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I'd love to know which onemy current favourite site
I'd love to know which onemy current favourite site
Nice writeup although I'm a little miffed about the thumbs down for Mkt Harborough. Its only a few miles from where I grew up. Glad you are OK after the fall. I had a similar misadventure a couple of weeks ago. Luckily low speed and no broken bones. Helmets are essential which surprisingly ferw wear in Germany.I have just finished a 13 site cycle ride through England.One person per unit.
1 CAMC site (wirral) £28. Nice location, Nice facilities, just that feeling of regimentation but we were there to cycle every day, not enjoy sitting by the caravan.
2 C&CC sites: Drayton manor, £25, horrendous, theme park in a theme park and leave by 10.30 please: St Neots, lovely place, close to some brilliant pubs and eateries, £21 and delightful if you like thousands of children playing around your van.
An outrageous, overpriced independent, £35 plus £100 security deposit, paid in advance for really nothing to write home about. Brook Meadow near Market Harborough, avoid like the plague. It was an any port in a storm job when injuries to my hand slowed me down a bit.
2 Fishery sites, Makins near Nuneaton and Colemans Cottages, near Chelmsford. Makins, £21, best showers I have ever had but environment like a building site: Colemans, £25 and totally delightful, will definitely go back to. Lovely lake walks, great cycling all around, nice cafe opens 4 days a week and incredibly relaxed and laid back.
One of my favourite sites, a CS, Whitemills Marina, Earls Barton, now £25 but lovely environment, very friendly owners, great Marina-side restaurant, brilliant toilets and shower rooms.
A golf club, Golfworld Stansted, £18, lovely 19th hole, really chilled, no noise from the airport either. Definitely one I would happily return to.
4 farm sites, Green lane near Whitchurch, £25, full of seasonals, felt like an intruder, avoid. Swallow farm, outside Chester, £20, big field, EHU, small toilet block, true free range chickens laying gorgeous free range eggs and THE most helpful farmer who took me to Chester A&E after my nasty crash. Red-lion farm, near Stafford. Another favourite, £22, everything you want but facilities a bit tatty. Flemings, Leigh on sea, £16, no showers or toilets, great views, immaculately kept field with great views over the Roch valley.Very handy for Southend if you like that sort of thing.
Finally, the bad taste in the mouth. Shepreth Mill, near Royston. Booked last year for £22. Turned up to find new owners, £30. Bite the bullet, only stopping two nights, but then £5 extra for EHU. Fortunately with a fully charged Anker 1kw power station on board we could charge the bikes and laptops so it was "no thank you, keep your electricity, and your run down lean-to that passes as a sanitary block".
Finally nothing works without a couple of pics: Leaving the Wirral and arriving Sarfend, and me wearing two different but identical helmets. My first got retired after it possibly saved my life.
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Nice writeup although I'm a little miffed about the thumbs down for Mkt Harborough. Its only a few miles from where I grew up. Glad you are OK after the fall. I had a similar misadventure a couple of weeks ago. Luckily low speed and no broken bones. Helmets are essential which surprisingly ferw wear in Germany.
Brilliant, helpful post thanks. Sounds like a good time apart from the crash, glad you're ok.I have just finished a 13 site cycle ride through England.One person per unit.
1 CAMC site (wirral) £28. Nice location, Nice facilities, just that feeling of regimentation but we were there to cycle every day, not enjoy sitting by the caravan.
2 C&CC sites: Drayton manor, £25, horrendous, theme park in a theme park and leave by 10.30 please: St Neots, lovely place, close to some brilliant pubs and eateries, £21 and delightful if you like thousands of children playing around your van.
An outrageous, overpriced independent, £35 plus £100 security deposit, paid in advance for really nothing to write home about. Brook Meadow near Market Harborough, avoid like the plague. It was an any port in a storm job when injuries to my hand slowed me down a bit.
2 Fishery sites, Makins near Nuneaton and Colemans Cottages, near Chelmsford. Makins, £21, best showers I have ever had but environment like a building site: Colemans, £25 and totally delightful, will definitely go back to. Lovely lake walks, great cycling all around, nice cafe opens 4 days a week and incredibly relaxed and laid back.
One of my favourite sites, a CS, Whitemills Marina, Earls Barton, now £25 but lovely environment, very friendly owners, great Marina-side restaurant, brilliant toilets and shower rooms.
A golf club, Golfworld Stansted, £18, lovely 19th hole, really chilled, no noise from the airport either. Definitely one I would happily return to.
4 farm sites, Green lane near Whitchurch, £25, full of seasonals, felt like an intruder, avoid. Swallow farm, outside Chester, £20, big field, EHU, small toilet block, true free range chickens laying gorgeous free range eggs and THE most helpful farmer who took me to Chester A&E after my nasty crash. Red-lion farm, near Stafford. Another favourite, £22, everything you want but facilities a bit tatty. Flemings, Leigh on sea, £16, no showers or toilets, great views, immaculately kept field with great views over the Roch valley.Very handy for Southend if you like that sort of thing.
Finally, the bad taste in the mouth. Shepreth Mill, near Royston. Booked last year for £22. Turned up to find new owners, £30. Bite the bullet, only stopping two nights, but then £5 extra for EHU. Fortunately with a fully charged Anker 1kw power station on board we could charge the bikes and laptops so it was "no thank you, keep your electricity, and your run down lean-to that passes as a sanitary block".
Finally nothing works without a couple of pics: Leaving the Wirral and arriving Sarfend, and me wearing two different but identical helmets. My first got retired after it possibly saved my life.
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Brilliant, helpful post thanks. Sounds like a good time apart from the crash, glad you're ok.
Quieter?
More ‘off grid’?
Friendlier?
Love thisThe lovely man at Leigh on sea, looked at our shirts, saw we were cycling for charity, and told me to put the site fees in our collecting box.
Loads of lovely parkup spots over near grey mares tail (not the main carpark people do stop there), that’s where I always end up as looked at Moffat site and had the same opinion!Stopped at Moffat C & CC for an overnight pitch a few days ago. Yes sir, we have a pitch, it’ll be £38.90 for members (2 people). When I said that’s a lot, warden said yes, we are expensive. I said no thanks and turned round. We stayed there last August and it was only £21 then! (We ended up at the services near Lanark where it costs £10, really nice stopover with free showers.)
I checked this out when it was first introduced in Northumberland.FORTY FIVE BRITISH POUNDS PER NIGHT!!!!
Honestly!
Wild with Consent is getting some good press recently. A chance to stay in wild remote locations with the land owners consent. Very Basic or No facilities.
FORTY FIVE BRITISH POUNDS PER NIGHT!!!!
Honestly!
A wilder kind of campervanning: park and hike on Dartmoor
A new style of holiday offers off-grid seclusion in a rented campervan, with Devon just one of many places pairing UK landowners with nature-loving travellerswww.theguardian.com
Back to the original question from @Dave Wickham .A problem surfaced at Beadnell C&CC Campsite when we were there recently. Wasn’t a show stopper for us but just posting for information.
The site lost its Internet connectivity. Inconvenient for the campers but also for the on site shop who were unable to sell anything.
The manager advised us that C&CC has gone totally cashless across all their sites with no back up system! If true it’s madness. They had to throw some unsold perishables away.
At least there was a local shop near by.
I think you will like the location. La Flote is small but quaint. Some bigger towns with more to offer are a short drive away. I stayed 2 nights in the car park marked with a star on the map.Back to the original question from @Dave Wickham .
We’re booked at a site in Ile de Re next month and for 8 nights with EHU it’s €469.56 (€58.70 per night). Almost double the €30 price Dave paid at the sites he visited. The site we’re staying at (La Grainetiere) does have good facilities and it is peak season so I’m not unhappy with the cost.
You’d hope they’d give them away…They had to throw some unsold perishables away.
A problem surfaced at Beadnell C&CC Campsite when we were there recently. Wasn’t a show stopper for us but just posting for information.
The site lost its Internet connectivity. Inconvenient for the campers but also for the on site shop who were unable to sell anything.
The manager advised us that C&CC has gone totally cashless across all their sites with no back up system! If true it’s madness. They had to throw some unsold perishables away.
At least there was a local shop near by.
The cards are all flat nowadays though.Have cashless shops really forgotten how to use credit card imprinters!?
I used it recently back in May when I visited France for 2 weeks. Used it 3x. Two were OK but the the 3rd was spoilt by the other 'guests' who created a nuisance. With all the other options France has to offer France Passion is superfluous. I won't be renewing next year.Has anyone used the France passion stops? I believe they are like Brit stops. Located in vineyards, farms, etc , and free. We are off in September to France and have signed up . No idea if they are a good idea. We will probably start using the Brit stops too.
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The cards are all flat nowadays though.
Thanks @CorradobritI think you will like the location. La Flote is small but quaint. Some bigger towns with more to offer are a short drive away. I stayed 2 nights in the car park marked with a star on the map.
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