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Brittany Ferries is the trading name of the French shipping company, BAI Bretagne Angleterre Irlande S.A. founded in 1973 by Alexis Gourvennec, that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between France and the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain, and between Spain and Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The Brittany Ferries flagship is named after the town. Les Galettes de Pont-Aven is a 1975 drama on the life of a middle-aged aspirant painter who settles in the town. Pont-Aven is the setting for Death in Brittany (2012), the first book in the series of Commissaire Dupin detective novels by Jean-Luc Bannalec (Jörg Bong).
The withdrawal of the P&O company, which served Poole and Southampton, has left two companies with cross-Channel links: Brittany Ferries to Portsmouth and Poole and Irish Ferries to Rosslare (Ireland). In the first eleven months of 2007 compared with the same period of 2006, passenger traffic declined by 3.84% to 750,000 units, while freight ...
Its population centres include La Baleine in the northeast, (Saint-Louis-de-)l'Isle-aux-Coudres in the south, and Saint-Bernard-sur-Mer in the northwest facing Baie-Saint-Paul. Access to the island are by sea (ferry) and air (airport). The free ferry service connects Saint-Bernard-sur-Mer to Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive on the north shore of the ...
The government said at a hearing on 20 December the court gave Brittany Ferries permission to challenge "only a limited aspect of our decision-making process by a judicial review" and that "all ...
Roscoff (/ ˈ r ɒ s k oʊ / ROSK-oh, French:; Breton: Rosko) is a commune in the Finistère département of Brittany in northwestern France.. Roscoff is renowned for its picturesque architecture, labelled petite cité de caractère de Bretagne (small town of character) [3] since 2009.
The States has signed a 15-year contract with Brittany Ferries to deliver the island's ferry services, it has announced. The contract means Brittany Ferries will provide ferries between the island ...
The name of the town was attested in 1489, even before it was founded by François I in the form le Hable de Grace then Ville de Grace in 1516, two years before its official founding. [11] The learned and transient name of Franciscopolis in tribute to the same king, is encountered in some documents then that of Havre Marat , referring to Jean ...