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Good news re the jobs!

I like your style regarding lack of planning. I must admit to having a bit of a squeeky bum in relation to peak season. We've always booked in advance for July/Aug even though there is just the two of us. I really love all the scrutiny of sites/reviews/ferry timetables etc. I guess that includes assumptions about the sun shining in most places that time of year.....and of course some campsites will be full, though plenty which arent i imagine.  We're in the Loire ourselves, but may yet head to the west coast too.

Happy drifting!

Quote: Originally posted by xtinexoop on 23/2/2011

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So after a stressy 3 months with no income we find life has looked up a bit and OH has 3 months of freelance work and I've found a temporary contract till end of July.

So... booked the tunnel for a 3-week trip in August.

and that's it - as much prebooking as we will do. A couple of days before we'll check the 5-day forecast and decide which way to go from Calais for the first 2 nights, probably the Loire and then make a plan to go West, South or East - or maybe even back to Italy if the French weather looks unpredictable.   

Love just doing it 'on the fly' so we can follow the sun and it means if the job situation is back to being dire we can limit the miles we do and book into cheaper sites instead of being committed by having paid in advance.

Christine

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Sounds like us last year! This year we have booked a place for 5 nights out of the 11 but purely as we want a specific place this time.

Like Pauline49 we've been really pleased with our 'lack of planning' for the last eight or nine years.  Our 'plan' is to book a ferry at times and dates that we find convenient, and then buy a paper on our first morning in  France. Wherever the weather map on the back page shows the sun is shining (and the four day forecast shows similar smiley suns) is where we've headed.  our plans have always worked.

A couple of years ago we did decde, pre-crossing, to head for the Dordogne as we wanted to canoe there.  However, on the way, it rained, and rained, and then poured, and then the roads flooded, so we carried on further south, stopped overnight, and looked at the reception computer in the morning. There was one tiny area of sunshine in the Languedoc so we headed in that direction, and had a week of hot sunshine! 

Fellow caravanners that we met later that week, or the following week, had had almost constant rain for a week, and we met a convoy of caravanners who had been flooded in the Dordogne, so badly that they'd been unable to leave the site for four days!

Imagine, if we'd booked on to the site we'd headed for!  Four days of constant rain, and floods, where we had four days of solid sunshine!

Three cheers for lack of booking - and even lack of planning!