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Quote: Originally posted by floppy-poppy on 20/8/2014

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Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 29/7/2014Hi kyoto49

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                 That's the great thing about camping, we all do it in different ways.

We only go once per year for 3 weeks to the South East of France during July, we are on the main campsite for at least 14 nights, more often 16.

We take a lot of kit, satellite system and full en-suite to name but 2 items.

Set up time and break camp times are about the same at 6 hours each, give or take an hour!

It takes us 72 hours to get to the campsite which includes 3 overnight budget hotel stops, one in Kent and another 2 on the way South in France.

The return journey is more rapid, just 54 hours with two overnight budget hotels used on the way back North to the ferry at Dunkerque.

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Gosh! 72 hours plus 4 hotels in all!! We used to go to the South of France regularly - stayed with a friend in Canterbury (okay we were lucky there)and one overnight stop usually about Dijon in a Eurocamp tent or similar - all in all less than 36 hours from our house 4 hours from Dover and with 3 kids under 8 at one point! Once we started out (from Frejus funnily enough) at 6 in the morning and drove right up to Calais (our tent stop for the night) and got on a ferry the following morning.

Anyway, going back to the thread. OH refuses to get a trailer. So we drop the back seats of our Vauxhall Astra estate and use the roof box. We usually get in with a squeeze but our next trip will include dog in dog cage plus all his bits - now the cage is going to be tricky enough but can't really have him surrounded with gear (i.e. all four sides plus on top / below) So we have a bit of a puzzle to sort out. I really just don't know - how do other people do that? I'm thinking one half of the seats to stay up and the other folded....but how about the gear? Hmmmmmmmmmmm

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