A little about Dol-de-Bretagne and how to get there, and a little more about the surrounding area for camping holidays

Dol-de-Bretagne is one of those little towns in northern Brittany where you just clip the outside as you pass on the N176 E401 either to Dinan, Dinard or St Malo going westwards or Le Mont St Michel if going the other way. Blink and you've missed it in either direction, and like many other small places in France that is part of the attraction - small but beautifully made. For your convenience we have linked to a map of the area so that you can get your bearings.

Dol is roughly 7KM, or about 5 miles from the north Brittany beaches and is so easy to get to it is hadly worth our passing comment on, but we always try to give the best directions to a resort so that you won't need to consult a map to get there.

From Calais: Get onto the A16 to Abbeyville and then follow signs for Neufchatel-en-Bray and then Caen, Avranches, Pontorson and Dol.

From le Havre, Deauville and Caen simply head for Avranches, Pontorson and Dol

From Cherbourg you simply make your way down the peninsular heading for Avranches and get onto the N175 there to Pontorson and Dol.

This little place was first built in the middle Ages and there are still some streets packed with really old buildings, most notably its central axis, the pretty Grande-Rue, where one such dates back as far as the eleventh century, alongside an assortment of 500-year-old half-timbered houses that look down on the bustle of shoppers below. If you like exploring old cathderals then this is the place for you becuase Dol still has a huge granite cathedral with its strange, squat, tiled towers.

Thankfully lots of us have different tastes, and that statement applies equally to camping holidays as much as anything else, but Dol should appeal to all ages and tastes really becuase there is the beach a short distance away and masses of history for the older generations such as Le Mont St Michel also nearby to the east, and Bayeux where the huge tapestry depicting the battle of Hastings is housed slightly further away and nearer to Caen.