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Subject Topic: How far do you travel for 2 nights
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26/9/2011 at 4:37am
 Location: Stoke-on-Trent
 Outfit: Compass Kensington + Octavia 4x4
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Living on the edge of the Peak District has excellent points! Our favourite site is only 15 miles away so we go as often as we can, no dreading the drive home either

Andi


26/9/2011 at 1:50pm
 Location: scotland
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Thank you for all your replies, yea we to use our favourite site just about 60 miles away.
Kind regards
Angela

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26/9/2011 at 2:10pm
 Location: Tyne and Wear
 Outfit: Swift Charisma 555 Audi A6 2.7 tdi
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We have been away many weekends this year, and always try and stick to 60 mins drive at the max.

Quite often getting to site at around 6:30pm, but leaving on Sunday lunchtime it feels like you have been away for ages.



26/9/2011 at 8:42pm
 Location: None Entered
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we go up to an hour away, hour and a half if we really like a place, otherwise it feels like the quick break is more of a driving holiday. we'll take more days off to go further afield.

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26/9/2011 at 11:13pm
 Location: Lincolnshire
 Outfit: Adria Adora Thames
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Went away last weekend. Got back from work at 6.30 on Friday and left at 7.00 with an hours drive to the site. All hooked up and settled by 8.45 pm. We had a great weekend and a nice night out on Saturday. I have to say the weekend felt longer and I was refreshed at work on Monday. 60 miles from home is probably the limit for us on such a short stay. Just nice to spend time with the family away from the 'rat race'. We think the van is the best thing we've ever bought as we've had such a good time in it.
Everyone is different, so each to their own! If people don't want short weekend trips, that's more pitches left empty for us. I find myself getting withdrawl symptoms if we don't get away in the 'van at least every four weeks.


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27/9/2011 at 8:57am
 Location: Wirral
 Outfit: Swift Freestyle 520 on seasonal pitch
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Up to 1 and a half hours travel.


27/9/2011 at 9:47am
 Location: south cheshire
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I never get the caravan out for less than four days, it just seems too much trouble! I was always going away for weekends in the campervan I used to own, but with a caravan to hook up/pitch/get home/pitch again, I found I hadn't recovered from all the setting up and it only seemed like minutes before I was back on the road home.

However, If you have a job to go to, then a weekend away would be worth the trouble, but like others have said, min 4 mights for me, and longest distance for that so far has been 160 miles.

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27/9/2011 at 10:39am
 Location: North West
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For us its time, not distance. Ideally no more than an hour away.


27/9/2011 at 12:35pm
 Location: Darkest Bedfordshire
 Outfit:  Icarus 500+ Beta 450
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We are thinking of driving approx 125 miles this Saturday
to recce a camp site for next year. Might take the Beta 450 + minimal catering kit and stay for one night. Then drive back on the Sunday.

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27/9/2011 at 1:14pm
 Location:  Anglesey - Wales
 Outfit: FoST
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2 hours away at most for a weekend.

It takes us 20 minutes or so just to get off Anglesey so we would normally travel to somewhere like Llangollen but we do go a little further if we can get an early finish from work.

We have started taking the van to work in the morning so we can make a quicker getaway.



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27/9/2011 at 2:17pm
 Location: Manchester
 Outfit: Elddis Jetstream BMW 320D Touring
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60-90mins otherwise it's too much travelling for a short break.
Friday-Monday long weekend I'll do up to 3 hours.
It makes sense by my skewed rule of travel:chillout ratio.


27/9/2011 at 4:03pm
 Location: West Berkshire
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No more than 2 hrs for 2 nights.


27/9/2011 at 6:27pm
 Location: Bristol
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We go away quite a few weekends but not more than an hour away. As long as we're away in the caravan we feel like we've had a break even if we haven't gone far. We go much further for holidays, like this summer towed to the South of France.



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