Dunkirque to Interlaken
Travelling mid Aug.Dunkirque to interlaken.Aim to stop somewhere in the region near Nancy for one night en route.Does anyone have any suggestions? (I am using Michelin route planner,option 2 and would expect to cover 300/350 miles in the first day) Any suggestions
would be most welcome ! two units...1 motorhome and one caravan and chaufer for the holiday!
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The former municipal site at Nancy itself.
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When we did that journey in 2014 we stayed at Les Breuilles in Verdun. Restaurant, Bar, shop and swimming pool on site. Easy walk in to the historic town as in 'Battle of Verdun'. Happy ro accept one nighters pitches always kept available it seems.
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Thank you both for your replies.I have decided that,despite negative reveiws,I will go for camping le brabois.It is,after all, only for one night!
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Thank you both for your replies.I have decided that,despite negative reveiws,I will go for camping le brabois.It is,after all, only for one night!
Not sure what the negative reviews said but we thought it a pretty nice campsite except the weather we experienced and that is hardly the fault of the campsite! My site review is
here, with pictures. Perhaps you won't have time but Nancy is well worth a visit.David
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Will do Brian 1. Thank you David Klyne...probably get a couple of hours in Nancy as we should arrive 2 to 3 pm
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Travelling mid Aug.Dunkirque to interlaken.Aim to stop somewhere in the region near Nancy for one night en route.Does anyone have any suggestions? (I am using Michelin route planner,option 2 and would expect to cover 300/350 miles in the first day) Any suggestions
would be most welcome ! two units...1 motorhome and one caravan and chaufer for the holidayTravelling mid Aug.Dunkirque to interlaken.Aim to stop somewhere in the region near Nancy for one night en route.Does anyone have any suggestions? (I am using Michelin route planner,option 2 and would expect to cover 300/350 miles in the first day) Any suggestions
would be most welcome ! two units...1 motorhome and one caravan and chaufer for the holiday!Slightly off topic but we went to Interlaken 2 yrs ago having last been there 23 yrs earlier and really enjoyed it although the weather could have been better but anyway enjoy.
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Top tip from someone who has been camping in Interlaken since the 1970's.
Don't try to sit out a spell of rainy weather, it can last for a very long time here. Get yourself through the Gottard tunnel and it's a different climate system.
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Reply to all.........Last visited Interlaken in 1981....We remember horses wearing leather coats as protection against the hail stones and rain coming into the (new) caravan through a ceiling lamp unit!Also photos showing us in anoracks and gloves!!!!!!Another
David...We have travelled together for the last 20 odd years...I am used to a younger driver who gave up towing a caravan because of various near misses due to speeding!!!!!I am the lead outfit aaaaad tend to stick to speed limits!I used to tow
550 to 600 miles on the continent in one day,,now reckon that 300 to 350 miles a day is easily acheivable (even in England!) We will stay overnight at Dunkirque port and set off at 8 am.If I could only acheive 200 miles in a day theN I would think about giving
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Thank you both for your replies.I have decided that,despite negative reveiws,I will go for camping le brabois.It is,after all, only for one night!
Not sure what the negative reviews said but we thought it a pretty nice campsite except the weather we experienced and that is hardly the fault of the campsite! My site review is
here, with pictures. Perhaps you won't have time but Nancy is well worth a visit.David
We have twice stayed at Le Brabois, in 2009, when we had lovely weather, and this year in June when it was wet like you found on your trip.
Like you, we found it a reasonable site, and Nancy is an interesting city.
Both times we had our T/A van and were using ACSI card, they charged only the regular price, but we have come across the T/A extra charge problem on a few occasions.
In this year's ACSI book it does say under their listing that they accept T/As.
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Regarding distances per day.....
We prefer to make the journey part of the holiday by taking our time and visiting places en route, so 200 miles or even a bit less is quite common for us. It is a holiday after all, not an endurance test.
If we have to be somewhere and time is short, we have done 350-400 miles on good motorways, with several stops, in a day, but it was pretty tiring. I certainly would not attempt over 350 in UK.
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Reply to all.........Last visited Interlaken in 1981....We remember horses wearing leather coats as protection against the hail stones and rain coming into the (new) caravan through a ceiling lamp unit!Also photos showing us in anoracks and gloves!!!!!!Another David...We have travelled together for the last 20 odd years...I am used to a younger driver who gave up towing a caravan because of various near misses due to speeding!!!!!I am the lead outfit aaaaad tend to stick to speed limits!I used to tow 550 to 600 miles on the continent in one day,,now reckon that 300 to 350 miles a day is easily acheivable (even in England!) We will stay overnight at Dunkirque port and set off at 8 am.If I could only acheive 200 miles in a day theN I would think about giving up!!
I am rather surprised and disappointed to get a reply like that in this section but if you see daily mileage as a virility symbol get on with it.
Miles per day has nothing to do with virility!It has more to do with getting on with the job!If one has a set holiday period of say 2 weeks then spending 4 days getting to your destination and 4 days getting back over half of the holiday (which is designed to explore an area) is wasted.(in my opinion!)As previously stated...I used,when younger and with less traffic to cover 4/500 miles in a day.Done Costa Brava in less than 24 hrs.including delayed ferry and a number of stops!These days with the amount of traffic and advanced years 3/350 miles is enough and I get time to enjoy a stop over!!
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As promised...feedback....Le Brabois.....very good for overnight halt although put at back amongst trees.....facilities slightly tired but overall satisfactory.Interlaken....eye wateringly expensive and over run with arabs and japanese! Site ...Lazy Rancho
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I stayed at camping jungfrau back in the early 1980,s and it is still there,nearer to town than Lazy Rancho,but looked quite busy!I did not find Lazy Rancho particularily busy/noisy and the service pitches were really good with a good view of the mountain!
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At Camping Jungfrau it's still the same old boy that greets you from all those years ago. First met him in 1977.
How old must he be? He was not a young man back then! I was there in 1981 and you are right,he was not young then...Just shows that Switzerland is not just a place to go to die!!!!!!
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Interlaken is our favourite destination too. We don't find the town itself particularly special, but as a centre for getting into the mountains, it is brilliant. Over the years, we've used 4 sites there: Lazy Rancho, Manor Farm, Jungfrau and Seeblick in
Bönigen. Of these, Lazy Rancho is our favourite, though Seeblick does have the advantage of a later evening bus service - the year we stayed there it also had the advantage of accepting Camping Cheques - sadly no longer.We agree that costs can be eye-watering, we try to keep these under control by buying Regional Passes which, while not cheap, can be budgeted for in advance and we can usually reckon to get travel worth well over double their cost over 10 days.
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