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The obvious airports are Clermont-Ferrand for the outward journey and Nîmes for the return. However, budget flights to Clermont-Ferrand from the UK are only from the London area, and do not operate every day. A good alternative is to fly both to and from Nîmes. At the time of writing, Ryanair is operating a daily return service to Nîmes from Luton, three times a week from East Midlands, and four times a week from Liverpool. The centre of Nîmes and its railway station is only 14km from the airport, an easy cycle ride of less than an hour (walkers can take the inexpensive airport bus that connects with all flights).

There are two or three non-TGV train services each day from Nîmes to Clermont-Ferrand, journey time approximately five hours. When purchasing your train ticket, do not forget to request a bicycle ticket (free of charge). There is usually little problem in transporting your bike, without dismantling it in any way, on normal express (non-TGV) and local trains in France, unless the train is very full, in which case you might be asked to take a later one. On finishing the GTMC, take a train from Sète via Montpellier to Nîmes (frequent services, total journey time about 50 minutes).