suavecarve
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Its Throunal time, A thread and a Journal. I write a sort of blog, load it up with photos, write a few words which may or may not assist somebody in the future when planning their holiday. Previous journals are in my signature of each post.
I, possibly because I have done a few, find them quite easy to do and they take the amount of time it takes the wife to cook a frozen paella from lidls and pour a chilled beer and they can be found from the map they create. Here is a link to the Continental version of the Journal map where you can see all previous continental tours entries https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/journals/categories/continental-tours.77/map
A completely different holiday for us, I am normally an unpaid up member of the FLT society and dont pay an awful lot for our holidays, as can be seen in other journals, but this time, with Austria being free aire challenging, we are going to 3 campsites within 100 km of each other.
Carinthia is Southern Austria, just over the Alps and bordering Slovenia and Italy. We have done a week through there previously and really liked it. We have tried doing this holiday previously but the weather over April to warm the lakes up didnt happen so we swapped.
This year, the temperature in the lakes is sufficient enough for us to swim in (or will be in a week or so) so our cunning plan is to go the campsite with a swimming pool first.
We have ummed and arred all week about the weather and even until yesterday afternoon we were going to Provence, which will wait til late August, but already planned but we are going for it.
We have 53 days away and I leave work late this afternoon and straight to ferry to Bergues overnight and it seems we wont get to Carinthia until Wednesday afternoon when it is raining and Thursday will be our first full day.
Our plan is to buy the Carinthia card https://www.kaerntencard.at/sommer/en/ for 72 pounds each. This gives us free entertainment for 5 weeks including all the panoramic roads, swimming pools, ferry cruises, cable cars and a lot of tourist attractions.
In order to get to these from the campsites (averaging 25 pounds a night) we are taking our little Suzuki Address 110 cc instead of the trusty E bikes and we cant find too many disused railway lines !.
We plan on taking a fortnight for getting there and getting back giving us the 35 days in Carinthia.
The motor is Rollerteam 685 with sufficient solar, lithium and LPG to keep us off grid for extended periods but full fat electricity will be had at the ACSI sites. We are over 3500 kgs
We will not be using the Vignette/Gobox system for Austria (see above for FLT badge holder) and will use the minor roads instead so it will cost me an hour and save me 100 euros. Irish Ferries is our cheapest option for channel hopping so that is our choice for later today. We are also armed with Graffiti stickers to be stuck on appropriate places (by a friend of course)
The map below is self created (I do like a map) of all the sites we can go to on the Carinthia Card and a couple of other interesting things located. There will also be a free Millstat card giving us further free adventures
I wouldnt have thought there will be another entry til we hit Germany somewhere around Sunday evening then I write up the Journal of the day, possibly including photos of an autobahn and the graffitied stellplatz (done by a friend of course) we stay at. Salzburg may be on the agenda for Tuesday.
Then I copy the link from the journal and put it into the Thread (this thing) and on here you can all advise me of the cheapest diesel, best beer, unmissable sights, traffic jams etc. but youre probably wisest to keep recommendations for nice and poor restaurants to yourself as that wont be happening, but if you do know of cheap and nasty kebab shop, we are your target audience. No guessing the cost of the meal because it will always be under 5 euros for the pair of us ! That then keeps the Journal free of chit chat. It doesnt mean you cant use the journal to comment as that has possibilities as well.
I, possibly because I have done a few, find them quite easy to do and they take the amount of time it takes the wife to cook a frozen paella from lidls and pour a chilled beer and they can be found from the map they create. Here is a link to the Continental version of the Journal map where you can see all previous continental tours entries https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/journals/categories/continental-tours.77/map
A completely different holiday for us, I am normally an unpaid up member of the FLT society and dont pay an awful lot for our holidays, as can be seen in other journals, but this time, with Austria being free aire challenging, we are going to 3 campsites within 100 km of each other.
Carinthia is Southern Austria, just over the Alps and bordering Slovenia and Italy. We have done a week through there previously and really liked it. We have tried doing this holiday previously but the weather over April to warm the lakes up didnt happen so we swapped.
This year, the temperature in the lakes is sufficient enough for us to swim in (or will be in a week or so) so our cunning plan is to go the campsite with a swimming pool first.
We have ummed and arred all week about the weather and even until yesterday afternoon we were going to Provence, which will wait til late August, but already planned but we are going for it.
We have 53 days away and I leave work late this afternoon and straight to ferry to Bergues overnight and it seems we wont get to Carinthia until Wednesday afternoon when it is raining and Thursday will be our first full day.
Our plan is to buy the Carinthia card https://www.kaerntencard.at/sommer/en/ for 72 pounds each. This gives us free entertainment for 5 weeks including all the panoramic roads, swimming pools, ferry cruises, cable cars and a lot of tourist attractions.
In order to get to these from the campsites (averaging 25 pounds a night) we are taking our little Suzuki Address 110 cc instead of the trusty E bikes and we cant find too many disused railway lines !.
We plan on taking a fortnight for getting there and getting back giving us the 35 days in Carinthia.
The motor is Rollerteam 685 with sufficient solar, lithium and LPG to keep us off grid for extended periods but full fat electricity will be had at the ACSI sites. We are over 3500 kgs
We will not be using the Vignette/Gobox system for Austria (see above for FLT badge holder) and will use the minor roads instead so it will cost me an hour and save me 100 euros. Irish Ferries is our cheapest option for channel hopping so that is our choice for later today. We are also armed with Graffiti stickers to be stuck on appropriate places (by a friend of course)
The map below is self created (I do like a map) of all the sites we can go to on the Carinthia Card and a couple of other interesting things located. There will also be a free Millstat card giving us further free adventures
I wouldnt have thought there will be another entry til we hit Germany somewhere around Sunday evening then I write up the Journal of the day, possibly including photos of an autobahn and the graffitied stellplatz (done by a friend of course) we stay at. Salzburg may be on the agenda for Tuesday.
Then I copy the link from the journal and put it into the Thread (this thing) and on here you can all advise me of the cheapest diesel, best beer, unmissable sights, traffic jams etc. but youre probably wisest to keep recommendations for nice and poor restaurants to yourself as that wont be happening, but if you do know of cheap and nasty kebab shop, we are your target audience. No guessing the cost of the meal because it will always be under 5 euros for the pair of us ! That then keeps the Journal free of chit chat. It doesnt mean you cant use the journal to comment as that has possibilities as well.
