EP'98

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SITE and
HOW TO GO THERE

Conference Site

The EP98 conference will be held in a convenient conference site: Le Palais du Grand Large, located in the historic corsair city of Saint-Malo, on the north coast of Brittany, 40 miles from Rennes, 200 miles West from Paris, in the far west part of Europe.

Palais du Grand Large
1, quai Duguay Trouin
BP 109
F-35407 Saint-Malo Cedex, France

Click here to get the list of EP98 facilities there.

Saint-Malo Site

Saint Malo is approximately 65 kilometres North of Rennes, 350 km West of Paris. See site information

Saint-Malo is a touristic city surronuded by stones walls making for very pleasant walking tours with a nice view on the harbour, beaches and manu neighbouring small islands. Built on a granite rock in the english Channel, Saint Malo is joined to the mainland by a causeway.

Saint-Malo was founded in the 6th Century and, since the 16th Century, it was the point of departure to a great number of expeditions in search of the New World.

How to go there?

Saint Malo is easily accessible
  • By train, (TGV, high speed trains) to Rennes directly from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (about 3 hours) or from Paris-Montparnasse (about 2 hours); then connections by train to Saint-Malo (about 1 hour).
    Important: reservations are required on the French TGV.
    Railway 20% discount vouchers for a round trip (from any French station to Saint-Malo) are available: please tick the appropriate box on the registration form.
  • By air:
    • from Paris Roissy Charles de Gaulle pr from Paris Orly to Rennes St jacques airport (1 hour) with connections by trains from Rennes to Saint Malo
    • From London to Rennes (then 1 hour train) or to Dinard/St Malo airport (13km from the conference site, by taxi) via jersey Island;
    • Other flights directly go to Rennes from European airports to Rennes
    An average discount of up to 50% may be obtained for a round trip plane ticket inside France (on Air France connection). Give your travel agent the following reference: « Second séminaire sur l'édition électronique (WEPT'98). Code Number: SE2352 ». Then present the registration confirmation you will receive where this code and the Air France logo are printed.
  • By fery-Boat from England
More details and time-tables by clicking here