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We spent christmas week last year in the 'van at Chamonix in the French Alps. Both our sons were living in the area so we decided to take christmas to them for a change. absolutely brilliant, we used a municipal site at Taninge. The site office was manned for 12 hours each day , including xmas...

We spent last christmas (2007) near Chamonix in the Alps in our 'van and we never saw temperatures above minus 3C the whole time we were there! Minus 14c at night meant we definitely used the electric heating right through to the next morning when we switched to gas to free up the electrics for...

Hi M & M sorry to be so slow to respond to your enquiry,the fees for storage are approx

Thankyou everyone I have a CC europe book but it is a couple of years out of date, to be honest I never thought to look because I assumed they would not list municipal sites. You are quite correct about Taninges, one of the guys that runs the site is from Bristol! Over christmas the office was...

I have a question for all you seasoned Euro travellers. I want to make a booking at a specific municipal campsite in a very nice location within 5km of the Le Mans race circuit , I go to the 24hr race every year but am planning to continue on after race W/E further into France, hence we are...

we store our caravan at Hullavington airfield which is located immediately off junction 17 of the M4. The company is called Space Contained and the storage is inside a nice dry bomb proof! aircraft hangar which is very dry, very secure and well looked after. they store classic cars and vehicles...

We took delivery of a Elddis Odyssey 482 in jan 2007 and I immediately began to use it for long term accomodation as I was working on a contract away from home. the 'van was sited at the C & CC site at Malvern and after a few days I discovered the fridge ( Dometic) was not working properly. This...

Like frank I have a 16 month old 2.2 dci Aventura but unlike frank mine has now got 46000 miles on the clock! We have just this W/e returned from a trip to Chamonix in the French alps with the 'van on the back a round trip of 1600miles and the car was superb . We averaged about 24 mpg towing at...

It is perfectly feasible to live in your 'van. We picked up a new elddis Odyssey van in Jan this year and I then began a new work contract in Hereford so decided to put the van on C&CC at Malvern to save on travelling. I stayed throughout Jan. Feb. March and April! including being snowed in for...

WD40 is the answer to all ills , especially road tar marks. Spray it over the affected area and leave for a minute or so and you will see the tar/bitumen begin to disolve.It is also good for removing scuff marks from plastic trim and a host of other things. We used to live in Gibraltar and used...

Garry is quite correct in his assumption, the lakes are no more than worked out gravel and sand excavations in the area. There are now over seventy "lakes" in the area.They have risen in level but that is because of the high water table at the moment due to the rainfall levels. We have started...

We were stopping at Bunree a couple of weeks ago and the midges were not really a problem , probably because of the weather!! The following week we moved down to Keilder Water, I know everybody says this is midge heaven but we weren't expecting things to quite as bad as they were. Absolutely...

Re Pauls enquiry about South Cerney, Silver Street is not closed nor is the A419. Both are very dry! To approach the site come down the A419 to the Spine Road junction, which is clearly named , and turn down the Spine Road heading west. Do not turn into the village at the first junction but...

Sorry , can't spell my own name!! GERALD

Ref Cotswold Hobourne,I live in south Cerney not far from site and drove past this morning. Everything is bone dry , we did have some flooding in the village last Friday when it threw it down but all is well now. I have the River Churn which runs through the village at the end of my garden and...