This Year's Big Adventure!
A New Year is almost upon us again. Time to get planning, maps out, guide books out, sporting calendars at the ready! We have got our first "new to us" tour sorted, with others mulling over!
Sometimes, having restrictions on how long we can get away can make for the most interesting adventures, and last year proved a wonderful voyage of discovery. We have been to areas of this lovely country we have never thought of visiting before and found such diverse places of interest! Many totally exceeded our expectations, and just shows how reality can be far different to perception!
Rail travel has featured heavily for me as well, and astonished how cheap, easy and enjoyable this has been, so long as good planning has been used.
Whatever your plans are, either here or over the waters, I hope you all have a very nice time, and may this year's special place prove enjoyable! Cheers!
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Indeed, if you’re a ‘fair weather vanner’, now is a good time to be planning your future outings (so long as they don’t include a honeypot site).
It matters little how good last year’s trips fared. Much of the fun comes from the planning and anticipation of the next ones.
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We got back from our latest trip only a week ago, and next one will be within next fortnight, so we include consulting a weather app in our plans as well! Will be odd Club Site for us possibly if price suits, otherwise undiscovered CLs and some small private
sites. Our top new venues last year were three private sites. Definitely ones to return to again for longer stays. hope to find more of the same this year, in areas new to us.0 -
Our big adventures will as usual be non- caravan. Caravan holiday tours are not in that category at all, even though they are all overseas now.
Adventures are another thing altogether. If TTDA and others like railways then come with us and zig zag across India on the trains. That's Adventure.
I don't know how This Year's Big Adventure finds it's way into a section about UK Sites
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It is indeed, got a colleague who did India by train. When we get chance to holiday longer I want to do Canada by train
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Was looking forward to UK or even Europe tour this year once we return from NZ in March. However, news from our daughter living in NZ means that we'll be back out there again for July plus some before and lots after, to enjoy our new grandchild and our
granddaughter. So our plans will involve much thinking and logistics but not our own motorhome apart from a couple of months in between the NZ visits when work permits - thank the lord for the majority of bank holidays in the early spring/summer.Whatever anyone is planning, enjoy the planning as well as the trip.
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If we can manage it we'll try to visit another UK island with our van, there are still lots of places in the UK we haven't seen. Might go to Ireland again, if possible. Just depends on family circumstances and travelling with ageing dogs.
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Great to know people have got lots of nice personal things to look forward to doing, and sorting out. We treat every new trip as an adventure, haven't been disappointed yet. Bad luck for all those who were looking forward to New Year at Rowntree Park, but
main thing is no one hurt or injured, lots of other places instead. York businesses will be glad of support once things are back up and functioning, so great if it doesn't put visitors off for good!0 -
Pondering a tour of Wales but not decided yet. May end up somewhere else entirely. Not sure I'd classify it as an adventure, though. My last "adventure" was to the Arctic four or five years ago.
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The only thing we've got definitely fixed so far is a tour of the East ( as in Norfolk/Suffolk area, not Phuket!). Hoping to head towards Anglesey later in the year. So hardly major adventures. But just starting to think again about a tour of New Zealand,
probably early 2017 now.
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We have our major adventure abroad for six weeks but then lots of month long adventures in this country usually on CLs. Last year however with no good CL nearby in two areas we used a commercial site and were agreeably surprised with both so maybe our adventure this year will be trying a few more. Incidentally both commercial sites had started as CLs in the past.
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Too early for us to be thinking about where our adventure next year will be as we're still having this year's.
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My big adventure will be a tour of Wales in my new (to me) motorhome, using my new electric bike. Very different from my previous caravan and Shogun combination.
Which one did you go for in the end? I'm sure you will have a great time getting used to the new toys
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We have a wedding in April.........any suggestions re "father of the bride's speech" most welcome
......then we are heading abroad late April. We have 6 nights to wend our way to Dover, with my sister who will be over from Norway, so any suggestions on sites en route are also most welcome. Maybe 2 x 3 night stops.
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Next year not sure about 'Big Adventure' but we are hoping to try a canal boat trip with my sister and BIL. We have talked about it for years but not been possible with caring for Mum 24/7, however it now is, not sure where or what canal as we've never done
it before (might start a thread for advice) The big adventure we would like to do is round the world, looking at all sorts of stopovers and cruises we do, its going to take to putting together.0 -
My big adventure will be a tour of Wales in my new (to me) motorhome, using my new electric bike. Very different from my previous caravan and Shogun combination.
Which one did you go for in the end? I'm sure you will have a great time getting used to the new toys
..My new ProRider electric bike is being delivered on the 5th January. A full sized step through. Anyone want a push bike?
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My big adventure will be a tour of Wales in my new (to me) motorhome, using my new electric bike. Very different from my previous caravan and Shogun combination.
Which one did you go for in the end? I'm sure you will have a great time getting used to the new toys
..My new ProRider electric bike is being delivered on the 5th January. A full sized step through. Anyone want a push bike?
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We have a wedding in April.........any suggestions re "father of the bride's speech" most welcome
I did that routine a few years back and was complimented on the quality of the speech. Send me your E mail address and I can send you a copy as a framework for ideas. My E Mail is in my profile.
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We tour all year round but always like to do something different for our main summer holiday. This year we are going to stay in the UK we are thinking of having 2 weeks at the CC site in Looe as we have never been there before and then we would like to have a couple of weeks in the Somerset area probably June/July time next year. We will be doing a bit of research to see where to go. Also we will hopefully visit our favourite places throughout the year such as Berwick, Lake District, Blackpool, Killin etc.
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Our big adventure this year will be a springtime trip to Broadway and Bladon Chains, two sites we have never visited.
Looking forward to exploring the Cotswolds, Blenheim and visiting Bletchley Park for its wartime history.
Has anyone any advice about peaceful pitches with evening sun at either of those sites please?
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