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I work in the New Forest (can't afford to live there though), and we frequently go there for a weekend. In the past I have had to work weekends, so we have pitched up, and OH and the kids have spent the day out enjoying themselves while I have been working.

Any time spent in the caravan is a holiday.

Jules

As others have said, for weekend look for an hour or so travel in most cases, like a CS only about 15 miles away but can take 60 mins on a Friday night!

For longer breaks tend to go further as don't mind using best part of a day to get there.

Quote: Originally posted by TonyC52 on 02/3/2010

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As others have said, for weekend look for an hour or so travel in most cases, like a CS only about 15 miles away but can take 60 mins on a Friday night!

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Quote: Originally posted by corpogreen on 02/3/2010

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If you can't see the front door of your house when you put the legs down, you're on holiday

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We sometimes travel  30 - 45 mins to stay by the coast for the weekend. We can live hectic lifestyles so its nice to get away from it all.

we have been to melrose which is about 5 miles away, it was handy as if we had forgotten anything we nipped home for it.

if we are away a long weekend we can go a couple of hours away

When we camped in a tent, I never thought to stay near home. But we didn't really go away for weekends either - it was too much hassle pitching the tent for 2 nights then having to unpack the trailer when we got home. And we both worked shifts so didn't get many weekends off together anyway.

We are new caravaners now and also I'm now a desk jockey so have weekends off  We took our van out for the first time a couple of weekends ago to try everything out and make sure it all worked. We chose a campsite 25 miles from home. If anything was wrong we were near enough to the dealer where we bought it from.

We had a great time. And are planning plenty more weekend breaks near to home. Mind you I don't finish work til 5.15pm and have to battle home thru rush hour traffic so we need somewhere close by (less than an hour I suppose) to make the most of it.