights on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday (12:50pm to France and 15:55pm from France), Saturday (08:00am and 11:05am) and Sunday (19:00pm and 22:05pm).

Further afield there are flights into Bordeaux (buzz flies there and probably some other low cost airlines - the times are not posted on the website but tickets are bookable now) and Toulouse (buzz only flies there on Sunday mornings so it would not practical unless you want to take a 2 week holiday in Southern France - other low cost airlines probably fly there).
Go flies to Bordeaux and to Toulouse (I think! - their website is down at the moment)

Neither easyjet nor virginexpress fly to anywhere usefull in France (ie they only fly to Nice).

www.buzzaway.com - Buzz
www.go-fly.com - Go

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