A family tour de France: cycling and camping in Normandy with two toddlers

<p>Ebikes with child seats – plus idyllic campsites and pit stops en route – turn a five-day ride on the car-free Véloscénic into a wonderful family holiday</p><p>“Are you mad?” says a fellow guest over dinner at our campsite. “I heard you’re here on a long-distance cycle ride with your toddlers.”</p><p>I am in Orne, a region in Normandy, with my sister Issy and our three-year-old sons, Sid and Ralph. The landscape folds around us in green-over-green – hedgerow, oak, mossy manor wall – then opens into meadows where Percheron horses graze, knee-deep in wildflowers. Deer leap from the bocage. <em>Cidre</em> and <em>poiré</em> have been pressed here since the middle ages. The villages are sandy stone, blue- and green-shuttered; roses against the <em>boulangerie</em>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/jul/28/family-cycling-holiday-france-normandy-veloscenic-camping">Continue reading...</a>