Getting there

Planes

The region’s smaller airports include Poitiers | Limoges and La Rochelle. For internal connecting flights | try Airlinair (www.airlinair.com) and Brit Air (www.britair.com). For direct flights from the UK | Bordeaux is less than two hours away from Angoulême | and BA and EasyJet can take you there from London.

Trains

Poitiers and Angoulême are on the TGV route from Paris to Bordeaux (www.tgv.com). UK travellers should take the Eurostar and connect at Lille (eurostar.co.uk).

Automobiles

Angoulême is four and a half hours by road from Paris | seven hours from Calais. You can rent a car at Bordeaux airport | where Avis | Hertz and Europcar all have desks. Book car-hire pick-up at Poitiers rail station with Europcar (www.europcar.co.uk).