Aires Videos
For Motorhome owners travelling to France new Aires videos added to - https://www.youtube.com/user/keithchesterfield
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Wow! Some shockers aren't there. Thanks for posting the warnings.
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Would you like to elaborate on the 'shockers' and why you think they are warnings?
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Keith, I read Dianne's description on here of the campsite where she currently is in Austria (How Rural can you get in Austria), and I then look at the tarmac car park where you parked in St Sauveur. Quite a contrast.
Did you choose yours because it was free, or did she choose hers because she takes pleasure and enjoyment in her surroundings ? I am frankly amazed that owners of expensive motorhomes choose to spend their holidays in tarmac car parks.
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The vast majority of European Motorhomers use Aires and Stellplaze etc as a convenient and fairly safe place to park for the night.
The low cost/free is a bonus.
There is no requirement to sit in an expensive camping chair and admire the view and /or sunbathe every day as travelling is the main aim.
Anyway it's all been said before so I'll get on with seeing the world....well at least the bit I can reach
PS. Some of the 'car parks' I have stayed in have the best views in the whole of Europe....but location is the requirement and the view is a bonus for an hour or two.
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I have to say that looking at the photos Nonacourt seems to be one to avoid and Le Bugue seems to be on a 45 degree gradient.
Only had the Motorhome for a year and yet to use an aire despite 8 weeks travelling around France, Italy and Switzerland. We have seen a few but never been tempted but I guess this much depends on what you want to do. If you want to see a town or are in a hurry then they are ideal, if you want to stop off for a few days and settle into the site's ambiance as we generally do then most aires are not so good.
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It's not invariably a case of either / or. We use Aires / Stellplatze / Sostas for 2 main reasons:
- a convenient overnight stop: before (or after) a Tunnel crossing; en route to a main destination which is, usually, a site where we stay and relax and "take pleasure and enjoyment in the surroundings".
- a place to stay overnight to enable us easily to explore a town or a city, and where we spend very little time in the motorhome. These locations are invariably part of a journey en route to another destination. 2 such, among many, which we have used frequently are the Stellplatze at Baden-Baden and at Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
But there are Aires .. and Aires... and occasionally, a 3rd reason might suggest itself: an Aire, which could never be described as a "tarmac car park", found in such lovely surroundings that we are tempted to stay and "take pleasure and enjoyment" in those surroundings. 2 immediately spring to mind - a quiet, charming spot on the banks of the Lot at St Cirq Lapopie and another on the banks of the Loire in a very attractive canal basin town. Even then, stopovers are limited to time. 48 hours would seem to be an average.
As both a caravanner and a motorhomer I do appreciate the opportunities offered by Aires and the like which are not available to me when I use the caravan.
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