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Peter42

Owner of an Autocruise Starspirit, I am a founder member of the Camping & Caravanning Club's Devon & Cornwall Motorcaravan Group. I have served on the committee in various guises over most of its 17 years, but am 'resting' at the moment. My wife (Jean) and I have travelled fairly extensively in our various motorhomes throughout Europe. but we still get a thrill when arriving outbound at a Continental Ferryport. We are shortly off to The Netherlands for a short pre-Christmas visit and then off to Spain and Portugal in the New Year. We wish all members, but particularly Camping & Caravanning Club members a good Christmas , a Happy New Year and an extremely good season of camping next year. Razz

carol

Peter,

Welcome to MHF, as one of the first members of MHF and also a member of the CCC but not the Devon Motorcaravan Group - (personally didn't even know there was one!) and yet I live in North Devon... so that hasn't obviously reached me yet... perhaps you would care to join this group and subscribe - to benefit yourself and all of us with obviously a fair amount of knowledge on your travels.

We spent one Christmas staying at Moncofa (I think its first Christmas Opening in 2003) which we thoroughly enjoyed and made some great friends, and when we got to our second campsite in Almerimar the CCC were really great at moving us after 4 days as it was horrible to say the least, and not what we had expected, it has since closed and I believe been built on.

Anyway, have a safe trip to The Netherlands, and onward after Christmas to Spain.

Where abouts in Devon do you live, and where are you due to stay in the New Year?

Carol

Peter42

Hi Carol.
I'm rather suprised that you haven't heard of the Devon & Cornwall Group, as we have an entry every month in 'Out & About', which is included with the monthly club magazine.Our last Meet of the season was at Stowford Meadows in Combe Martin. However, it was our last one for this year but if you open

carol

Peter maybe I misunderstood, I know there is a Devon and Cornwall branch, as we have stayed on their Brixham for one Holiday Site.... but you mentioned motorcaravan section I thought, that was what I hadn't heard of, a Devon Motorcaravan Section. Incidentally, I HATE motorcaravan, much prefer the motorhome.... but each person sees things differently

We met several people at Moncofa that year, and are still friends with them today and one of the couples are off on Tuesday and will be there again this Christmas and New Year....

They used to stay at La Manga but were very disenchanted with it, after one punch up at New Year I think it was in 2002, and they never went back... too big I think for me, we gave it a miss.

We stayed at Quateira and Albufeira in 2004 Jan/Feb.... if you come across Harry and Dorothy Mellor who always stayed at Albufiera in February for a month or so, they had the second Bessacar to be built and Harry was a keen motorcyclist, both in their late 70's now... please send them our best wishes - if he pauses and wonders who, remind him he loaned us £200 when our bed broke.... before we could get a new card, as it had been eaten by the machine.....!!!

Carol

elliot33 · Last edited by elliot33 on Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:59 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello,

elliot

whistlinggypsy · NW Rally Co-ordinator

elliot, welcome to MHFs and i hope you enjoy your van and the life style you have chosen. Hope we meet up at a rally sometime and maybe you can do a spot for the members.

Happy Christmas and New Year

Bob

wobby

You can see us on the left that was taken in the Alps on a lovely sunny day.
After taking the photo we read a sign beware of flash flooding, needless to say we were up the hill quicker than we went down.
We lived in Ireland on the edge of Lough Gill until 4 weeks ago now we live in Kent. Next March we are off in our new MH to travel the continent on and off for the next 5 years or more.

Statistics Retired, Age 60. Hobbies:- travelling, cycling, wine, good food.

Wobby & Co

Cordyline

Hi!

Just got round to subscribing as there's such a huge pool of knowledge and experience here and we need all the help we can get!

Simon and Lucy, 28 and 30, web developer and retail manager (now on career break - yay!)

We've recently bought a Mercedes Sprinter racehome conversion which will soon become our home for the next 8 months or so - hopefully longer. We're heading to the Alps for the snowboarding season first - nothing like a baptism of fire! That will happen when the house is finally let and the gas heating works in the van.

Thanks for the help we've received so far.

And Happy Christmas to all

monument

Hi this is my first post here. Just bought a used Hymer and finding this site useful, as an absolute beginner travelling on my own. Look forward to sharing my experiences. Don't plan to go too far this summer, but you never know...