Take the A84 towards Rennes (Mont St Michel and Avranches), take exit 37, set your trip counter! Follow Le Mesnil Garnier and Granville. At the end of the slip road at the roundabout (0.3 miles), take the turning to Le Mesnil Garnier on the D33. You'll pass a series of white fence posts on the left, then you’ll see a small building with a corrugated roof on the left plus a sign on the right for 'Chambre d'Hote La Crepelliere' – turn right here (2.8 miles, sign = “Vers. D398”). Bear right at the stone cross at the intersection of the fork in the road (3.3 miles), see the "La Lorrie" and bear right (3.8 miles) black five bar gate (3.9 miles) and you've arrived.
Arrive Cherbourg and drive to the port exit – large roundabout with a petrol station . Take the 1st exit towards the town centre (don’t follow signs to Caen yet).
Over the railway tracks and past a shipyard on lhs with a large aluminium sculpture to another roundabout, take the 2nd exit – this means you turn left almost due south. If you go straight on at this roundabout you cross the river and into town – don’t!
You’ll come to a set of lights – straight on and then you’ll see a large supermarket on the right and McDonalds on the left.
Straight ahead this road is now signposted to Caen. Up the hill out of town still travelling south (you’ll pass a turning to Briquebec D900).
Travel for some time along the N13, bypass Valognes, Montebourg and St-Mere-Eglise.
Bypass Carentan turnings until you go under the canal – you take the next turning. You’ll recognise when you drive under the canal because as you approach the bridge, it looks like you are going to drive straight into it until the road dips away underneath it!
Exit the N13 onto the N174 signposted to St Lo.
A few miles beyond St-Jean-de-daye, the St Lo ring road begins – turn right to follow the course of the road onto what is clearly a new bypass rather than going straight on to St Lo.
After a few miles, the road dips into a valley and you go over the main river that flows through St Lo. After the dip, just as you begin to climb up the other side is a turning to Percy and Villedieu on the D999 – take this.
Go through Percy and just before you get to Villedieu, join the A84 towards Avranches.
Just go a few miles to the next junction (37) - now pick up the directions above "from Caen".
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