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09/1/2016 at 5:17pm
Location: Teesside
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In September, we did a weeks trip (so we could go to the Puy Du Fou), left Teesside on the Friday afternoon after the OH had finished work, rattled down to the chunnel. Carried on and by midnight, stopped at the Baie de somme services for the night. Set off for Penestin early the next morning, stopping at Honfleur on the way. We did Penestin, Arzul, Nantes, Puy Du Fou and stopped at a site near Rue coming home, getting the early train back on the sunday morning, so home for Teatime.
We were shattered and it just felt like all driving, so wouldn't do it just for a week again, but I would do northern France or Belgium for a week.
If I could have got a ferry crossing to fit with our travelling times, I'd have went for convenience over cost and got a ferry that dropped me closer to my destination
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10/1/2016 at 2:35pm
Location: Derbyshire
Outfit: Camplet Concorde Bailey Phoenix+ 420
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When my husband and I go away we go for 9 nights, we go on the tunnel using our Tesco vouchers to pay for it. We set off from home (Derbyshire) sometime between midnight and 2am, leaving for France between 4.30am-6.30am, depending on what crossings I can get. We have an overnight there and back giving us 7 nights on site, which works out well and gives us a leisurely drive to wherever we're going.
If you've only got 7 nights on site and the 2 days either side for driving and you're wanting to get to the Vendee or Brittany it'll be a lot easier to get one of the longer, more expensive, Western crossings. We did do Calais to Camping Belle Vue, Mellionnec, Brittany a couple of years ago without an overnight stop, it is doable but a long drive in one go, especially with having the drive in UK first.
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