Vendome Municipal site

TerryRandall
TerryRandall Forum Participant Posts: 3
edited April 2017 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

HI there

 

We are intending staying in the site in the middle of Vendome,France, this July. However, we have been told that the site, has in recent years, been quite busy with the vans of itinerant workers and their families. Does anyone have any information about this?

Thanks in advance.

Terry

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  • DavidKlyne
    DavidKlyne Club Member Posts: 13,867 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 2017 #2

    Terry

    We stayed there in early October 2015. I was not particularly aware of the situation you mention. However most Municipal campsite from time to time have workers on site (so do some Club sites!) Whether you mean that or what we would refer to as travellers not during our visit. Some pictures of the site here 

    David

  • eurortraveller
    eurortraveller Club Member Posts: 6,830 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 2017 #3

    Terry, I think you will find that this campsite is no longer a municipal site but is now privately run . 

  • ValDa
    ValDa Forum Participant Posts: 3,004
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    edited April 2017 #4

    Many of the 'workers' mentioned may well be market traders and the days when people have noticed this may well be the night before the local market.  Market stall traders often stay overnight in and around towns with a local market, and are usually up and off early morning to set up their stall, before moving on somewhere else to spend the following night.

    We have friends who sell organic herbs, and in the summer months they combine market stall selling with staying overnight on campsites, as do several of their fellow stall holders.  So I suppose you might call them 'itinerant workers' but they will generally not be what we might think, and true 'travellers' are encouraged to stay at the 'Accueil de Gens de Voyage' sites instead.

  • meecee
    meecee Forum Participant Posts: 304
    edited April 2017 #5

    We were there a couple of years ago in September and the only group on the site were people staying for the Briarde dog show being held next door.  A pleasant site ideal for the town.

  • iansoady
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    edited April 2017 #6

    I always wonder why people get so excited about "itinerant workers". We have met many on our travels and they're just ordinary people like us.

    Once we had the pleasure of staying on a site next to a winemaker from the Bordeaux region who was attending a local market and gladly allowed us to sample his wares.

  • eurortraveller
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    edited April 2017 #7

    Agreed, Ian,  and we have stayed in company with real travelling gypsies several times. Their dogs once kept unwelcome nighttime visitors away in a Calais car park late at night, and the "his and her" Mercedes they had,  with Fendt caravans plus the additional, fully fitted mobile kitchen units they were towing, impressed us on the site at  Bourges. We felt to be the poor relations. 

  • rocoantrim
    rocoantrim Forum Participant Posts: 1
    edited April 2017 #8

    Have stayed at the site on 3 or 4 occasions and had not noticed any problem.  Pleasant site beside a municipal swimming pool and a nice, leisurely stroll into town. 

  • royandsharont
    royandsharont Forum Participant Posts: 735
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    edited April 2017 #9

    I second the above & if you are up for a fairly steep walk I recommend up to the old Abbey/Chateau sitting above the town. Good views and when we were there a fantastic, very large, photographs on display in the grounds as part of an artist's exhibition. Great views over the town too. Regards, Roy 

  • rogerwyn
    rogerwyn Forum Participant Posts: 63
    edited April 2017 #10

    Stayed there last September and found the site to be good with access to the town with plenty of resuants and bars, good for a few nights stay do your homework and their is plenty to do.

  • TerryRandall
    TerryRandall Forum Participant Posts: 3
    edited May 2017 #11

    Evening All

    Thanks for all of your replies. Even those which are having a stab in the dark as to the reason that I opened the discussion. We are intending staying in Vendome for about a week this summer. It was the very first site that we stayed at in France in our first visit there in !987. That was an overnight stop on our way to Rouillac near Cognac. The site there was free and funded by the local brandy magnate. Much has changed since then.

     

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