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Buzzy-Beans

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I have been a member of the CC for years until recently but recently decided to jump ship and am now a member of the C&CC.
Over the years I have sworn blind by the oh so reliabe CC publication Caravan Europe.

Unfortunately I am finding the C&CC website to be a bit of a problem to negotiate to such an extent that I have given up trying to find an answer to the following question!

Does anyone know if the C&CC produce a similar (excellent) publication to the one produced by the CC and if so what is it called?

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11/11/2015 at 9:52pm
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The Club's European Travel Service produce a brochure each year, ours arrives with the magazine in Mid December, but that is because we have used the service previously. I have no experience of the CC's publication so cannot comment.
Just looked online and you can pre order the 2016 brochure if you Follow This Link
I realise this does not give you info now, but I hope this has helped a bit

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Val A

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I don't think the brochure is what the OP is asking for, but the Caravan Club's book of European campsites (which is excellent, even though it has some limitations). I don't think the 'other' club produce anything similar.

Non-members of the Caravan Club can still buy them but they cost more:

Caravan Club Europe Guides

Or you can pick up last year's too, for upwards of £3.50 from the Caravan Club and perhaps from ebay or similar for less (and sites don't change that quickly).

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No, nothing similar from the C & C C, unfortunately. Lots of site suggestions and reviews on here though!

Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!

Buzzy-Beans

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Quote: Or you can pick up last year's too, for upwards of £3.50 from the Caravan Club and perhaps from ebay or similar for less (and sites don't change that quickly).

Val what a star you are, I had never thought of looking for these publications on Amazon (or similar), yes I have now found exactly what I am looking for and what is more they are quite a lot cheaper than buying them from the CC directly!

I will now start searching on Amazon for some other similar guides..

Many thanks

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Alan Chilestone

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Ok, as I said I have no knowledge of the CC publication, not being a member etc etc, but I may look into getting a copy now (even last years) as it does sound useful.

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Val A

12/11/2015 at 10:06am
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Quote: Originally posted by Buzzy-Beans on 12/11/2015

Quote: Or you can pick up last year's too, for upwards of £3.50 from the Caravan Club and perhaps from ebay or similar for less (and sites don't change that quickly).

Val what a star you are, I had never thought of looking for these publications on Amazon (or similar), yes I have now found exactly what I am looking for and what is more they are quite a lot cheaper than buying them from the CC directly!

I will now start searching on Amazon for some other similar guides..

Many thanks

Glad to help!

And to Alan C - the Caravan Club guide in a good one because it contains details of all types of sites, not just the large ones, and has a brief overview compiled from comments made by members who have visited.

Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!

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Glad to help!

And to Alan C - the Caravan Club guide in a good one because it contains details of all types of sites, not just the large ones, and has a brief overview compiled from comments made by members who have visited.

Val you were a help or rather a guiding light to me in the past when I owned two exclusive adults only sites in the Dordogne before my health imposed retirement back to live in the UK once more........... I was under a different name in those days!

Many thanks Val, you are a star, but just like my most beloved, some people don't like owning up to it!!!!

All the very best

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So where is your first trip going to take in?

Alan Chilestone

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Val, Thanks, sounds v useful.

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March C&CC Salisbury
May C&CC Adgestone IOW
July Le Clos Auroy, Auvergne France
August C&CC Polstead
August C&CC Oxford
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Buzzy-Beans

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Quote: Originally posted by Val A on 12/11/2015
So where is your first trip going to take in?

After having returned from Montignac, to live in this heaven sent place where I am so very fortunate to now live and having taken an old panel van and spent forever and a day breathing new life into it, our first very long European trip will be:-
Leaving the Channel Tunnel, we will immediately head onto the narrowest country roads we can find towards the coast and follow the entire French coastline forever Southwards, stopping wherever we care to stay until such time as we reach a point where we can journey inj-land back to our old hunting grounds of Nontron (Manzac Ferme) and then down to Montignac (La Tournerie) to spend some time with some very valued friends.

We will then head back towards the Atlantic coast and then forever South until we reach the Spanish border when we will turn West and follow the Atlantic coastline all the way across the top of Spain and onwards into Portugal where we will follow their coastal roads ever further South.

Then when we finally reach the Portugese/Spanish border we will head diagonally across Spain towards Madrid etc. and then onwards upward forever traveling North(ish) until we meander up the center of France before cutting back to the Channel Tunnel once more.

Our only major clause of this plan is, with the exception of essential brief points, we will never use either a toll road or major road.

Well that is the plan anyway.

All the very best

Buzzy Beans, (or dare I say Phil)

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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!

Val A

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There is a book you might enjoy reading, about someone who did travel the whole of the French border and the coasts, in a VW campervan.

It's called A Perfect Circle and is by Susie Kelly.

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We did the circumference of France earlier this year. We took over 6 weeks and covered just about 3000 miles (I admit we didn't go to every nook and cranny!) just for the hell of it.

It was on our bucket list and great fun and allowed us to see and compare different parts of France, both those we know well and those we'd never been to before.

I didn't keep a diary as such (I should have). Highlights were Provence and Biarritz but all of it was interesting, the similarities as well as the differences. Now we'll go back to doing one or two areas at a time as we've done in the past and exploring more of the interior.

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What a brilliant thread. Going to order that book Val and Buzzy beans, your trip sounds fantastic. Look forward to hearing about your adventures.

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I did a search on my local library and they have most of the books written by Susie Kelly so I have placed a reserve on 'A Perfect Circle'.
I also found what are called perfect/second hand copies of all the guides I will be needing on Amazon at a fraction of what the CC charge for them, about which I don't mind if a guide is a year out of date.

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