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Rob and Louise the english owners of Camping du Lac have some storage for MH's coming up and some other improvements including heating the pool for early and late season use.
This small informal camp is a nice distance from the town which is typical layout about a square.
The site is having improvements done and will have covered winter storage available.
www.camping-marciac.com
Tel +33[0]5 62 08 21 19
take a tour or give them a ring.
This is a loaded question!! There are many thread with advice about keeping your motorhome outside the UK/in France, dealing with the problems of MoT etc.
Each insurer will have their own rules - or make them up as they go along if they haven't been asked the question.
However, if you intend to leave he vehicle in France 365 days a year, reregistering your vehicle in France might be the best option unless you return to the UK at intervals for MoT. Tax can be renewed abroad, by post, providing someone send the disc on to you in France (disc sent only to UK address).
Insurance is not valid unless you have a valid MoT on a UK registered vehicle.
If you do several trips to France, you could leave the van in France between trips, and fly back, to avoid several channel crossing and mileage/tolls. Some storage facilities offer an airport delivery service, or taxi to airport service.
Enquired with my insuranc company about leaving motorhome abroad they said not insured unless I could find somebody living there and put them on my insurance
This thread sat lonely and unwanted for thirteen months and suddenly gets revived!
I had forgotten had I posted the comment which seemed to kill the thread stone dead, but it's as true today as it was then, and rather puts a bit of a dampener on the idea of leaving a UK registered motorhome in France like people do with caravans
reregistering your vehicle in France might be the best option
But to do this you need a French address and possibly a bank account too. And then you have to insure it in France. And we all know how labyrinthine insurance documents can be in English. Who amongst us has the linguistic skills to be able to claim that they fully understand an insurance policy in French ??
Any vehicle may be imported into France for 6 months without re-registering it, after 6 months it is supposed to be reregistered - which we are doing at present and it can be a complex process and costly (new headlamps cost about €300 and are obligatory.......)
The document from DRIRE (for reregistering) is about 15 pages long - all in French of course, then there are two visits to have the vehicle checked (our nearest DRIRE office is about 1 1/2 hours drive). The first visit they inspect and tell you what needs doing, the second is for them to check you have done it before they issue the carte grise for successful reregistering.
Then you have to have the insurance and you will be penalised if the steering wheel is still on the wrong side! (They note that on the MoT equivalent and if that is the cause of any accident then you are in a very sticky position......)
If the vehicle is over 3.5 tonnes life can be more complex still........
When we enquired with UK insurers it was a "3rd party liability only" response.........
Taking the vehicle for a day trip to Spain or another country theoretically means it could be said to have been out of France but would you want to rely on that........
So there are many things to be considered before such actions should be taken, check out everything and then a few more things, or as I was reminded frequently; "measure three times, cut once".
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