Brittany, Plestin Les Greves, Ty Pesketer

We discovered Ty-Pesketer through the Owners In France holiday accommodation network, which is packed with hundreds of homes to let, dealing direct with the owners. It's a system which definitely helps you tailor a vacation home to suit you and you can contact the owners, too, to ask questions about the place, its location and the myriad other things which crop up ahead of a holiday.

The other good thing about the Owners In France organisation is that it also has special travel arrangements with Brittany Ferries for those who book with them.

For all of us the welcome we received at Ty-Pesketer, was confirmation that this is, indeed, a good way of finding exactly the place you want to stay.

And the fact they weren't too far away, if needed, proved invaluable in making our time away run like clockwork.

The accommodation was superb - a large family house with 4 great sized bedrooms, huge conservatory with sea views and 3 acres of gardens, activities, plunge pool, boles (well it is France) and only 50m from a gorgeous private beach.

The managers offered more than just their experience of the last 18 years; he is an avid fisherman regularly making sorties to the deeps and returning with a smorgasboard of fish, crab and tales of daring do, and she is a world renowned artist and is always willing to lend some help & advice to budding Da Vinci's

All in all, a fabulous place, well worth checking out the owners own web site for more details and pictures