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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!
01/7/2011 at 8:10pm
Location: Criccieth Gwynedd
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Whatever you do Ciarri make sure you do have vignettes for the outward and return legs of your journey.
Last summer we travelled to Slovenia and Croatia towing our caravan, we have a Bailey Senator. On way down Cary, my wife, bought a 10 day Austrian vignette on the way down, at the Germany/Austria border, as I was driving at the time. I bought a Slovenian one for a month at the services just before the Karawanken Tunnel. I think I was planning to buy another Austrian one on the way home and thus avoid paying for a longer vignette than we needed.
On the way home the Slovnian one was still valid. I was driving and asked Cary, my wife, to check whether the Austrian one was still valid when we stopped near the Slovenia/Austria border - it WAS 4 weeks later. She misread the visa and thought it was still okay. We carried in blissful ignorance until we were stopped by an autobahn official as we left the toll booths at one of the tunnels. He pulled us over and carefully checked our car documents and licences very thoroughly. He then asked if we had a valid vignette. I cheerfully replied that it was on the windscreen. That was when he hit us with the "bombshell" that vignette has expired. He then relieved us a 100 Euro fine!! Things were rather quiet in the car for the next few kilometres!!
We were only in Austria for one day and the vignette would have cost us under 10 Euros!!! I've heard since that the Austrian autobahn authorities are very "hot" on checking vignettes both with cameras and patrols. The Austrians, also, charge additional tolls for some of the motorway tunnels.
So whilst I would recommend buying the vignettes enroute at petrol stations near the borders or at the borders themselves make sure that you DO buy them!!
We enjoyed our time in Croatia and Slovenia but it was a LONG drive. Our mileage from St Helens to Croatia and back again, via Dover to Dunkerque, was 3,303 miles!
Have a lovely time!!! You can read my reviews of the sites we stayed at here:
Camp Beuttelwoog, Dahn: http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/results3.asp?search=dahn&by=county
Panorama Harras, Chiemsee: http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/results3.asp?search=harras&by=town
Camp Bled: http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/results3.asp?search=bled&by=sitename
Camp Galeb, Croatia: http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/results3.asp?search=galeb&by=sitename
Camp Naabtal: http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/results3.asp?search=Naabtal&by=sitename
Camp Chenefleur: http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/results3.asp?search=chenefleur&by=sitename
Those are the site we stayed at,inlcuding on both legs of the journey, in the order we used them. We used toll free motorways through France, Belgium and Germany.
Hope this helps. Have a lovely holiday.
Tim
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Tim and Cary
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