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Quote: Originally posted by CaddyClan on 05/8/2009

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Makes me wonder just how many people are left in the Netherlands in the summer and whether we should take our holidays there instead!!!

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Two British campers on our site - us and another.  For five days we were the only Brits there.

Had a great time but would probably not go to the same site again... more of that later... got in 2 hours ago and need to unpack! 

Quote: Originally posted by David Klyne on 05/8/2009

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I Was talking to the guy that runs Camping Chateau de L'Eperviere in Burgandy and he was concerned that there would be fewer Brits this year as they usually make up about 40% of their customers. I went out of the main season so again no idea what its like in the high season.

David

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David,

We stayed at Camping Chateau de L'Eperviere for 2 weeks in mid July and there was certainly no shortage of Brits there. We were on the area at the top (plot 34) and at least 5 of the 10 pitches there were Brits at all times. It is a transit site and there was lots of Brits coming and going on the larger area further down. he rest seemed to be Dutch and Danish with a few French. the site was full a few nights, but almost full the rest of the time we were there.

Janet x

We where in the South of France in June.

We did notice that there was very few British around. But we did notice there was a high percentage of Southern Irish. We asume it is all down to the Euro.

yep.. we saw very few Brits where we were either... got back on Sunday ..two weeks Haute Provence...one couple in a caravan on the site we stayed at and they were the ONLY brits we saw for the entire two weeks, apart from a few on mont vetoux where we went for le Tour. Our site was full though, and the complete sign was up for most of the second week. Dutch, Germans and French mostly. The weather was amazing and the prices about the same as here really.. to be honest we probably spent a little less than at home because the things we like ..cheese, wine, cooked meats etc were a bit cheaper there. We only ate out twice, not counting pizza's etc but we did notice that the restaurants were not at as busy as they usually are. This was the first time we went for the last two weeks in July, we usually go the last two weeks in August, so we wondered if that made a difference.

Definitely worth it....feel like we had a break and oh.. it's glorious to feel the sun on your bones...

Hi Lilli.

         Glad you got to see the TDF, they arrived at Aubenas at the end of stage 19, where we were camped, never seen it in the flesh before, superb experience, it was our last day/night at the site, so we spent all day at Aubenas, never used the car that day, it was the perfect end to the Holiday, and made the three day drive back home, seem all the more worthwhile, and I agree with you, nice to feel the Sun, uninterupted for a couple of weeks, it dosn't get much better than that, me thinks!.

My better half has just spent a week in Var (near Toulon) and said the flights out and back were full - but not a lot of Brits around the towns.  We go back in a weeks time to see how the grand parents have managed the kids - stay for a week and then up to Siblu Normandy for a couple of weeks. 

Normally the end of August tends to see more Brits around as the French go back to work earlier.  Look forward to finding out...

We usually find the campsites we are at are mainly dutch with some french and a token british camper or two ...

this year we went to a smaller campsite 'a la ferme' with only 25 pitches and it was 80% French 15% Belgian / Dutch and only 1 or 2 pitches British.

we saw very few brits in the Ardeche, but overall it was much busier than I had expected.  The site only had the odd pitch available when people who reserved failed to show but even those pitches were never free for more than a day!