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Quote: Originally posted by minicamper2001 on 09/2/2011I wonder if the OP picked up all our helpful comments!

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Quote: Originally posted by minicamper2001 on 09/2/2011

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Sorry, didn't realise you had asked that! Yes, I have been through France to Spain in Feb, March and April. Weather has varied from freeeeeeeeeeeeeezing in the Massif Central to balmy on the coast. Plus a really cold/wet Easter at Vinaros in Spain. The most unpredictable element seems to be the winds at this time of year, and we have had some hairy drives in March along the coasts which particularly stick in the memory.

If you don't book, you can obviously do the "chasing the sun" trick, and that's just what we plan to do this year. We will probably use all ACSI sites, picking out a variety in different areas to aim for, depending on the weather.

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No, the winds we experienced were coming home from Benicassim in Spain, and all the way along the motorway from there into France. When we got into France we abandoned the motorway, and stopped at Narbonne for 2 nights before venturing further up through France to Calais. We saw caravans and a towed boat overturned on the motorway, and a large lorry on its side in a field alongside the motorway.

Friends we met at Benicassim sent us a photo of a large tree uprooted on the campsite (Bonterra Park) on the morning we left, which had completely crushed a caravan, luckily the owners were not in it at the time. This was in early March about 2005 from memory.

The wind is known as the Tramontane (?) I believe, and in the Rhone Valley it's the Mistral. I wait to be corrected!!