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evening all, been caravanning for 20 odd years but never been across to France, thinking of going about end of august beginning September, not sure where to sail from or where to even go, so do any of you go ?? looking for some pointers and advice, preferably staying near the coast, cheers all SFA

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evening all, been caravanning for 20 odd years but never been across to France, thinking of going about end of august beginning September, not sure where to sail from or where to even go, so do any of you go ?? looking for some pointers and advice, preferably staying near the coast, cheers all SFA

 

Try Caravan Talk forum ,plenty of them have done this journey loads of times and they will point you in the right direction .

Look in the posts for overseas or caravan chat .

 

Ste

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evening all, been caravanning for 20 odd years but never been across to France, thinking of going about end of august beginning September, not sure where to sail from or where to even go, so do any of you go ?? looking for some pointers and advice, preferably staying near the coast, cheers all SFA

 

Good Beaches = Riviera. Cant beat swimming in the Mediterranean sea at 20+ degrees in August.

 

Also, no need for breathalyser tests on board any more.

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Use camping municipal sites.

They are council run and are excellent and very cheap too.

Most every commune has one.

Also look for camping ala ferme.

These again offer a smashing alternative from mainstream commercial camp sites at a reasonable price.

Ty

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Get the boat from dover. Its a great experience seeing the cliffs disappear from the back of the ship especially at sunset.

 

Toll roads are great, no traffic. Alsace is a great part of the world, not by the sea but the weather seems to be better in my experience. Provence is nice but a trek with a Van. If you don't want to go too far Brittany is nice. About 6 hours from Calais to St Malo, roads not great.

 

France is the most under rated place I have been to, great food and lots of history if that's your thing.

 

Enjoy! :thumbup1:

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Hi,

 

If you want to go to SW France, ie Brittany or further south to the Vendee, then you might like to consider Portsmouth to St Malo or Plymouth to Roscoff for Brittany.

 

St Malo is a good start because the boat goes down the Cherbourg peninsula & cuts out about 2 hours of towing of driving.

 

Brittany, is particularly scenic similar to Cornwall & we live in the southern Vendee, the coast pretty well all the way down has lots of camp sites. However as Ty said the municipal ones are very good.

 

The Loire valley is also rather nice & the principle area for Muscadet, Sancerre & Pouilly Fume to name a few

 

 

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