Lenny's Wandering around France again.

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CCP don't own any aires, they are owned and maintained by the municipality. CCP are a management company who install barriers and upgraded facilities, and take entrance fees at aires and municipal campsites where the municipality can no longer afford to run them alone, passing most of the fees on to the municipality.

It takes time for aires and campsites which have fallen into disrepair to be restored to respectability, particularly given the difficulties of the last few years. The alternative to CCP would be that the aire or municipal campsite would no longer exist. Is that your preference?

Good info. No need for last sentence though!

 

[missmollie]

Two here but not Funsters.
What is strange there is one Dutch van here first one we have seen on this trip normally there are everywhere same with Germans only seen one German van.

All the Germans are in Spain, every site or aire we have been on the past month is full of them.

 

[Lenny HB]

It takes time for aires and campsites which have fallen into disrepair to be restored to respectability, particularly given the difficulties of the last few years.

Well this one has gone downhill since being taken over by CCP.

 

[Lenny HB]

Wash day

 

[chaser]

Well this one has gone downhill since being taken over by CCP.

It's not just that though is it, they maybe ok now and as I have used them I can't really comment, but it's the future you have to look at, they are certainly not going to stop at a tenner, when they have a monopoly they are going to be no different than campsites.

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[chaser]

CCP don't own any aires, they are owned and maintained by the municipality. CCP are a management company who install barriers and upgraded facilities, and take entrance fees at aires and municipal campsites where the municipality can no longer afford to run them alone, passing most of the fees on to the municipality.

It takes time for aires and campsites which have fallen into disrepair to be restored to respectability, particularly given the difficulties of the last few years. The alternative to CCP would be that the aire or municipal campsite would no longer exist. Is that your preference?

Sorry Lenny HB I didn't mean to quote you, should have been reply to this one.

 

[Manic]

Two here but not Funsters.
What is strange there is one Dutch van here first one we have seen on this trip normally there are everywhere same with Germans only seen one German van.

Yes we noticed the same on our recent 3 1/2 week trip, the lack of Dutch and German van, saw more Belgium van.

 

[Lenny HB]

Yes we noticed the same on our recent 3 1/2 week trip, the lack of Dutch and German van, saw more Belgium van.

Seen 3 or 4 Belgium vans but not the normal number.
Maybe it's because we have got used to seeing so many Belgium/Dutch/German Vans in Spain also France is so expensive now compared to Spain.

 

[Shrimp]

Went to Les Eyzies-De-Tayac years ago, interesting place.

 

[Fdhadi]

Seen 3 or 4 Belgium vans but not the normal number.
Maybe it's because we have got used to seeing so many Belgium/Dutch/German Vans in Spain also France is so expensive now compared to Spain.

Germans might be having a so called “staycation”. Plenty of places in their own country to visit and might be cheaper (at the moment) than France.

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[Lenny HB]

Germans might be having a so called “staycation”. Plenty of places in their own country to visit and might be cheaper (at the moment) than France.

Fruit & veg prices frightening meat and other stuff not too bad. Eating out reasonable if you have a menu of the day or formula at lunch time. Problem is spoilt by Spain and Portugal.
Sill cheaper to holiday in France that the UK.

Also although we are only in the the Dordogne it was 27° today.

 

[Riverbankannie]

We have seen mostly French vans, but it is half term in many departments. Today at Oradour-sur-Glane and there was one lonely German van in the carpark in town - not on the aire.

 

[Lenny HB]

We have seen mostly French vans, but it is half term in many departments. Today at Oradour-sur-Glane and there was one lonely German van in the carpark in town - not on the aire.

Moving place.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Moving place.

Very much so and too many echos of current situation with Putin, things not going their way so take revenge on the population.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Just a reminder, Lenny, as you, like us, are travelling later through circumstances.
Next Tuesday November 1st is a National Holiday and shops restaurants and businesses closed.

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[Lenny HB]

Just a reminder, Lenny, as you, like us, are travelling later through circumstances.
Next Tuesday November 1st is a National Holiday and shops restaurants and businesses closed.

We will be in Holland then, ferry from Amsterdam on the 2nd.

 

[Lenny HB]

A few pics of Souillac it really has gone downhill most of the shops closed/boarded up.
And to really pee off the visitors, sat down at a restaurant as the menu of the day looked good, they kept ignoring us and serving the locals when they finally get to us they say menu of the day finished, wasted 25 minutes so we left.

 

[Lenny HB]

Found a cracking Aire for last night at Collonges-La-Rouge, its a municiple a bit pricy at €12 does include service and we got an EHU. The village is a tourist magnet.

 

[Lenny HB]

And after the fiasco in the restaurant last nights dinner was an Aldi lasagne.

 

[Imala615]

Two here but not Funsters.
What is strange there is one Dutch van here first one we have seen on this trip normally there are everywhere same with Germans only seen one German van.

Same on my trip earlier this year ,nearly all French vans then on the 17th stop which was the camping du Lac Kir in Dijon and i think all of Belgium was there , then a mix of vans after that, but i was then heading to the Mosel.

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[Lenny HB]

Our walk around the village.

 

[Riverbankannie]

We will be in Holland then, ferry from Amsterdam on the 2nd.

That’s a bit far from home isn’t it?

 

[Spriddler]

That’s a bit far from home isn’t it?

ISTR that he posted that he has to be in Newcastle on 3rd.

 

[Lenny HB]

That’s a bit far from home isn’t it?

Got to be in Barrow in Furhess on the 4 th so ferry to Newcastle, anything is better than driving up the M6.

 

[Wanders from Glos]

better

True enough, by coincidence we will be in Barrow visiting relatives on the 4th then a few days in the lakes. Not expecting Dordogne temperatures unfortunately

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[Riverbankannie]

We have gone a bit north but it’s got hotter! I know you would like it. 31° inside at present with all windows open but will have to close up side ones soon when we go to sleep. French getting ready for long bank holiday weekend here at Chateauroux, not our thing so looking for a quiet spot tomorrow.

 

[Lenny HB]

True enough, by coincidence we will be in Barrow visiting relatives on the 4th then a few days in the lakes. Not expecting Dordogne temperatures unfortunately

Chilly here tonight nearly 9pm it's down to 23°.

 

[Wanders from Glos]

Chilly here tonight nearly 9pm it's down to 23°. View attachment 681993

 

[Wanders from Glos]

Poor you, do let us know if you make through the night.

 

[Lenny HB]

Now at Lac du Crusse another nice stop, normally €4.50 but out of season so the barrier is up.
One for Northernraider behind us.

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