Brittany Ferries certainly seem to have gone up in price, we used to have a property owners card before we got the lorry but when you use a lorry to travel backwards and forwards, most of the time it just isn't viable especially with the dogs as you cannot do St Malo to Portsmouth with a lorry and dogs, large van is no problem.
We find the tunnel is easiest but the lorry with dogs is not allowed so when we came over earlier in the year we used a van on the tunnel and it worked out very cheap if booked in advance. It isn't quite cheap enough for you UK guys to nip over to France for the cheap diesel but the way UK prices are heading you never know
We are over here now until after the national so you are welcome to pop over for a look, won't be able to show you everything as I have a lot of stuff including a few cars upstairs above some of my units but when I did some building work converting another unit I lost the access and seeing as I am not to worried about getting them out in the near future I haven't bothered putting in a new access. I have several crammed in my other workshop, you could probably just about see some of them.
I will see you at the rally.
Thanks
Mark