How much do you plan ? (10 Viewers)

[Jewellbags]

We will be heading south through France maybe Germany and Italy in October - swmbo keeps talking about a route - but we’ve done that in the past . I have a rough route and want to find stop overs , campsites as we drift .

What level of planning do you do ?

 

[BikerGraham]

Virtually none. Go with the flo

 

[daveclare]

Second that. We book the tunnel and that's that. Even in August, we've never struggled to find somewhere.

 

[martxer]

We hired a motor home in March this year 1st time in a motor home. The only plan we had was to make it through France into Spain and back through Portugal. We had to bin off Portugal as we ran out of time.The only place on the bucket list so to speak was Valencia but the site we had in mind as it was on the tram or something was booked up, turned out the festival was on.
If their is something you really want to do then book it other than that you have your home on your back there is always a plan b.

 

[Carpmart]

I plan everything… I probably over plan! …even what colour pants to wear!

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[tribalbrit]

We will be heading south through France maybe Germany and Italy in October - swmbo keeps talking about a route - but we’ve done that in the past . I have a rough route and want to find stop overs , campsites as we drift .

What level of planning do you do ?

Book the ferry.

 

[WESTY66]

I need a Plan, how can you just wander around
I guess it’s just easier to wander if you don’t have time restraints

 

[garry55]

We always have a "loose" plan - which countries we are going to visit - and then go find them!

 

[bladerunner]

I enjoy the planning and usually book every night.

Actually enjoy a map/basecamp and 't'internet in winter months.

Comes from childhood memories of being driven into the night without a B&B available.

 

[BikerGraham]

I need a Plan, how can you just wander around
I guess it’s just easier to wander if you don’t have time restraints

Not really
It’s a state of mind. Chill and enjoy

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[Garfields]

I have a plan
See Germany September Wandering thread. Can't work out how to do link
We made the first stop as planned ended up staying a extra couple of days there and Luneburg along the way.
The rest has just evolved.
The last stop will be near Edam which was one of two options before ferry home.
One thing I have found this year is for September sites are still busy and a couple we thought we would stop at were full,
We started contacting the day before to confirm space which we have not bothered to do on previous September trips

 

[meanders]

Come off the tunnel onto the main road. Turn left, turn right or straight on???

To be fair we have fairly thoroughly done the Northern most 200 miles or so of France, so now tend to head to somewhere specific and work from there.

 

[Fulham Dave]

Sometimes it come down to size!

We have to plan as there are many sites, aires, roads and parking spots that we cannot access, so some planning / investigating is required

 

[daveclare]

I need a Plan, how can you just wander around
I guess it’s just easier to wander if you don’t have time restraints

We had 38 years of planning, policy, rules, regulations, laws and other restraining frustrating things in our work.

Now we have no time restraints. So we wander with one goal, to enjoy what time we have left.

But we HAVE to be home in October for a special person's 60th

 

[Puddleduck]

Plan, plan, over plan.

Day 2 rip up the plan.

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[lorger]

In the past when we’ve had time restraints we’ve as always picked an area, when we come off the ferry we check forecast for that area and if good we head there if not we just check other places. Now we have a wee bit more time we’re doing similar but a bit more relaxed.

 

[WillH]

No plan, meander, don't overthink it. Follow the wine, cheese, beer, whatever.

 

[swemmy666]

Yet to get a MH, it is still in the pipeline, however I do plan to meticulously plan

 

[meanders]

Yet to get a MH, it is still in the pipeline, however I do plan to meticulously plan

We did first trip to France and apart from the first night and the last three days at Disney, the rest of it just didn't happen. After that, we just took a more relaxed view. Not sure with health issues whether we will get to the continent again.

 

[Vikdikdok]

I plan everything… I probably over plan! …even what colour pants to wear!

Make it easier - go commando

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[cliffanger]

I Google interesting places to visit and loosely follow a route that way.

In Germany we followed the Romantic Road which was brilliant in parts, but interspersed with bits that weren’t so good.

This year in France we didn’t plan anything, but found some gorgeous fishing harbours and seaside stops in Normandy and Brittany.

Motorhoming is all about spontaneity.

 

[Lenny HB]

Planing & Motorhome are two words that should never be used together.

We are on a Ferry on Wednesday, not a clue where we are going.

 

[Ravelin]

My wife is a dedicated planner, but is gradually coming around to the idea of being flexible. So now we only have a rough plan, which she accepts can change, as long as we know where roughly we're going to stop a couple of nights ahead.

Frankly most of the most interesting places we've stopped at have been 'unplanned'. Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Germany being one. We were only looking for an overnight stop but ended up in a nice little campsite there for 3 or 4 nights a couple of summers back.

 

[JJ]

Man plans... God laughes.

JJ

 

[Minxy]

Hubby plans, plans and plans again! However if needs be we will change what we do, just as we did a few years ago when the Sahara sand hit eastern Spain along with cooler weather so we went to northern Spain & Portugal. Then in June we went to France intending to do a 1 month trip of the favourite places we'd been before (for a 2 month trip) which we enjoyed as we just wanted a relaxing break, but taking a fortnight going down and another coming back, but as the weather was going to be atrocious we hot-tailed it down to southern France and instead had a slow 3 week meander north.

Our planning and having a back-up isn't just limited to travel though ... hubby likes back-up kit too ... we have 2 tablets (we use as sat-navs), spare phones, you name it, he likes at least 2 of them!

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[gefsal]

We choose an area we would like to visit,wether we actually get there in another thing because we change our minds as we move about. That's the beauty of motorhoming.

 

[WESTY66]

We are on a Ferry on Wednesday, not a clue where we are going.

I could never ever do that, my brain simply wouldn’t let me, for me that would be impossible!!
After 20 yrs holidaying/touring on the Harley and HAVING to plan a place to put my head every night, it’s maybe something I can never change

Maybe I’m just not cut out for motorhoming

 

[Carpmart]

I could never ever do that, my brain simply wouldn’t let me, for me that would be impossible!!
After 20 yrs holidaying/touring on the Harley and HAVING to plan a place to put my head every night, it’s maybe something I can never change

Maybe I’m just not cut out for motorhoming

Of course you’re cut out for motorhoming. The world is, by definition, made up of different types of people. ‘Planners’ are statistically more successful, happier and more content with life!

(I made the last bit up to make you feel better! )

 

[Barchetta47]

Flexible is how I like to term it. These are our thoughts for our latest trip currently in progress.

Up until a few days before we left on 1st Sept we were going to the Balkans, then we didn’t! We converted it in to a wine festival trip to France and Spain. Then the weather turned and we drove straight past the Cheverny Wine Festival. Now booked up the 100 Anniversary Montlhery Festival for the way back, always wanted to go. Still attending the Rioja Harvest Festival in Logrono, whilst looking at festival site noticed we could attend a bull fight (controversial I know) so added that to schedule. May head south if weather deteriorates after Logrono. Checked on suavecarve voie vertes thread and now adding in a couple of rides in the Rioja region. Oh noticed we could book a reasonable priced lunch in the Frank Gehry designed hotel in Elciego, added to itinerary.

I’m now thinking of going to Barcelona if INEOS Britannia gets to the final!

Crikey hard work this planning not planning!!

 

[suavecarve]

I do shed loads of planning. I create maps with aires, voie vertes, beaux villages, dangerous roads, wild swimming, film locations and anything else interesting like alien portals. Night shifts can be long at work !

But we don't have a route when we get to our chosen area. We are currently at an aire having done our 2nd night and been on a voie verte we didn't know about to a beaux village that was marked up and we don't know where we are going today, if we go anywhere. Our decision making for today is based on Le Mistral and how to avoid it. We think lac de St Croix might be less windy but we ran from there last week because of the wind. When she wakes up I ll be allowed to decision make.

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