South GB or South UK

We recently saw a lot of Swiss MHs out and about in Dumfries and Galloway, so good to see that overseas visitors are returning👍

We've always worked on the basis that if we find a remote corner of a foreign country and park our caravan there then we are bound to find a Dutch couple already pitched up!

Quite a few sites, particularly in France are Dutch owned.

I've always thought that the point of international travel is to experience the differences, good and bad, that other countries have with our own.

If we bulldozed the castles and pulled up the hedgerows, it wouldn't be England (or Wales, or Scotland)

My advice is to buy an OS map, put on some walking boots, park in the 'P' and explore the vast network of Public Footpaths that this country has to offer

Hi KipK, Well done for attempting to put across, in another language , your thoughts on your visit!

I write this sitting on a site in Colchester just off the ferry from Hoak van Holland and as you say one if the advantages of a trip abroad, particularly to pan flat Holland, is the superb wide ranging views but, as said, that’s why we go abroad to enjoy these things.

Some of your compatriots clearly disagree with the difficulty of cycling as a couple, probably 70+M  that we saw cycle onboard when asked their plans said “ oh, a little each day…………to Lands End!

What the OP has not explained is this which by any measure is a very sweeping statement, "What we do want to say to your readers is that the campsites cannot meet the standard on the mainland and there is therefore a lot of work for the CAMC organization" Perhaps the OP doesn't like hardstandings which are rare in Europe? I imagine something has been lost in translation and he doesn't mean what he appears to mean? I say that as someone who has stayed on about 250 campsites in Europe, about  8 of those in the Netherlands. Whilst campsites in Europe are different the question of whether they are better is questionable in my experience but then it depends how the OP is making his judgement? We might all agree about the cost of sites here but it doesn't seem to put off our chums from the Netherlands and Germany coming here, saw quite a few in the West Country.

David