Plans for 2023?
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I'll kick it off then.
We are off to Spain in January for a 47 night trip and then in April we are driving down to Sicily and using up the balance of our Schengen allowance.
Aside from that the outline plan for Sept is Germany.
Rhat'll be our foreign trips for this year so we'll just slot some UK ones around them. There will be several up to the west country to visit friends and family and we usually get 2-3 weeks down in Cornwall/Devon/Dorset before the schools break up for summer.
We are off to Spain in January for a 47 night trip and then in April we are driving down to Sicily and using up the balance of our Schengen allowance.
Aside from that the outline plan for Sept is Germany.
Rhat'll be our foreign trips for this year so we'll just slot some UK ones around them. There will be several up to the west country to visit friends and family and we usually get 2-3 weeks down in Cornwall/Devon/Dorset before the schools break up for summer.
Per the 'France' thread, we're off to Netherlands, Belgium, Lux, and then into Germany, starting probably mid March.
The intention is to visit some old haunts, and maybe stray east into Czech for a short hop, before skimming a bit of Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and maybe Liechtenstein.
Finally we'll drift up the east side of France which is a part of the country we've managed to miss so far.
Shengen is not an issue for myself or Mrs K, both of us having Estonian pasports to play with.
Out via Harwich, back via whatever port we end up at in France.
The intention is to visit some old haunts, and maybe stray east into Czech for a short hop, before skimming a bit of Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and maybe Liechtenstein.
Finally we'll drift up the east side of France which is a part of the country we've managed to miss so far.
Shengen is not an issue for myself or Mrs K, both of us having Estonian pasports to play with.
Out via Harwich, back via whatever port we end up at in France.
Cass63 said:
Off to Le Mans in June, from oxford to Dover to Calais by ferry because our normal route Portsmouth to Caen is extortionate. Then back over to Spain via France both in our motorhome, lots of driving but we’ve got 3 weeks over there.
Ouch. £300 one way on the ninth. The LeMans effect!Cost us £120 a couple of months ago.
Did you look at Newhaven?
I normally have loads of weekends booked for the forthcoming year, but as a member of the Caravan Club who have just introduced the need to pay a deposit when booking, I don't have any bookings made at all. I have no intention of coughing up say £20 per weekend for the whole of summer 2023, with them holding onto my money. I'll be relying on checking the site availability in the days leading up to the weekends to see if they have pitches.
Steve Kimberley said:
Cass63 said:
Off to Le Mans in June, from oxford to Dover to Calais by ferry because our normal route Portsmouth to Caen is extortionate. Then back over to Spain via France both in our motorhome, lots of driving but we’ve got 3 weeks over there.
Ouch. £300 one way on the ninth. The LeMans effect!Cost us £120 a couple of months ago.
Did you look at Newhaven?
Planning for a week in Polzeath and then another week in Pembrokshire.
Polzeath will be on a nice campsite, meals out each night etc, Pembrokshire will be the 'roughing it' one where we take the bare minimum use the same hoody all week and piss in a wetsuit instead of a toilet
Aim to do a few long weekends here and there, just to do some cycling/walking in different places.
Polzeath will be on a nice campsite, meals out each night etc, Pembrokshire will be the 'roughing it' one where we take the bare minimum use the same hoody all week and piss in a wetsuit instead of a toilet
Aim to do a few long weekends here and there, just to do some cycling/walking in different places.
This summer we’ll be off to the continent with the trailer tent again. In this time August as Mrs IJ is restricted to school holidays now. Tunnel prices are a bit spicy in August! Only £50 cheaper than Harwich-Hook of Holland with a dog friendly cabin…
Anyway. Netherlands, Germany and France. Here’s the route:
Got a few planned for this year with the new van.
May is my 50th birthday and I'm not a fan of surprise parties etc so we have booked 2 days in the lakes, then on to galloway in Scotland for a couple of nights, then over to the Isle of arran, we'll be going across to Holy island on the east coast on our way back down.
Silverstone for 3 days in August for motogp.
We will have several long weekends through spring and summer, usually fairly local, castleton, holme firth etc, near enough every other weekend we'll be off somewhere with the dogs.
May is my 50th birthday and I'm not a fan of surprise parties etc so we have booked 2 days in the lakes, then on to galloway in Scotland for a couple of nights, then over to the Isle of arran, we'll be going across to Holy island on the east coast on our way back down.
Silverstone for 3 days in August for motogp.
We will have several long weekends through spring and summer, usually fairly local, castleton, holme firth etc, near enough every other weekend we'll be off somewhere with the dogs.
italianjob1275 said:
This summer we’ll be off to the continent with the trailer tent again. In this time August as Mrs IJ is restricted to school holidays now. Tunnel prices are a bit spicy in August! Only £50 cheaper than Harwich-Hook of Holland with a dog friendly cabin…
Anyway. Netherlands, Germany and France. Here’s the route:
Enjoy your trip. Yes, the tunnel prices seem horrendous this year, we opted for P&O with Tesco vouchers for £340 instead (less than half the price).
We are currently on our first trip of the year and staying on the coast SW of Murcia in Spain. 1600 mile drive to get here from west Wales!
13 degrees and sunny but we drove through Wales, England and France mostly in the rain (and snow in France). Normally it's a lot warmer than 13 degrees so hoping it'll pick up.
13 degrees and sunny but we drove through Wales, England and France mostly in the rain (and snow in France). Normally it's a lot warmer than 13 degrees so hoping it'll pick up.
Morzine in the French Alps for a week in July for our wedding and mountain biking and then over to Lake Como for a week. Sadly until we've saved enough for the wedding I don't think the MH will be out much. I guess later in the year it'll be a few weekends away in the UK and maybe Lake District between Christmas and the New Year.
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