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hi

we'd love to do a lakes and mountains camping trip in europe with the kids with the shortest amount of driving possible.  Any ideas for a campsite on a lake near mountains that might have things that would suit 12/9/5 year old kids would be great?

Advice on best crossings would be wonderful too!

thankyou for your help

c-mac

Depends if you mean big hills or mountains,unfortunately for big mountains the alps are the nearest and best.The Ardennes or vosges are nice hills.

Annecy or Chamonix in France are good family destinations as is the Bernese oberland or Valais in Switzerland but all are a hard days drive.

thanks - need to get the map out again - would love to do the bernese oberland but the journey looks tough...getting to devon can be hard enough with my 3!

Any other thoughts would be great!

thanks c-mac

How abourt the Hartz Mountains in Germany maybe stopover in the Mossel Rhine region?

We stayed up in the mountains from Annecy at Le Grand Bornand.  Half an hour run back in but without the massive traffic congestion although in June it was fine.  I believe July and August are horrific though.

Ali

like the sound of annency area and the burgundy idea - any thoughts on best crossings or campsites  you have used?

thanks a lot

nothing quite like leaving things to  the last minute!!

c-mac

Hi c-mac,

Burgundy sites we've used include La Grappe D'or outside Beaune and Le Lac de Panthier. At Annecy we used La Ravoir at Doussard. Unless you are going out of season, I doubt if there would be any slots now.........the area is very popular. I use Dover/Calais, but I believe you can get cheaper crossings by Going Dover/Dunkirk.

Yep Norfolk lines Dover to Dunkerque are brill, good price and also no coaches or groups and the ships are new.

We stayed at Le Grand Bornand but again high season they are likely to be fully booked already.  It was something like 530 miles from Dunkerque down to the Alps and we stopped overnight at the municipal site in Troyes using our pop up tent.

Ali