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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
24/5/2020 at 3:20pm
Location: Northern Ireland
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Interesting reading, these posts ...
We've, probably, done a variety of methodologies ... usually start off with a short list of possible campsites in two or three 'areas' of France, or Spain, or ...
We get off the ferry at Cherbourg (from Dublin ... having driven down from Northern Ireland), then drive down to just over the Loire, not far from Angers, where our van is stored ... hook-up and go to a campsite about twenty miles away for the night ... next day the van goes for its annual service in Cholet ... collect soon after lunch and drive down to mid-Charente and spend two days at sister-in-law's house ... sort out, pack caravan etc, and chill ... then off to the first 'planned' site ...
Usually via the quickest route, though we have stopped, betimes, if something interesting heaves into view ... once 'on site', we 'ad hoc' plan, guided by weather, sometimes a chat with a fellow camper, or something we read ... the stay at each site is entirely dependant upon how much we like the area.
We try to find sites that offer good kayaking and cycling (we carry both), coupled with a walk-into village with some charm, a good restaurant or two etc, and good drives/places to visit ...
And so it continues ... we never know how far we'll get (France/Spain/Portugal/Spain France .... as well as France/Germany/Austria/Italy/France have been done) ... though often we don't go beyond France ... if the weather is good, why bother?
Seldom encountered a problem with stopping if we want to ... though I tend to be a 'completer' in terms of reaching a 'planned' destination ... don't mind missing meals, just a brief 'coffee' break every two hours, if it's a long haul. Meandering takes place after we've unhitched and settled in.
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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
28/5/2020 at 9:37am
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Couple of 'equipment fails' - one of the endless mini roundabouts I was moaning about earlier took the wheel arch of our caravan partially off en route to stay with friends at the end of our French trip. My husband 'bodged it' but was worried about it coming loose again and then getting caught when we were loading onto the ferry. He mentioned it to my friend's husband who is a nice chap but a bit shy and focused on his business and farm - we didn't know hm that well then. They immediately bonded over 'project wheel arch' and he sourced some extra strong glue and the sort of clip that builders use to hold it together. The two 'boys' have been firm friends ever since!
Loading onto the ferry in Portsmouth the caravan in front of us was going a bit quick and lost two of his corner steadies on the ramp. The stewards were shouting at us not to do the same, but we were fore-armed having done the same going into a bumpy field at a horse show.
And a navigational one in the uk - aiming for a CL in the field behind a pub, couldn't work out for the life of us how to get in, turned up the next (very long) drive, got to the top, man came out of the farm office and said, without me having to ask: "Bottom of the drive, immediately beyond the pub, swing out into the road, sharp left, past the bins and the field's there." It was obviously a common occurrence!
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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
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Quote: Originally posted by SGThomas on 29/5/2020
Leaving the campsite in Avignon to go south, we were crossing the bridge and found ourselves in the centre lane of traffic, rather than the right hand one which would skirt the walls not enter the old town.
Once under the main gateway, the satnav recalculated and suggested we took the first right, which we did. It was narrow and cobbled but got smaller, we then had a 90° left turn which was even narrower.
Then suddenly a tourist group of Japenese appeared wandering up the middle of the street They were all tuned into a tourist headphone and were gazing skywards.
Panic ensued when they realised our presence. The street was hardly wide enough for a caravan and one very thin person to pass each other. All the skinnies squeezed past but 3 fatties stood no chance. They had to move back until they could find a doorway so we could pass.
I am not too sure what their Japaneses meant but I think that World WAr III had been declared.
  
We had a very similar experience the year before last, somewhere in Normandy (I've tried so earnestly to forget the experience, the place name now evades me.), only our victims were lunchtime diners instead of Chinese tourists!
We somehow found ourselves in an old part of the town after going under an old stone archway, and the street became so narrow that diners at tables in the pavement cafes moved swiftly out of the way as we nudged our way through, caravan bouncing along the cobbled street and almost grazing the tables. My coping mechanism was to stare straight ahead and employ The Blinkers Strategy whilst inwardly shrinking with embarrassment. It makes my insides go to water even now, just thinking about it!
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