Our first Euro tour.

[PaulIrons]

This is our second year in caravanning and I must say that its the best thing we have ever done. I think its about time now to start planning for our first venture abroad. To start of with just a short hop over to France will be the best bet. I just want to ask you out there for as many tips as possible, i.e. Nice site which is easy to get to, electricity changes, ferries, you know the general things you have to do to enjoy a stress free time. Thanks in advance.

 

[colin(bridgend)]

Hi Paul. My wife and self went to Britany for two weeks and as it was our first outing abroad with the caravan we went with select sites of abergaveny (www.select-sites. not sure whether co.uk or com.). We stayed at Camp Du Lety at Benodet. They arranged every thing for us, all we did was arrange passports and euros.

We sailed from Plymoth to Roskoff thinking we would do most driving in this country. The road from Roskoff to Quimper was excellent dual carraigeway - the only down side was the lack of petrol stations on this road.

Benodet was beautiful as was all the area. The site was spotless and right on the beach (50yd. walk out of the van to the beach). We were approx. 15 minutes walk via the coast path into Benodet. We covered approx. 1000 miles without any problems, the streets and beaches were spotless and the sceanery was fantastic. Don't worry about driving on the wrong side of the road, I had no problems what so ever, your main concern is to pull out when overtaking. Roundabouts are all clearly marked which way to go.

I would recommend that you contact select sites and obtain their brochure and pricing, we will certainly be using their services again.

Good luck and enjoy your new found pleasure and happy caravaning in France.

 

[colin(bridgend)]

Hi Paul. My wife and self went to Britany for two weeks and as it was our first outing abroad with the caravan we went with select sites of abergaveny (www.select-sites. not sure whether co.uk or com.). We stayed at Camp Du Lety at Benodet. They arranged every thing for us, all we did was arrange passports and euros.

We sailed from Plymoth to Roskoff thinking we would do most driving in this country. The road from Roskoff to Quimper was excellent dual carraigeway - the only down side was the lack of petrol stations on this road.

Benodet was beautiful as was all the area. The site was spotless and right on the beach (50yd. walk out of the van to the beach). We were approx. 15 minutes walk via the coast path into Benodet. We covered approx. 1000 miles without any problems, the streets and beaches were spotless and the sceanery was fantastic. Don't worry about driving on the wrong side of the road, I had no problems what so ever, your main concern is to pull out when overtaking. Roundabouts are all clearly marked which way to go.

I would recommend that you contact select sites and obtain their brochure and pricing, we will certainly be using their services again.

Good luck and enjoy your new found pleasure and happy caravaning in France.

Paul - I forgot to mention that in this area of France we did not encounter any toll highways. Good luck

 

[PaulIrons]

Hi Paul. My wife and self went to Britany for two weeks and as it was our first outing abroad with the caravan we went with select sites of abergaveny (www.select-sites. not sure whether co.uk or com.). We stayed at Camp Du Lety at Benodet. They arranged every thing for us, all we did was arrange passports and euros.

We sailed from Plymoth to Roskoff thinking we would do most driving in this country. The road from Roskoff to Quimper was excellent dual carraigeway - the only down side was the lack of petrol stations on this road.

Benodet was beautiful as was all the area. The site was spotless and right on the beach (50yd. walk out of the van to the beach). We were approx. 15 minutes walk via the coast path into Benodet. We covered approx. 1000 miles without any problems, the streets and beaches were spotless and the sceanery was fantastic. Don't worry about driving on the wrong side of the road, I had no problems what so ever, your main concern is to pull out when overtaking. Roundabouts are all clearly marked which way to go.

I would recommend that you contact select sites and obtain their brochure and pricing, we will certainly be using their services again.

Good luck and enjoy your new found pleasure and happy caravaning in France.

Thanks a lot Colin, your advice has been taken on board and I will shortly be exploring the web site you have mentioned.

 

[Moley1]

This will be our first trip to France with a caravan. We only started caravanning last year and are now on our second caravan.

We have managed to book Ch