camping in Northern Ireland

Heather47
Heather47 Forum Participant Posts: 2
edited March 2015 in Your stories #1

We live, and holiday in Ireland, (live in the North) we have a campervan and usually get away for 2 -3 days every month, with a longer holiday in August,  our favourite place is Donegal!, some wonderful campsites and loads of places to stop overnight, without having to go into sites at all, In the past, when our children were small we camped with tents, though occasionally we went to a campsite, we normally just asked a friendly farmer if we could camp in his field.  Now 40 years on this is not so easy, farmers are wising up!  and also more and better campsite are springing up all over the place.

Also in Northern Ireland we have a wonderful arrangement called 'Touring in the Trees'  you have to be a native to get one of their passes, plus key, there are 11 forests in Northern Ireland with campsites, these are very basic, water and loo disposal,  and once you have paid for your key you can go to any of the sites whenever you want to right through the year!  some are more popular than others and you need to get to them early in the day, specially at week-ends!  There is no booking  - just turn up!  (6 nights in a forest park pay for the Key, going by cost of a non forest camp site).

This year we are hopeing to go over to England, travel to Stranraer, and down to Norfolk, and stay in our sons back yard! and back up to Scotland, we hope to take about 3 weeks, but need to think carefully about prices, and may have to leave all this until Easter next year, and save like mad until then!

We are open to any suggestions!

 

 

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  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited March 2015 #2

    Smile Touring in the Trees sounds really good! It would be great to hear more about camp sites in NI and in the south. Hope you manage to do your trip to the UK, try some CLs maybe if you want to avoid anything too expensive? Thanks for your story and pics I enjoyed them.

  • HelenandTrevor
    HelenandTrevor Forum Participant Posts: 3,221
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    edited March 2015 #3

    Thank you for your story Heather, Northern Ireland looks lovely and really like the idea of Touring in the Trees. Our son spent two weeks in Northern Ireland last year, with his girl friend who lives there, he really enjoyed itand said it's a wonderful place
    to visit.

  • brue
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    edited March 2015 #4

    Just realised I should have wished Heather well for the trip to England rather than UK. We had a lovely holiday in County Down with our van, hope to return one day.

  • dunelm
    dunelm Forum Participant Posts: 373
    edited July 2015 #5

    We had an enjoyable 2 weeks in Northern Ireland in May - we thought it was a great country with lovely people.  A letter about our trip is in the July edition of the Club magazine. There is also  post in the UK section of "Discussions"

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