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Calais to Roscoff along the Normandy and Brittany coast

Ride out from Calais and take the ferry home from Roscoff, or the other way round. The Somme bay, the chalk cliffs at Etretat, Honfleur, the D-Day beaches, Mont-Saint-Michel, Saint-Malo and the pink granite coast of northern Brittany.

Distance
562 miles (905 km)
Type
Point to point
Where
Normandy and Brittany

At 150 to 300 miles a day, this is 2 to 4 days of riding. Set your own daily distance and add rest days.

Plotted by us, not yet ridden

Starts at Calais ferry port

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Book this tripCrossing Eurotunnel Le Shuttle, P&O Ferries, DFDSBeds from Calais, and each nightCover insurance and breakdownSee it all

Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.

Main roads

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Before you go

  • Brittany Ferries sail from Roscoff to Plymouth, and from Saint-Malo to Portsmouth if you want to finish a day early. Book the return before you set off.
  • The Pont de Normandie into Honfleur is a toll bridge.
  • The line keeps off motorways by design.

On the way

  1. Calais
  2. Boulogne-sur-Mer
  3. Saint-Valery-sur-Somme
  4. Le Treport
  5. Dieppe
  6. Fecamp
  7. Etretat
  8. Honfleur
  9. Arromanches
  10. Bayeux
  11. Sainte-Mere-Eglise
  12. Coutances
  13. Cancale
  14. Saint-Malo
  15. Dinan
  16. Paimpol
  17. Perros-Guirec
  18. Morlaix
  19. Roscoff

Split it into days

Pick the miles you like to ride in a day. Each day ends at the named place on the route nearest that distance, and you get a GPX file for each day.

This is your pace, not our estimate of how long the riding takes. Day lengths vary because each day ends at a named place.

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Plan it with dates in the tour planner

1Getting there

This route starts where the boat or train lands at Calais. Book the bike as a motorcycle, not a car.

Compare every crossing

2Places to stay

Split the route into days above and each day gets its own bed search for where it ends.

Back to the days

3Cover

Check your bike insurance covers riding abroad, get travel insurance that covers motorcycling at your engine size, and breakdown cover that recovers a motorcycle in every country on the route.

What to check before you buy cover

The country on this route

What GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.

France

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  • Riding into central Paris, Lyon, Grenoble or another low emission zone? You need a Crit'Air sticker. Buy it only from the official site (official site)
  • Some mountain areas require winter tyres or chains from 1 November to 31 March: check which vehicles and areas it covers (official site)
  • The drink-drive limit is a third lower than in England and Wales, with regular roadside checks

On every trip abroad: your licence, insurance that covers riding abroad, the V5C and travel insurance with medical cover. The tour planner turns all of this into a checklist each rider in your group can tick off.

Places to see on the way

Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.

Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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