Do you like to dive into the delights of Dorset and Cornwall? Course you do – you’re a Pitchup.com person and therefore full of horse and common. So make your way to a campsite in the Manche for your next hol, a rural region of Basse-Normandie once part of the same land mass as Dorset and Cornwall, and with lots of similar landscapes including cliffs, beaches and countryside very green. Take a trip by pedal power to see the best of both on the Petit Tour de Manche cycling tour from Dorset’s Jurassic Coast to the Manche’s famous landmark of Mont St-Michel, or on the longer Tour de Manche, which also covers Devon and the comely coast of Brittany. Both are less exhausting, we think, than recreating le route of le real Le Tour…
Birdwatching and beaching are also what sensible sorts do when camping in the Manche, with an added dollop of watersports and fishing (the Manche has the strongest tides in Europe), D-Day and World War II remembrance (Omaha beach, Utah beach and a few dozen memorial parks, museums and monuments), and the port city of Cherbourg with maritime museum Cité de la Mer. You might find some maritime museums in Dorset and Cornwall too.
