Just one too many noughts, my friend.....I think“Do you try to make them grasp that 10 £7000 or 20 £3500 holidays per year over 10 years just doesn't compare?”
Hmmm
That’s £700,000 and £700,000 in 10 years.
I was at the top of the mountain in Switzerland. Staying on a stelplatz in Grimentz. £20 a night with unlimited electricity, water and discharge. That was after I turned down my customers offer of his chalet for £2,800 for a week.Strange how pictures remind one, I had taken a group on a January Ski trip to Val-d'isere and, while they were having lunch after a hard morning on the sloped, I decided that I would tackle a Black route without them.
Most of the slopes were devoid of people and I was by myself, surrounded by silence and mountains.
I stood at the top of this route, contemplating IF I should do it by myself when this strange feeling came over me.
Surrounded by all this mountain majesty, I felt about 6 INCHES tall!
All it would have taken was a chunk of rock, or avalanche, to breakaway from above me and I could have been lost forever.
Your picture reminds me of that experience.
Nature had gouged out that canyon and left it fascinating, could man I wonder?
come bobbing up out of the snow covered hillside. My daughter moaning because she thought I had fallen down some mountainside .
I thought you drove there. Much better than ****ing about in airports.
But one of the best reasons for going - I love French food.
That is part of the 'fun'. Two years downstream, I think I have now fixed most of the issues with our new Hymer.
How are you getting water?. In France all those water units are shut down to avoid frost damage. That was my experience anyway.
They left the water running
The last few rentals we’ve been in , those basics have been provided which was nice. I’m going to be cursing in May when we go to Scotland next when there’ll be nothing. It won’t be as bad as we can give it to our sons as both live there. They’ve only got 1 bed flats and we’re past squeezing in.
I have justified the expense of the van by pointing out that I can't resell a foreign holiday but I can resell the van if desperate.
I like your ideology
Well said. A joy to read.
to me that's like having bought a really expensive engagement ring, thinking it could be sold.
No issue with the post for me. You can gush to your hearts content. The van works for us to for the trips we have not been able to do when we had the boat. Happy we moved to the van, darn sight cheaper and adds a new dimension to some of our exploring. But for any breaks in the Far East or S. America etc, the van is redundant. The Van is not a hobby for us but a means to a holiday experience the same as a cruise or touring using hotels which we still do even though we have the Van. Cost doesn't define our holiday enjoyment!
We enjoy them occasionally in a different way to the van. Holidays have more than one dimension for us.
for now we are considering a cruise again. Did several before we vanned and enjoyed them. And like some not bovvered what other people think of our choice.
, especially as it was the first time for Basia of being pampered after her Communist upbringing.
We did the Hurtigrten Bergen to Kirkeness and back. Really enjoyed it, really interesting, goes where the big cruise ships can’t. Being a ferry it was always interesting at ports to see what was being loaded and unloaded. No dressing up for dinner, little organised entertainment, trips out if you wanted them. We wouldn’t want to go on a big cruise ship. Did look at River cruises but others have told us they get a bit upset if you don’t do their organised trips.I agree with the sentiments of the OP about the freedom of the MH when we go away and I have had my share of hotels from some not so good UK provincial ones care of BA for 5 years, to better international ones, over 8 years, including a round-the-world business trip of 5 weeks.
I thought that might be the end of hotels for me/us but in the last 6 years we have done short winter holidays in hotels twice: first was a skiing holiday in Andorra all-inclusive which was great but after a week we had had enough of hotel life; the second was 5 days at Christmas at The Phoenicia in Malta, which is at the top end of 5* and we really enjoyed it
We do now not rule out hotels outside our normal MH travelling times. Not tried cruises yet - only one I really fancied was with the Hurtigruten line's service up the Norwegian coast, but that would have been taking the MH with 2-3 day stopovers, so not a traditional cruise, but sadly that has been scotched since I found out they will not take MHs. Might turn to cruises if one of us had to be in a wheelchair.
You forgot to mention all the jolly wavers who blank you when pitched up
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