Where are all the UK vans

[TM59]

Travelled down through France across Spain and into northern Portugal over the last couple of weeks. Have seen very few uk motorhomes. Has brexit already happened?

 

[The general]

Wish it was !

 

[LesW]

We make a point of never going abroad in the moho in August.

 

[2657]

We make a point of never going abroad in the moho in August.

As do many of us, peak time for UK vans is a slow build up to Christmas, very busy Jan, Feb and then the exodus starts towards the end of March

 

[jollyrodger]

Seen 1 other brit in Spain and it turns out lives very close to me.
Last night a nice couple from N.I.
And today a brit van with a kernow sticker in the window
Oh and an autotrail that overtook me driven like it was nicked .Or they were taking it back

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[Macca1954]

Travelled down through France across Spain and into northern Portugal over the last couple of weeks. Have seen very few uk motorhomes. Has brexit already happened?

Twerly ? too early

 

[bobandjanie]

We have been in Portugal since the beginning of June, seen half a dozen UK motorhomes, ? we don't get spotted ours is Spanish. Bob.

 

[Nirvanauk]

Never go to France in August..It is hell.

 

[jumartoo]

We're in Denmark and have been in Sweden and only seen a couple of Brit registered vans in about 7 weeks.

 

[vwalan]

lots of uk reg vans here in cornwall.
nice warm weather and lots of nice places to visit ,plus lovely scenery.
mind the roads are very busy.
ok on the narrow back roads .
lots of foreign motor homes as well.
looks like its going to be a good year for the local shops etc .

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[busby]

Kids back to school then my van comes out.On ferry 12 th Sept until just before xmas???BUSBY.

 

[moulin 87]

Never go to France in August..It is hell.

It might be hot, dry, sunny etc but not hell. I suppose it might be if
you landed in a campsite full of Brits and their kids

 

[Reallyretired]

We are going on Saturday 31st. Hopefully the kids won't be too much in evidence, but we are not planning on staying on any sites on our way down to Spain, which will take us around a week.

 

[2x2camper]

Been in Denmark Germany and are in The Netherlands at the moment. Seen very few British motorhomes over the past two weeks.

 

[TM59]

I know the snowbirds like to hit the road later in the year but surely there are lots of owners of uk vans who are not snowbirds. Where are they?

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[Driventemple]

As a retired teacher, the idea of going anywhere in August fills me with dread. Departing Poole September 10th. I live about 6 miles from Lyme Regis and have only been there once since beginning of July!

 

[jumartoo]

Been in Denmark Germany and are in The Netherlands at the moment. Seen very few British motorhomes over the past two weeks.

You might have seen us, but ours is Spanish registered

 

[The general]

As a retired teacher, the idea of going anywhere in August fills me with dread. Departing Poole September 10th. I live about 6 miles from Lyme Regis and have only been there once since beginning of July!

Lyme you can keep that during the summer same as Cornwall , I will be down there later on in yr around Dec !!!!

 

[Camping Gaza]

It's August.

 

[MR. FUSION]

When we did our tour of Europe in 2016 we saw very few Brit Van's out of the popular tourist hot spots. We came to the conclusion very few Brit motorhomers are that adventurous with their Van's

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[WESTY66]

Ours will be in Austria a week tomorrow, for a week then winding back up by RodT and Delft, leaving on the Friday night ferry, Harwich???

 

[The general]

When we did our tour of Europe in 2016 we saw very few Brit Van's out of the popular tourist hot spots. We came to the conclusion very few Brit motorhomers are that adventurous with their Van's

Correct

 

[busby]

When we did our tour of Europe in 2016 we saw very few Brit Van's out of the popular tourist hot spots. We came to the conclusion very few Brit motorhomers are that adventurous with their Van's

Go in the winter..BUSBY.

 

[Barclaybasher]

Simply there are so few British MHs compared with those in Europe.....and they use them more...

 

[MR. FUSION]

Go in the winter..BUSBY.

It was the winter, we started in January and followed spring north to the top of Norway from the bottom of Spain !

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[Hymie]

Kids back to school then my van comes out.On ferry 12 th Sept until just before xmas???BUSBY.

Same for us, Canterbury P&R 4 Sept, sailing on the 5th, back some time in December, home with the family for Xmas then away from March to June & back for school hols with GK's.

Hymie.

 

[Macca1954]

On our way next Tuesday. Can’t wait

 

[Red Dragon]

We have just recently returned from our Scandinavian trip of over a month and saw only one Brit van, that was in Oslo, nothing at all in the Northern States of Europe, so much they are missing.

 

[Reallyretired]

Although we have never seen loads of British motorhomes, I subjectively feel that there have been less in recent years.
Always a few at cite europe of course.
We avoid cities, and usually avoid the coast. We live on the coast so not much of a novelty, what we like are mountains and ideally being away from other people. The latter being mainly me as I am very unsociable. Swmbo isn't so I leave any socialising to her.

 

[Parrot Face]

Maybe the state of the pound against the euro could be an influencing factor.

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