General Travel Information Table

Regions	Travel
	Closest Airports	Flight time from London / south east UK	Approximate number of flights per week from UK*	Duration of airport transfer
Champagne	Paris CDG	1 hour	Very high	80-100 minutes or 40 minutes by rail
	Paris Orly	1 hour	High	90-110 minutes
	Paris Beauvais	1 hour	Low	2 hours
Bordeaux	Bordeaux	1 1/2 hours	Medium (summer) Low winter availability from regional airports	20-45 minutes
	Bergerac	1 1/2 hours	Medium (summer) Low (winter)	1 hour
Burgundy	Lyon Saint Expury	1 1/2 hours	Medium	1 3/4 hours
	Geneva	1 1/2 hours	Medium	1 3/4 hours
The Loire Valley	Tours	1 hour	Low	15 minutes
	Paris Orly	1 hour	High	2 hours
	Paris CDG	1 hour	Very high	2 1/2 hours or 1 1/2 hours by rail
The Northern Rhone	Lyon Saint Expury	1 1/2 hours	Medium	45 minutes
The Southern Rhone	Avignon	1 3/4 hours	Low	15 minutes
	Marseille	1 3/4 hours	Medium	50 – 60 minutes
	Nimes	1 3/4 hours	Low	40 minutes
Alsace	Basel-Mulhouse	1 1/2 hours	Medium	30-40 minutes
	Strasbourg	1 1/2 hours	Medium	40-60 minutes
Ribera del Duero	Valldolid	2 1/2 hours	Low	30 minutes
	Madrid	2 1/2 hours		2 hours
Rioja	Bilbao,	2 1/2 hours	Very high	90 minutes
	Madrid	2 1/2 hours		4 hours
Tuscany	Florence	2 1/2 hours	Low	20 – 40 minutes
	Pisa	2 1/2 hours	High	1 hour
Piedmont	Turin	2 1/4 hours	Low	15 minutes
	Milan	2 1/4 hours	High	1 3/4 to 2 hours
Porto	Oporto	2 1/2 hours	High	15 minutes

*Very high/high- Large number of flights from regional airports all year round and multiple flights per day from hub airport

Medium- Daily flights mainly from hub airports

Low- Very limited, mainly from hub airports. Not flights every day.

Regions	Travel
	Self-drive	Port	Driving time	Duration of rail travel from London	Station
Champagne	Yes	Calais	2 1/2 hours	4-4hrs 30	Reims / Champagne Ardenne


Bordeaux	Yes	Saint Malo / Caen	5 1/2 hours	6 hrs – 6 hrs 30	Bordeaux / Libourne
		Caen	5 1/2 hours
Burgundy	Yes	Calais	6 hours	4 hrs 30 – 5 hrs 30	Dijon / Beaune

The Loire Valley	Yes	Saint Malo	3 hours	4 hrs 30 – 5 hrs 30	Tours
		Caen	3 1/2 hours
		Calais	5 1/2 hours
The Northern Rhone	No			5 hrs – 5 3/4 hrs	Lyon / Vienne
The Southern Rhone	No			5 3/4 – 6 3/4 hrs	Avignon


Alsace	Yes	Calais	6 1/2 hours	7 hours	Colmar
		Zeebrugge
Ribera del Duero	Yes	Santander / Bilbao	2 3/4 hours

Rioja	Yes	Santander / Bilbao	1 1/2 hours

Tuscany	No

Piedmont	No

Porto	No

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