We're back....
been a while, but having fallen out of love with the caravan (well towing it), were back with a campervan, and amazingly, were coping just fine.
Joined as we love using CL Sites, and been on a couple already.
The new adventures, start here.....
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Congratulations on refinding your travel mojo👍🏻🙂. Tugging your house behind you can be a bind I fell out with caravan hols too. The glory of campervans is you can go anywhere a car can with ease & still have a daily drive & use it to take other forms of hols. . .Win win👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Enjoy.
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Welcome back😁 Sometimes the simplicity of a smaller outfit can take you back to nature more. Enjoy👍
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Rocky , Surely go anywhere depends on the size of the Campervan ?. Whilst on holiday in Helston, Cornwall in September many of the Campervan occupants on site didn't go anywhere just remained outside their outfits. Fortunately the weather was excellent for them, but on conversation with them it was the narrow roads put them off getting around. One lovely older couple with a much smaller outfit was out and about like the Caravaner's everyday.
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That’s the beauty of a campervan as opposed to a coachbuilt MH, ADP. I’ve been saying for years that bigger is not always better.
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Some coachbuilts and indeed my A Class are only 5cm or so wide than a PVC. That is not to say that Cornish lanes are any less challenging. They used to seem pretty tight even when driving solo in my Kuga, mostly because most grockles/emmets can't judge the width of their vehicles.
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We don’t know what the OP has, CY, but if it’s a VW, it will be narrower.
Even with the same width vans, if it comes to arguing with branches sticking out of a hedge, I’d much rather have steel sides that the ali or 'plastic' of a coachbuilt.
Whatever, I’ve always maintained that a hire car is best for most folk when MH-ing in Cornwall.
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Whatever, I’ve always maintained that a hire car is best for most folk when MH-ing in Cornwall.
Would you please include Devon in that comment, TW, as we've been down some "rather" narrow roads in that country today.
Welcome back Pitch, hope you continue to enjoy lots more CLs.
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Ah, yes. The South Hams specialises in them😀
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They're not much better in East Devon either, perhaps not with unforgiving rock wall but very high hedges obstructing ones view, and overgrown with branches and brambles.
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Mmm, single track roads in Scotland are much easier as you can see ahead. 🙂
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Certainly are, and less busy too, but the weather's not as good, especially at the moment.😄
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On Lewis with Harris, apart from the spine road, most of the other roads are single track, but there are so many passing places. You can usually see the next passing place from the previous one, and folk seem really understanding on the road. However, the sites are not generally up to the same standard as CAMC sites. We've never taken the van across - it seems more economical to hire a cottage for the week....
Welcome back, Piltch... Look forward to hear how you are getting on with it all.
David
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Some of the sites are very good, David, even if they're not CAMC clones😄.
In my opinion, like the islands themselves, the sites get better the further south you travel. I was blown away by the standards of some of the facility blocks.
Let me know if you ever want info on the sites we used.
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Thanks TW. If we were going across for a couple of weeks or more then it may be worthwhile taking the 'van, but we've tended to just do 6-7 day stints. Against you've paid the extra ferry costs and the fuel to tug the caravan, it's probably more economical to hire a cottage. I'll certainly be asking for advice, should we go across for a longer period. We've also tended to go Spring or Autumn to avoid midge season.
I do love the Hebrides, though. As you may remember, our eldest daughter and son-in-law moved to Lewis/Harris a couple of years ago.... they love it there....
David
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I remember and I’m a bit envious of them🙂
Yes, ferry fares when towing a caravan will be very different from ours in a PVC. It would need to be a stay of sufficient duration to make it cost effective.
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