What are your favourite things to do abroad?
What do you get up to when you tour overseas? Are you a surfer, snowboarder, hiker, or something completely different?
I’d love to hear about your experiences and plans for this year! 
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Can you tell us a little about your touring Rochelle, are you a Motorhomer or Caravanner? or was it trips away with your parents that got you interested in the pastime/hobby.
We, we are walkers mainly, there has to be a trail of some description during the day for us and our dog. Love to get into the more remote spots where there is nothing more noisy than the natural wildlife around us, and frequently getting lost.
In a few weeks we are away for 9 weeks down through France, into Italy before moving across into Slovenia and Austria. Different cultures, different foods and attempting to communicate in their tongue, all a bit challenging as you get older, but an adventure nonetheless.
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Hi DaveFL2, thanks for asking! I'd actually say I'm more of a tent camper myself. I've been to lots of music festivals over the years, and when I was younger I used to go on "dads' and daughters'" camping trips to the south coast. If we were really lucky
we would go surfing in the south of France, fond memories!0 -
Hi DaveFL2, thanks for asking! I'd actually say I'm more of a tent camper myself. I've been to lots of music festivals over the years, and when I was younger I used to go on "dads' and daughters'" camping trips to the south coast. If we were really lucky
we would go surfing in the south of France, fond memories!Sounds good
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I don't tour overseas.
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We love walking in the high Alpes and Pyrenees, OH is a keen road cyclist, so likes to get a few cols in too.
And birding, sightseeing, sampling the local food and wine.
Love touring in the 'van, both at home, and abroad.
(I even enjoy being on the ferry!)
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We can't manage long walks but do lots of 'toddles' of two or three miles enjoying the countryside and wildlife. Love shopping for food in the markets and looking round all the historical places but mainly its just enjoying the totally different ambiance.
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Get up. Go to bakery. Buy croissants. Brew coffee. Hve breakfast in sunshine. Read book. Stroll in to market. Buy cheese and bread. Retun to site. Have lunch. Drink wine. Snooze. Read book. Go for swim. Head out for a bit oflight sightseeing. If in Camargue
goto a Course Camarguaise. Consider options for dinner. HAve diner. Drink more wine. Read book. Bed.0 -
Cooked breakfast (on the Cadac) or croissants, followed by sightseeing, chilling out in the sun (usually with a glass or two of vino), meeting people (more wine), barbecuing/cadac in (more wine), French bread/cheese. visiting the campsite jacuzzi etc.
David
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As we have an apartment in Spain, we aren't using the van abroad atm. Sitting on the beach, watching the world go by, a swim, read a bit. Back to the apartment- fall asleep on bed reading book. Chilling on the balcony, scoffing olives, crisps and cerveza.
It's all go you know.0 -
Sitting in the sun drinking wine!!!!!...I didn't realise I was in the company of so many exciting and adventurous peronalities
There was me thinking that TV programmes like 'Benidorm' were fictitious
PS. Sorry, I forgot the eating inbetween!
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Living outdoors, going to the fish market before breakfast, fruit and veg from the market and a day onthe beach.
Am on a ferry at the moment and cant wait to get going.
Write your comments here...have a great holiday. Lynne
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As long as there's some wildlife to see, some walks to be walked, some wine to be drunk, some different culture and history to be investigated, some food markets to be explored then anywhere on the continent is fine by me.
Then again I could repeat this statement if you started a similar thread on UK touring.
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I like gentle strolls not long walks or hikes. I like riding my bike. I love being by water, doesn't matter if its a lake, sea or river I could sit all day watching it and hopefully people enjoying themselves. I like visiting new places of interest, especially
old towns. Not interested in art galleries, drinking wine and markets. Don't mind the odd museum but couldn't do them everyday, I like big houses/castles/palaces with magnificent gardens. I don't mind the odd hour on the beach but couldn't spend all day there.
I like places of interest and natural beauty. Rarely eat out, would rather cook for ourselves. I like to sit in the sun reading a good book or listening to music. Basicly a bit of this and a bit of that, same as I do at home but in the warmth.0 -
The excitement of the journey south. Taking in all the different landscapes.
A night or two at different towns. The freedom to go where you please.
Alfresco cooking, lying on the beach in the sun reading, dipping into the sea for a swim, visiting markets and most of all 'relaxing' ??
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Taking the bikes and having a good bike ride 30 mile'ish with a refreshment stop or two or three and not drinking tea!!!
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Love visiting different countries and tasteing different foods, meeting the locals and touring the area we are in by car as we cannot do long walks now. Mountain passes in Austria, Germany,Slovenia and Italy are our favourite trips.
DianneT.
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We are heading back to Normandy this year... What am I looking forward to?
Fresh French bread and pastries and the delights from a local patisserie are a given, but also the excitement of finding your pitch and exploring the campsite...then there is cooking outside, swimming, days out exploring the local area, family games nights
(our 9 yo loves playing board games and cards when we are away), making our own moules (must remember to take the special pot we got last time, fits a treat on the cadac...) with frites from the campsite takeaway... And trying to speak French and being surprised
when I remember more from my school days than our eldest knows now (apparently that is so not cool)... But most importantly two weeks of not being at work, spending time with my children and totally relaxing is my favourite, especially as the little monsters
cant get on the Internet when we are abroad!!0 -
Exploring new places, new cultures, struggling to speak a different language, eating out/eating in, slower pace of life, sitting in pavement cafes and watching the world go by, fewer traffic jams to sit in, even enjoying supermarche shopping and not watching
TV! The list is endless.Biggest problem at the moment is where to go this year....
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We love waking up and eating breakfast outside in the sunshine, bird-watching, canoeing or just 'messing about in the river', wandering around towns and villages shopping at the local shops or markets, a bit of sight-seeing at whatever happens to be worth
seeing in the area, and occasionally just sitting and 'doing nothing! I also love cooking outside in the sunshine!0 -
Meeting new people as we host Caravan Club Tours. They are great craic as they say in Norn Iron and we go to lovely places, eat some great food, have a tipple or two and we love it. We feel priviledged to be allowed to do this and we look forward to meeting
another new group in the Loire in June. Enjoy your holidays wherever they take you.0 -
Get up. Go to bakery. Buy croissants. Brew coffee. Hve breakfast in sunshine. Read book. Stroll in to market. Buy cheese and bread. Retun to site. Have lunch. Drink wine. Snooze. Read book. Go for swim. Head out for a bit oflight sightseeing. If in Camargue goto a Course Camarguaise. Consider options for dinner. HAve diner. Drink more wine. Read book. Bed.
Goodness me - we could be brothers but I would add - enjoy a chat with whoever is of like mind, irrespective of nationality and language - amble down to the beach - remember when the wife looked as good in a bikini as the young things playing beach volley ball - offer cold beer and/or glass of chilled red to new arrivals - complain about the heat - replenish the ant powder around the groundsheet - complain about the heat - tell anyone that will listen how much hotter it was thirty years ago and today's temperatures are nothing - complain about the heat - sit outside without a shirt at 0200hrs chatting and discussing the merits of various 3euro bottles of wine - putting on socks and calling it getting "dressed up".
All on the Costa Brava
Ome "n" Dri
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