Your 2012 travel plans...
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Only Human   Location: Bourne, Lincolnshire | Where are you planning to take your motorhome in 2012? | |||||
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| Pops in from time to time Posts: 81 Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne | Hi, France/spain shortly, back end of april via peterborough show for a wedding in may. Nothing planned for latter part of year but would like to go back to spain over winter. casey. | |||||
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Legendary contributor Posts: 9150    Location: Bedfordshire, Globecar 636SB | Let me think....well here's my first thoughts. Easter head down SW proboly cornwall. Late june NW Scotland, going up from Applecross to Cape Wrath., tho gf thinks France, we'll see! Rest of year hopefully weekends at old favorites and new places. | |||||
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 A posting machine Posts: 391 Location: West Wales; Pilote G600LA | Midlands early March for Crufts. France April/May. Motorcaravanners rally 1st week in June (Carmarthen showground). Oxford early July. After that who knows, but possibly another visit to france in Sept. | |||||
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Forum master Posts: 4279 Location: NE Lincolnshire - M/H - 2012 Adria Sport S572SL | Guess we will start after Habitation check & Servicing, with a few midweek trips from end March & some Shows, then hopefully IOW & New Forest in May. Only one definate trip planned to date. France - end August for however many weeks we can, depending on wife's hospital visits. Edited by flicka 2012-01-11 9:35 PM | |||||
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Epic contributor Posts: 1063  Location: Birmingham, Auto Trail Apache 632 (2017) | We tend to have several trips to Dartmoor, where we have Letterboxing Treks,especially for the Meet in March. If you don't know why Letterboxing is just google it.. Our main trip will be to Lake Garda stopping off at Annecy either on the way down or on the way back. We just don't seem to be able not to call in to Lake Annecy, must be the prettiest town in France ( or is it?) The rest is played by ear, but getting away whenever we can, rather be away than at home, somehow get in some games of golf also.  | |||||
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Forum master Posts: 3704 Location: Way out West (Wales) 2014 Autotrail V line 600 | Hopefully taking a 'Cal-Mac' island Hopscotch to the Western isles in April/May, favourites are the 'Uists and Barra' . then back via Skye to Onich, for a week. we avoid the school holidays then go away again in September. (because we can) don't dislike ALL children, just most of them.  Ray | |||||
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The special one Posts: 12469 Location: E Yorks, Carthago C-Compactline i-138 | France/Spain in April/May, various shows etc, Isle of Wight in July, possibly abroad again later in the year ... and whatever else we feel like!  | |||||
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| Forum master Posts: 2173 Location: South Lincs | Wife wants to do " Paris in the Springtime " then open another Eurotunnel Frequent Traveller Acc and then see as much of France and Germany as we can before begining of October with a bit of the UK thrown in between European Trips. There will be the usual home visits to see Doctors / Dentists / hospital appointments and tend the gardens. The trouble is it passes us by toooooo quickly. | |||||
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Location: shropshire elddis accordo 125 | Herefordshire and southern Powys for a week in March. Various shows throughout spring and summer. French Alps during June. (Weather dependent - could end up in Austria or Italy) Couple of weeks in September abroad - destination yet to be decided. Rallies during autumn. Possible New Year Rally | |||||
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| Treasured contributor Posts: 890 Location: West Yorkshire/France. Rapido 650F (2018) | Well you know where we will be going! Yes that's right, staying on the aires in La Belle France. Hope to make first trip mid Feb, then four more up to end November, making use of tunnel multi-trip ticket. | |||||
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| Liking what I've found Posts: 40 | Can anyone say what the weather will be like in Apr for Sweden and Denmark? Thought we could number crunch these two countries before swinging south to Berlin, Stuttgart and then home for the 1st trip or am I mad?! | |||||
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| Having a look around Posts: 28 Location: St Germans,Cornwall. (Autotrail miami ) | Habitation & annual service done - stated the year at Wells in Somerset , at the Wells Holiday Park- great Adults only pitch - easy walk to town. Hope to travel to Wareham and Isle of Purbeck in early spring. Travelling to the Mosel Valley in June, crossing booked - now in planning stage. hope to return to France early autumn and travel to Lille ( she who must be obeyed has always wanted to go there ! ) Fill in between with short breaks in and around West Country, but tend to ease off during kids summer hols ! | |||||
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| 2012......travel yes.......plans no | ||||||
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| Forum master Posts: 4137 Location: Bury Lancashire | Will be going anywhere where there are craft fairs, junk shops art galleries, antique shops, canal boats and must get to the Black Country museum this year, 27 acres of pure delight for me, a holiday is not a success for me unless I come back with a van loaded to the gunnels with junk. | |||||
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| Epic contributor Posts: 1401 Location: Swindon, Wiltshire | Spending 10 days in France at Easter, nothing planned for the end of May yet ! but our summer tour this year (26 days) is start at Le Havre then travel down through France and return via Bilbao Ferry. All ferries/Sites already booked. We have a fairly large M'home but have never had any problems finding sites that can accommodate us (even the Municipal campsites). All but one are either within walking distance of the local town or have public transport within 200m of the site. All but one of the pitches are fully serviced  | |||||
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| Epic contributor Posts: 1381 Location: Autotrail 610SE Dawlish, Devon | Already away...New Forest, now South Devon, good bargain on sites at present. Feb away, but not in Motohrome - flying to Madeira! March prob a couple of weeks somehwer in UK, then avoiding East in Uk, have booked Yorkshire for a week or two. Mid May 0 Mid July, France, can't think any further ahead than that!! | |||||
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| Just joined Posts: 4 | We are waiting patiently for d.v.l.a to send my husbands driving licence back as a 70 th birthday present, then France, Spain and Portugal are on the agenda. We will be back in u.k. by june and go to a couple of shows, and attempt to go to Tunisia via Italy and ferry to Tunis. I wonder how many times we have been on aires in France and been parked up next to a van that belongs to someone from this forum. | |||||
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| Forum master Posts: 3241 Location: France, or in our 2005 Burstner Privilege t585 | We're off to France in July for 3 weeks, clockwise tour during which we hope to co-incide with the Tour de France at least 3 times. Nothing booked except the ferry, so we might change our minds as we go along! But we'll also be doing all sorts of smaller trips, from the odd Sunday night away (Monday's my day off!) to a long weekend for my 60th birthday. Oh, and we'll also be also using the van as a cheap way to attend a conference later this month. | |||||
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Gets involved Posts: 263 Location: Lincoln | Portugal and Northern Spain in May/June then possibly SE France/Northern Italy and or Switzerland in Sep/Oct can't wait. | |||||
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| Forum master Posts: 3758 Location: Vanless in Hampshire | lalapanzi - 2012-01-29 2:45 PM . I wonder how many times we have been on aires in France and been parked up next to a van that belongs to someone from this forum. I have often wondered this as well. Maybe we could have a "Badge" to show we are contributors , and display this, so others could say hello . Any one able to design one? Then we could print it off PJay | |||||
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| Forum master Posts: 3241 Location: France, or in our 2005 Burstner Privilege t585 | PJay - 2012-02-02 11:48 AM lalapanzi - 2012-01-29 2:45 PM . I wonder how many times we have been on aires in France and been parked up next to a van that belongs to someone from this forum. I have often wondered this as well. Maybe we could have a "Badge" to show we are contributors , and display this, so others could say hello . Any one able to design one? Then we could print it off PJay How's this as a first attempt?  (Badge.png) (Badge.png) Attachments ----------------  Badge.png (26KB - 777 downloads) Badge.png (26KB - 758 downloads) | |||||
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| Forum master Posts: 3241 Location: France, or in our 2005 Burstner Privilege t585 | PJay - 2012-02-02 11:48 AM lalapanzi - 2012-01-29 2:45 PM . I wonder how many times we have been on aires in France and been parked up next to a van that belongs to someone from this forum. I have often wondered this as well. Maybe we could have a "Badge" to show we are contributors , and display this, so others could say hello . Any one able to design one? Then we could print it off PJay How's this for a first attempt? Edited by Tony Jones 2012-02-02 1:44 PM (Badge.png) Attachments ---------------- Badge.png (26KB - 767 downloads) | |||||
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| Forum master Posts: 3241 Location: France, or in our 2005 Burstner Privilege t585 | (Double post) Edited by Tony Jones 2012-02-02 1:44 PM | |||||
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| Forum master Posts: 3758 Location: Vanless in Hampshire | Tony Not bad at all. i think it needs be bigger, but could enlarge it. Any one else got a "Badge" I-m not clever enough to do Pics and things on computer | |||||
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Forum master Posts: 3704 Location: Way out West (Wales) 2014 Autotrail V line 600 | Rayjsj - 2012-01-12 5:19 PM Hopefully taking a 'Cal-Mac' island Hopscotch to the Western isles in April/May, favourites are the 'Uists and Barra' . then back via Skye to Onich, for a week. we avoid the school holidays then go away again in September. (because we can) don't dislike ALL children, just most of them. RayNow booked, May/June hope the weather is better than last year. 'Europe' has 'put me off' with it's new 'laws' to bug tourists. compulsory Breathalysers,new LEZ's,No A-Frames etc., etc.,. Edited by Rayjsj 2012-02-02 2:45 PM | |||||
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| Epic contributor Posts: 1023 Location: South Berkshire | Braving the weather this weekend for 4 days. End of March off to Spain Portugal, back through France and Switzerland back to UK end of May. | |||||
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| Pillar of the forums Posts: 745 | Love the badge Tony.We are going to ahem Hongkong/Australia?New Zealand and Thailand next month for just over a month.NOT with the motorhome.Then its weekends in Britain until the last week in August first 3 weeks in September when probably it will be France. | |||||
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| Having a look around Posts: 22 | Canoe season starts now so as from next weekend until September time we are going to Shepperton, Scotland, Tee's, Nottingham, Lee Valley for Selection event then Olympic event, Cardiff for World Cup race and probably loads more that I can't remember off the top of my head. Hoping that we can get a weekend in Thetford Forest just to relax away from canoeing and work. No long holiday this year in the van, maybe next year Spent 2 weeks in Scotland last Easter and 3 weeks last October in Australia and neither of us has much holiday left let alone the time!!! Going to be a busy year. | |||||
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| Having a look around Posts: 32 | 2012 will see us carrying on our wandering around Europe that we started in October last year. We'll keep going until we run out of money, then it'll be back to reality and getting jobs. In Jan we took a detour out of Europe into Morocco - well it was freezing everywhere - now hubby has been bitten by the bug and is talking about Tunisia, has anyone been? How does it compare to Morocco? Julie OurTour.co.uk - A mid life European and Moroccan wander in a motorhome | |||||
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| Just joined Posts: 13 | France/Switzerland in June/July, various shows etc,September Southend possibly abroad again later and whatever else we feel like! | |||||
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| Liking what I've found Posts: 53 | We hope to be off to France in a week or two, then maybe a tiny bit of Italy before returning via Switzerland, Germany and Holland. We don't need to be back until about the middle of October for van MOT / service. Paul | |||||
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| Pillar of the forums Posts: 745 | Plenty of weekends over here then amonth in France.No idea where yet! | |||||
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| Just joined Posts: 2 | We had lots of plans both at home in UK and in Europe! Then last month along came a German Lorry Driver travelling TOO FAST & TOO CLOSE to stop, when we had to for Roadworks. Result We are now looking for a replacement motorhome for our Hymer B 630 which we had just got upto the stadard we required. This has been "written off" by the insurance company. So if anyone knows of a Lefthand drive, Rear wheel drive, with Garage and good payload, PLEASE get in touch. | |||||
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Pops in from time to time Posts: 120 Location: Selby, North Yorkshire Auto-Trail Cheyenne 840D SE | Our plans so far this year - but there will be more added to the itinerary. Scotland - late May early June NorthYorkshire - June Wales - July France/Luxembourg/Germany - August & September Autumn/Winter - not planned yet. | |||||
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| Keeps coming back for more Posts: 199 Location: Hobby Van T500 FSC | We spent 7 weeks in France in April/May from Calais to Cannes (and bumped into (not literally) a chap called Brian Kirby - resident of this parish). September will see us on a GB Privilege tour of a month in the Alps (we tend to do one such tour each year) and we will probably take another 2 or 3 weeks to travel back from where we finish up in Italy. Other than that, we tend to get away every month in the UK for 10 days or so (December through February less so, unless weather is reasonable) . In total we spend about 120 nights in the Van each year and travel around 8000 miles. Great life! Richard. | |||||
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| Just joined Posts: 6 | We spent 4 weeks in Germany in june. It was great time  | |||||
