Best Christmas Touring Memories (UK)

We haven't spent Christmas day in the van yet but hope to in the coming years. We have been away before and after Christmas but while Mum was still with us we have always spent Christmas day with her since our return to the UK. 

We spent many years in Germany, Christmas day the house was always filled with as many single soldiers as we could manage. Hated the thought of those who couldn't be with their families being in camp.

We have some great memories from those times, soldiers crawling round the floors playing with Lego or setting up the Scalextric in the hallway with our boys. Boxing day usually saw us in the mountains skiing.

This year will be spent with my sister, BIL and their daughter and her children. 

We have once spent Christmas day in an airplane flying back from Barbados, never again.

We have only twice spent Christmas apart in 50 years, not bad for a service family.

Merry Christmas all. 

Funniest memory I have is sending the chaps onto Castleton with the vans, then chum and I agreed to meet up after work to catch train from Sheffield to Hope. I got there nicely, but no sign of chum, train in danger of imminent departure, then in the distance, I could hear dee dah, dee dah, followed a couple of minutes later by chum running along platform, having hitched a ride on a “company” vehicle🤣🤣 We just made it, lads on hand at Hope to pick us up for a lovely pub meal in Castleton.
We had two tiny Airedale puppies with us that trip as well, carried everywhere in our coats. ❤️

Never been away in the 'van over Christmas of New Year - just not possible with other commitments, but I do remember spending an extra night at Poolsbrook Country Park CAMC site when we got snowed in - it was the year of the 'Beast from the East'... 🤣🤣

David

We've had a few Christmases away in the van, a number of years ago now. We've also visited some of the German and Dutch Christmas markets in December.  One Christmas I remember in the MH was at Hawes many years ago; on Christmas Day the wardens invited everyone for mince pies and sherry in the office; after that we went for a walk before cooking Christmas dinner and walked across some fields. Came across a poor sheep which had got it's head stuck trying to get through some wire fencing. The gaps in the fencing weren't that small, but it couldn't go forwards or backwards, so we tried to help it.  Eventually managed to get it through by manipulating the wire just big enough so we could pull it's head through, me holding the wire and OH pulling the sheep's head, and as soon as that happened it was off! Lucky sheep.  Funny, the things that stick in your mind.

Mince pies and sherry in the office - the Club certainly knows how to throw a party at Christmas. Excitement! 

We didn't get a van until we retired and then did some trips away all year round but not for Christmas itself. We used to meet up with friends for New Year, had a couple of very good New Years at Hillhead when there was a generous amount of food and a big party. Sadly our friends didn't enjoy a long retirement due to ill health but we have some happy memories of our get togethers....and some awful ones too but I will draw a veil over that. I suppose with all things you can expect the unexpected! 

Club sites may not know how but many of the Centres do. I have really enjoyed many a Christmas and New Year rally especially the latter.

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For many years I've spent Christmas in Devon, normally at Hillhead.  I intended to book for next Christmas but the deposit is well over a hundred quid so I'll leave it and maybe look for something different next year.  Also, I tried to book on my tablet and when I tried to enter my age it wouldn't allow me to type it in directly.  I have to click 792 times to get the right date.