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Roscoff

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Travel to Roscoff, visa requirements / Get around / Roscoff attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Roscoff souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Roscoff nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Camping / Get out

Roscoff (Breton: Rosko) is a commune in the arrondissement of Morlaix in the Finistère département, in France's Bretagne région..

Travel to Roscoff & Visa Requirements

Brittany Ferries provides a service to Rosslare, Ireland. Also to Plymouth in the UK. There are local trains and buses to Morlaix (not many though) which is served by TGVs from Paris.

Tours & Getting around Roscoff

You need a car if you want to travel freely. Although there is a bus service, there aren't many buses on the roads.

Roscoff attractions and sightseeing

The harbour, with lots of fishing boats, including seaweed harvesters (look for a long pole on the deck, which they twist the seaweed up with).

Roscoff city tours

For an outing you can catch a boat across to the Isle de Batz (pronounced 'eel de bah')- this is only a short distance across the bay.

Roscoff souvenirs & shopping

Roscoff Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive

Roscoff nightlife, bars, clubs & pubs

Roscoff cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels & lodging

Camping

Camping de Perharidy **, Le Ruguel, 29680 Roscoff. Tel: 0033 298 69 70 86. Open: Easter till 30th September. Nice site within 5 minutes of the town and ferry port
Camping Kérestat Péoc'h **, Manoir de Kerestat. Tel: 0033 298 69 71 92. Open: 01/04 - 31/10.
Saint Pol de Léon; Camping Ar Kleguer ***, Plage Saint Anne. 29250. Tel: 0033 298 69 18 81. Fax: 0033 298 29 12 84. Beautiful views - has a pool too!
Saint Pol de Léon; Camping de Trologot, Grève du Man. 29250. Tel: 0033 298 69 06 26. Fax: 0033 298 29 18 30.

Get out

This page was last edited at 09:14, on 17 July 2008 by Jim Nicholson. Based on work by Jack Dann, Bill Johnson, Helen Blamey, Peter Fitzgerald and mike dill and Wikitravel user(s) Lone.guner.

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