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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
21/4/2015 at 11:25am
Location: Bristol
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How did i miss this thread!
We have been to France so many times i have lost track, not always camping, sometimes in villas. We have been to the Dordogne (lots) the Vendee (lots) Brittany (lots) Les Mathes area, Ile D'Oleron, Ardeche, Uzes, Provence, Nice, Paris, Valras Plage, Carcasonne,Normandy
but still got so much to see.
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24/4/2015 at 8:22am
Location: West - North Yorkshire
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I took this to mean first camping trip abroad - but if it's the first trip ever, then it was a Thomson 'Wanderers' holiday to Corfu, where you got a flight, a book of vouchers for accommodation, and 'wandered' where the mood took you around the Greek Islands. We intended to camp, but it was so hot and such short nights that we didn't sleep. We 'wandered' into the nearest bar, and met a travel agent named Spiro, who got chatting. He had rooms to let on the top floor of his house in Corfu town, and was more than willing to take our Thomson vouchers in exchange.
It was a lovely place with our own bedroom, sitting room, kitchen area, bathroom and roof terrace. Because of his travel agency contacts he arranged all sorts of activities for us - free of charge. We went out on his friend's boat, used a holiday home at the top of the island on the beach, and hired bikes at a very reduced rate!
We did the same holiday two years running - Corfu the first year and Crete the next! Fantastic holidays!!!
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24/4/2015 at 9:27am
Location: Wonderful Rural Yorkshire
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My first trip EVER abroad was Tunisia. We stayed at the Sahara Beach Hotel, I distinctly remember they were filming 'Jesus of Nazareth' nearby, and they were filing Starwars in the troglodyte oasis in the desert. Fascinating place, but I remeber being very, very ill. I was anorexic in my late teens, and was so proud of the fact that I was just under 7st , I wore a white bikini and must have looked emaciated. Top this with dysentry, I was 6.5st by the end of the first week and they were going to fly me home. I spent a week in the hotel room, then in their hospital on a saline drip. On returning home I was in hospital and underwent phsychiatric treatment until I was a healthier weight. Not a trip to forget. My next trip was Italyl, looking at thepictures I was still painfully thin. I'm paying for that time now....I have digestive issues with thinning of the lining of my sigmoid colon. All those laxatives and crazy diets. I'm not fat now but I do have a healthy attitude to eating. Food is fuel, if you dont excercise it is stored in all the wrong places.
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Garda..perfect for MTB, Kayak, SUP and fell running training.
Favourite areas: Provence, French Alps, Savigny (as a stop over for Southern France: Rhein valley as a stop over for Italy. 78
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27/4/2015 at 10:18pm
Location: Lancashire
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First time abroad was a package holiday to Malta in 1976.
First time camping abroad was in 2000, when a friend asked me to accompany her for a weekend to initially, Milan, but this developed into 2 weeks driving to Rome and back. She borrowed a van, filled it with bikes, tent etc. We were so naive, neither of us had driven abroad before, and we spent the first night driving round in circles because we mis-interpreted the road signs in the dark, and friend was petrified we would build up a huge bill on the tolls. Altogether we slept 8 nights in the van in laybys, the rest we found campsites.
However, I loved it, found a side of myself I didn't know about, and have been back to France many, many times since.
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28/4/2015 at 2:46pm
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First trip abroad in the early 70's on my own on a scooter for just over a month. Went through France, Holland, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland.
Has a few adventures. Was nearly killed when a large deer ran in front of me in a forest in Germany. In France, fortunately on a rest day, the campsite entrance was closed for the day as the Tour de France went past.
Was woken up in the middle of the night in Paris with someone trying to get into the front of my tent. Turned out the be a hedgehog with its nose stuck in a yogurt pot. Went down Die Romantische Strasse, visited Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, etc.
... All on a budget of £50 including food, ferry, petrol, campsites etc.
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