Greetings from a new CT member

PenelopeandParker
PenelopeandParker Forum Participant Posts: 12
edited January 2016 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

Hello everybody, my partner and I have been caravanning both in UK and Europe for about seven years. Recently we have been following the CT forum and find it very interesting and informative. We are planning our 2016 holiday to Austria and would welcome
any advice. We shall cross over to Holland from Harwich (first time) on the 24/7 and return by the same route on the 14/8. Austria is breaking new ground for us though we did spend a very nice week or so at Berchtesgaden 3 years ago at the site which was under
discussion on the forum recently (steep and winding access road) and crossed into Austria briefly, as that is where the satnav directed. We are looking at the Innsbruck and Saltzburg areas for this trip leaving the eastern part of the country for another year.
Two one-week stays would be ideal so if anyone has found that 'perfect little pitch', we'd love to hear from you. Cheers.

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  • Oneputt
    Oneputt Club Member Posts: 9,145 ✭✭✭
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    edited January 2016 #2

    Hi P&P and welcome to CT.  We use the Harwich to HOH ferry regularly.  Although more expensive we perfer the night crossing as on arrival we have the whole day to make progress to our first site.  We will be travelling to Hungary via Holland, Germany and Austria this year.  We will probably stay at the Moselle and Berchesgarten in Germany on the way down then not sure.  For information Dianne T's site: Joys of European Caravanning is excellent

  • JillwithaJay
    JillwithaJay Club Member Posts: 2,485 ✭✭
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    edited January 2016 #3

    Hello Penelope and Parker and welcome to Club Together.

    I'm moving your post into the Overseas Sites and Touring Section as I think you're  likely to receive more responses there from members who tour overseas.

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  • rogher
    rogher Forum Participant Posts: 609
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    edited January 2016 #4

    Hello P&P, welcome to the forum. You’ll have just missed what may be a useful thread to follow, so I’ll

    link it here for you    . Feel free to ask any others.

  • DSB
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    edited January 2016 #5

    I haven't been to Saltzburg for years.  One of these days we'll revisit.  I remember visiting some of the Sound of Music 'haunts', the cathedral and Mozarts birthplace.  According to a friend of ours who has been within the last few years, you can still buy 'Mozart's Balls' too!  - a chocolate/ marzipan delecacy - about the same size as a Ferrero Rocher. 

    David 

  • Hakinbush
    Hakinbush Forum Participant Posts: 286
    edited January 2016 #6

    If your going to Saltzburg a must is the salt mines, and that mansion with all the fountains that always seem to soak us Brits when we walk by..

  • Longtimecaravanner
    Longtimecaravanner Forum Participant Posts: 642
    edited January 2016 #7

    Like a lot of other visitors to Innsbruck we stayed at Nattersee and at Berchtesgaden to visit Saltzberg but another site I would recommend is Sportcamp Woferlgut near Zell am Zee and you can read more information about the sites and area in my blog

    jennyandjohngocaravanning.wordpress.com

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  • DianneT
    DianneT Forum Participant Posts: 521
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    edited January 2016 #9

    Hi 2 excellent sites I would recommend is
    here     for Innsbruck and here for Salzburg, Bertchesgaden, Wolfgangsee,  Mondsee, Halstadt, Salzkammergut, excellent site Price 20, 50 Euros per night.  Lovely Family run camp site.  Near Werfen Castle where
    "Where Eagles Dare" was filmed and some of the "Sound of Music"  

    If you go to my website here you can see Photo's taken in last years Trip 2016 and more in 2015. If you need any more info please contact me I will be pleased to help.

    DianneT

  • PenelopeandParker
    PenelopeandParker Forum Participant Posts: 12
    edited January 2016 #10

    Thank you all so very much. We will now spend some time researching all that useful info. In particular, misbehaving fountains, Mozart's yummies and perhaps most significant of all, border crossing issues. You'd have to be a recluse not to be aware of the
    migration issue but this was the first piece of hard information we had received about how these new restrictions were causing problems for motorists. Not rocket science but it may be that we mere holidaymakers  might consider changing our plans to suit. We
    are ware that talk of holidays, in light of a humanitarian crisis, might appear frivolous so apologies if anybody should be offended, as no offence is implied. All the best, PandP.

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