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We're just back from Camping de la Plage in Brittany from mid to end of August.  The campsite was full but it didn't feel busy, has a play area, pool and beach and is in a good location for things to see and do.  I suspect we were lucky with the weather - two gorgeous weeks with only a couple of cooler days in the middle.

 It was a two day drive to get there, but short of moving to the south coast of England, there's not much can be done about that  - we rely on a portable DVD (the Incredibles four times in two days!!), anti travel sickness tablets, and bribery about icecream on the next stop!

I do camp in the uk but always use gites and mobiles in France.Gites are great in an intresting area were we can take the 4 kids to  places each day but our little ankle bitters (14,12,11,11) do love making friends at parks and prefer that.We tend to use hotels for night stops,booked ahead can be great value.

As a general rule we prefer sites with a large local population,on our last trip we had an idyllic week at camping pre bas on lac Chambon.excellent quality/price and not an English,Dutch or German voice to be heard all week.The French were lovely the kids were a novelty and made loads of friends and i even got a medal for helping win the camp footie tournament.

Living in cumbria does present large problems,the years i lived up north i fly drived and used mobiles.Just couldnt face the drive.