All year rounder or is it hibernation for you?

For us, winter is the time to enjoy our own area once the crowds have gone so, no, we don’t go away.

All year round for us Brue. We don’t go away just as much over the winter but like 10 days away in October then try and get in a couple of weekends a month throughout the winter we did spend the period between Christmas and new year over in Edinburgh a few times which was nice may do that again this year if possible. We do like away in winter sites and places of interest are generally quieter and cheaper. So long as the weather is ok for towing then we will go 

Brue, subject to ongoing covid and other regulations, we will continue to be 'away' from home as much as we have been...

12 weeks in Spain from mid Jan, 8 weeks in France (or italy or..).for late summer or early autumn and as much cruising or foreign hols as possible in between.

christmas with full family as ever, new year with pals (before Spain)  and a break or two in uk with gkids when possible.

time actually at home...not much. Even this year, once touring was opened up we have done stops in 12 counties.

whilst i agree some areas are nice in winter and its a relatively warm part of the uk where we live, we both hate the wind and rain we seem ti get plenty of here.

we like to follow the sun and different culture/lifestyles

All year if possible for us ,we are home today ,then off begining of October ,until mid Noveber then off mid Dec though new year ,then the cycle hopfully will continue ,as we are now booked until end of Sep 2022 with about a week at home every couple of months .thats the plan 

When we were both working and confined to school holidays, our touring year usually started at February half term and lasted through to November just after the October half term. Although the van then went into storeage we definitely didn't and used cottages. We've had some fabulous winter holidays in the lakes and Yorkshire, nothing like a bright frosty winter day in the UK! 

One of the reasons we finally decided to leave touring with the van in tow was that we started going further away overseas in February and October and, with our static available 11 months of the year we weren't using it enough to justify the cost of insurance, servicing and storeage.

Now, at least in normal times we are down here in Cornwall for 80 nights or so and combine that with cottage stays, 4 in each of the past couple of years - but who knows what's in store for 2022 - already 2 overseas trips and 1 cottage booked!

Hibernation is definitely not on our agenda!  

Brue

I think our jury is out on that at the moment. We have a week booked this month but when I have tentatively  looked at places to go in October and November they all seem booked up. In 2019 we went to Bladon Chains in December to visit the Palace which was nice. (no longer an option)  Previously we have been to Chatsworth in December. I don't know whether we are just getting old but I think all the upset of COVID has diminished our enthusiasm for all year round touring. Perhaps that enthusiasm will return, difficult to tell? 

David

If it was for something special, we would go anytime, but the latest we have been away was mid November, the earliest mid March.

Normally we go from late March to late October, so tending to hibernation!

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Bfeore all this we are all year really and have probably done every month down the years. Certainly November through March are on sites that are open and of course have HS. I like all seasons really but especially nice being toasty warm when it's freezing outside. 

Actually I've never been out in the snow but might happen now.

We are all year rounders, always have been. Done snow plenty of times Corners😁 We don’t tend to travel as far, but the A1 is a good travel corridor for us, so we sometimes head up North, done some good Xmas Craft Markets in Hexham, we spend a lot of time on North York Moors, Dales, and Ferry Meadows is a good Winter Site, some decent all weather cycling. We like to explore in the Winter, especially Churches and Abbeys. Bolton Abbey Club Site was one of our favourite destinations in Winter, but it shuts early now. We don’t like Bridlington, so that’s out, but have some good Winter bolt holes not far from home. We might book a cottage and go further afield. We have done Cornwall in February a few times. Weather forecasts are much better nowadays, and so long as you are well prepared, it can be great fun. OH’s birthday is in December, we had a great week up at the Fox and Rabbit CL a couple of Winters ago, pre Covid. Castleton used to be really nice, but it’s just too busy nowadays.