Hi
We’ve been to France twice the Lorre valley and La Rochelle on the Atlantic coast. Can’t remember the campsite names in France didn’t make too much of an impression on me and Spain twice cambrills park Val A is right this is a brill site nr salou and el delfin verde nr torreolla de momtgri.
We found Spain more enjoyable and the sites better but that could be luck. The eating out in France I found a bit disappointing I remember going out one evening in the Lorre about 7pm and struggling to find somewhere to eat we ended up back at the camp having chicken from the take away. Some beautiful chateaus and scenery though. Saying all that we are giving France another go this year and going to the ardeche. Might ask Val A to come with us she seems to know everything about France and is a mine of information. I’ve taken quite a few notes from her posts on here so hopefully we will get the holiday we won’t this time.
Richard W
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It is France for us because our summer holiday is 14 days long and so we can be on holiday within a day. Would love to go to further but don't want to spend 4 days out of my 14 travelling. If I had longer I would go further.
You can't compare your experiences in a hotel with caravanning or camping. I've never seen bed bugs in my tent...but I have listened to the birds waking up in the morning, seen ducks walk past my tent, had the best chilled beers ever outside my tent (just don't get that atmosphere in a hotel bar), had the most delicious steaks ever on my BBQ in the South of France watching the sunset......seen the smile on my child's dirty face streaked with sun cream and ice cream as he introduces me to his new Dutch friend knowing that he is having the best time ever....just doesn't compare to sitting in a hotel room, bar or restaurant.
That's why I camp in France (or sometimes Italy or even Spain).
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You can't compare your experiences in a hotel with caravanning or camping. I've never seen bed bugs in my tent...but I have listened to the birds waking up in the morning, seen ducks walk past my tent, had the best chilled beers ever outside my tent (just don't get that atmosphere in a hotel bar), had the most delicious steaks ever on my BBQ in the South of France watching the sunset......seen the smile on my child's dirty face streaked with sun cream and ice cream as he introduces me to his new Dutch friend knowing that he is having the best time ever....just doesn't compare to sitting in a hotel room, bar or restaurant.
That's why I camp in France (or sometimes Italy or even Spain).
I'd agree - and would add listened to the flamingoes honking overhead as they make their way back to a lagooon at sunset, watching the fireflies dancing overhead in the darkness whilst looking out over a lake, getting up in the middle of the night to a spectacular moon, and frozen 'mist' rising up from the ground in the moonlight, watching the zillions of stars overhead as you sit with a glass of wine on a warm summer night, watching your child as he realises that the moon gives enough light to find your way to the toilet block in the middle of the night, as well as seeing your children laugh as they exchange 'dirty' names for body parts in any number of languages. All these we've done over the past thirty years of camping in France - and now my sons aged thirty and twenty-four both camp in France, so we must have been doing something right for all those years!
Ahh, you old softies, you . You're completely right of course ... and where camping in France is concerned I'm a big softy myself - there's just something special about it. With it's abundance of nature and the great weather (usually!) the country is so right for it. The campsites are almost all really friendly, welcoming, well run places, usually located in much better spots than the hotels. We've rented holiday homes over there, stayed in apartments and hotels, and done loads of camping as well, and as far as I'm concerned there's no contest - France is best enjoyed from a campsite. Being serenaded late at night by a nightingale tops the sound of next doors TV every time. When I need to pop to the toilet block late at night I can't help spending 10 minutes just soaking up a proper night's sky, so rare these days. Even the simple things like coming back from the boulangerie in the morning with a bag of goodies and a baguette under my arm, strolling through the campsite sharing with my fellow campers my terrible yet suprisingly various language skills always puts a smile on my face. The freedom camping in France gives you is unbeatable as well: so long as it's not the peak, peak season you'll have no problem just rocking up to pretty much any campsite in any part of the country and having your choice of pitches. So there's no need to stick to any schedule or book hotels in advance - you can just go where the mood takes you without having to plan everything. And obviously there's the big bonus that it's usually much, much cheaper than staying hotels. That puts a smile on my face too .
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Topic: Anywhere other than France?
. You're completely right of course ... and where camping in France is concerned I'm a big softy myself - there's just something special about it. With it's abundance of nature and the great weather (usually!) the country is so right for it. The campsites are almost all really friendly, welcoming, well run places, usually located in much better spots than the hotels. We've rented holiday homes over there, stayed in apartments and hotels, and done loads of camping as well, and as far as I'm concerned there's no contest - France is best enjoyed from a campsite. Being serenaded late at night by a nightingale tops the sound of next doors TV every time. When I need to pop to the toilet block late at night I can't help spending 10 minutes just soaking up a proper night's sky, so rare these days. Even the simple things like coming back from the boulangerie in the morning with a bag of goodies and a baguette under my arm, strolling through the campsite sharing with my fellow campers my terrible yet suprisingly various language skills always puts a smile on my face. The freedom camping in France gives you is unbeatable as well: so long as it's not the peak, peak season you'll have no problem just rocking up to pretty much any campsite in any part of the country and having your choice of pitches. So there's no need to stick to any schedule or book hotels in advance - you can just go where the mood takes you without having to plan everything. And obviously there's the big bonus that it's usually much, much cheaper than staying hotels. That puts a smile on my face too 
