Location & Getting Here
Auvergne Naturelle is located in Laval sur Doulon, a small hamlet in the heart of the Livradois National Park. We are in the Haute Loire Department, the most southern department of the Auvergne region of France. The closest major towns are Clermont Ferrand and Le Puy en Velay, both approx 1 hour by car. Paris is approx 5 hours and Montpellier on the Mediterranean is 3 hours by car.
Getting Here
By Air
Clermont Ferrand Airport - 83 kms, approx 1 hour 10 mins. Airlines - currently no direct flights from the UK. Can fly via Paris with Air France www.airfrance.com
Rodez Airport - 220 kms, approx 2 hours 40 mins. Airlines - Ryanair from London Stansted and Dublin (www.ryanair.com)
Lyon Airport (Saint-Exepury) - 180 kms, approx 2 hours 35 mins. Airlines - Easyjet from London Stansted (www.easyjet.com)
Lyon Airport (Grenoble) - 240 kms, approx 3 hours 15 mins. Airlines - Ryanair from Liverpool, East Midlands, London Stansted and Dublin(www.ryanair.com)
Limoges Airport - 330 kms, approx 3 hours 20 mins. Airlines - Ryanair from Liverpool, East Midlands and London Stansted (www.ryanair.com) and Flybe from Newcastle and Southampton (www.flybe.com)
By Train
Eurostar from London St Pancras to Paris Nord - 2 hours 20 mins. www.eurostar.com
Trains from Paris (Gare de Lyon) to Brioude via Clermont Ferrand with Corail Teoz and the TER - approx 4 ½ hours. (www.sncf.co.uk) (www.raileurope.co.uk)
By Car
You can either choose a ferry or take the eurotunnel
Dover to Boulogne - 1 hour 30 mins crossing with LD Lines(www.ldlines.com). From the port of Boulogne we are 760 kms (7 hours 15 mins)
Dover to Calais - 1 hour 30 mins crossing with P & O Ferries(www.poferries.com) or SeaFrance(www.seafrance.com)
Portsmouth or Newhaven to Le Havre, 5 hours crossing (www.directferries.com). From Le Havre , we are 680 kms , 6 ½ hours
Portsmouth to Caen, 5 3/4 hours crossing (www.britannyferries.com). From Caen, we are 680 kms, 6 ½ hours
Eurotunnel, Folkestone to Calais (www.eurotunnel.com) From the Eurotunnel station at Calais, we are 780 kms, 7 ½ hours away.