Thanks everyone; you certainly appear to be an excellent forum. Michelin is marvellous; it is now a tool I will use. It gives me 5hrs from Cherbourg and 3hrs from St Malo. Now I will start researching ferry availability but I expect to use either/both of those routes, my long-long-time ago memory tells me the St Malo was an infrequent service. I will put my 'naive' questions into other parts of the forum until I build up my information (getting the little & very slow grey cells working). Thanks again Quintain