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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!
11/6/2011 at 12:35pm
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My take is, having botherd to get accross the channel, and having amost driven the length of the UK, then you might as well head for the Sun, from my experiance, anywhere South of Lyon, will do the business.
I know its a long drive, bUt break it up with a couple of overnights enroute, and the job is done.
Like the OP, we are up North, so it's a 1000 mile drive to the campsite from home, it used to be 1200 miles when we used to do the Cote d' Azur.
The climate in the North of France, is of course much the same as Southern UK, so to get a real difference you have to head South.
Summer 2012 will soon come round, we are already booked on a campsite in the Southern Ardeche for 16 nights in July next year!.
Top tip on saving money, especialy if your Mrs want's plenty of shops, go in the afternoon, as most shops close at mid-day, and often don't bother oening again untill the next day, most markets pack up at lunchtime for the day also.
Even sandwich shops close a lunchtime, how French is that.
My Mrs has got wise to this, and often gets me down to the shops in France for 8:30am in the morning!.
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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
11/6/2011 at 3:55pm
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Hi Angedaws.
We are just north of Manchester, we set of for Dover at 07:30 having booked a 16:00 crossing, we always get on an earliar sailing, but it's good to know we have 8 hours to do the 300 mile journey, it probably takes us the best of six hours to get down to Dover, especialy now that we tow a half ton trailer.
It is the worst part of the holiday, driving through UK, and is one of the reasons we do our first and last overnight stops in Northern France, the reamaning 600 mile drive to our campsite is a breeze compared to UK drivng, along with the fact that it is legal on the French Autoroutes, for me to do 81mph in France whilst towing a trailer.
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