San sebastian
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Skip Spain and visit either Galicia or Euskadi.
Galicia is like Kerry . Rugged and wet with canny locals.
Estrella Galicia 
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Night out in Limerick tonight followed by a 7.30am flight to Lanzarote for a dart of winter sun.
Happy. Days.
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So I have been saving up my dole and my winnings from the racing thread and with a small top up from a local moneylender I think I’m gonna go on holidays in June
Anyone here ever been to France and stayed in one of the camping parks? Was recommended to me and I must say im a bit surprised that you can stay in chalets and the parks have waterslides etc.
Also look incredibly good value.
So what’s the catch?
How far south would you need to go in June for gteed weather?
What’s driving in France like? Other side of road doesn’t bother me but is it chaotic or same as here?
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Booked Queensland today guys
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Toll roads are very expensive, but worth it, obviously you get a far better quality of driver as France is a proper country compared to Oireland
We’ve done that and it was quite good but I’d give the English parks the big thumbs up here,
We went to a park in Benodet which is on the Brittany coast, lovely park and great facilities, not far from Quimper which is a beautiful small city. Good activities for the kids during the day but like I said it’s in the ha’penny place compared to the Haven parks in England. We’ve been to Perranporth in Cornwall and Weymouth in Devon (Dorset?)both brilliant parks, the activities that they lay on are outstanding, the kids wouldn’t want to leave the park but there’s so much to do in those areas that you’d be up the walls trying to get to everywhere.
Despite reputations we found the average standard of food to be as good if not better in the south of England than France as well and places tend to be more tolerant of kids in general.
Don’t worry about driving in France, you won’t give it a second thought after a few hours.
The French are prize cunts but I’m sure you know that, on our first day a grown woman shouted at my 2 year old daughter for accidentally knocking a sand castle (just an upturned bucket, nothing fancy) I was raging that I couldn’t even give her a piece of my mind with my leaving cert French. The bread and pastries almost make up for it.
Simply put, if a camp holiday is your thing, you might prefer England.
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England is Baltic mate. Are you mad?
during the summer, the south east has a Mediterranean climate, there’s no where like it
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Have you ever been down to Cornwall? Its been a little ambition of mine to go there for a few days.
Its the only place I haven’t been yet, its meant to be beautiful, the locals are meant to be weirdo’s though, cork style
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Very interesting. Had a look at the site there the campsites look very good. Kids are 4 and 2 so the shorter journey would be a bonus alright. Did ye get decent weather when there. I’d be sickened if it rained and that was half putting me off Brittany even, was thinking down the Vendee around La Rochelle or somewhere like that
We’ve been very lucky with the weather but the South coast of England gets great summers, nearly as good as Brittany I’d say.
I love driving in England and Wales, we stopped in Bristol for a couple of nights the last time, brilliant city for kids and adults alike.
Cornwall is one of my favourite places on earth, @Tassotti might have inadvertently copped on why. You’ll never eat fish and chips like it.
brittany has a terrible climte
you would be mad booking a holiday there as you arent guaranteed good weather
I only mentioned it as I have experience of it and said it earlier.
We all can’t like the same thing mate. I find small kids don’t enjoy the blazing sun and I spend far too much time putting cream on them.
The south coast of England gets great summer weather in my experience.
You would need to go to the Med to be guaranteed good weather. The entire north and west coast of France has an Atlantic climate. Like Tramore only warmer. I have driven as far south as the Loire which is as far as you can reasonably drive in one day off the ferry but rarely got 2 weeks uninterrupted sunshine.
It’s still very tolerable on a campsite if the weather is not 100% (and bear in mind that a mobile isn’t the best place in the world to be if the temperature is constantly in the 80s and 90s). But if you get a 3 or 4 day long deluge on a campsite (which I have) it can turn into a really long holiday.
In short to get guaranteed sun you need to fly drive or else be prepared to drive for two days solid.
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5 weddings abroad this year along with 10 days in New York and a week in Lanzarote in October
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