Daily mileage when touring

But then how many doing the 500 are UK registered doing the "must do trip"as has been posted about,  the not suitable roads for those that do

We have noticed as here and any site with good transport links and other facilties nearby then there are nearly as many motorized caravans as caravans ,but by far the different scenario where facilities and transport are not close by

i presume you swapped your large Bessacar for a small PVC for a reason..perhaps many?

...but ill guess one was that touring the UK in large MH takes much more thought/planning/care than the sort of impromptu stuff one can do in a 6m panel van, especially where road size dwindles...

like you, we have a fairly small van and i dont find it difficult to park, visit NT properties and pitch easily on site bit our pals have a near 8m coachbuilt thats also wider than our 'slim' van and the differences in driving (a bit of a beast), parking (no chance) and putting easily on the pitch (needs to be a big enough pitch) are quite marked.

but as DD says, MH parking provision is a different think in Europe and many manage comfortably in vans i wouldnt dream of trying to use here.

as ive said before, if I was confined to the UK, Id probably tour in a car/caravan or a PVC type unit....because its easier (IMHO).

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Lack of transport links does not really bother us JVB. Many of the sites we are using in NW Scotland, don't have any. It is not really needed if you are only stopping for a couple of days and are where you want to be.

Not a motorhomer myself but I think, as David says, the first couple of hops might be longer to get into an area. It also depends how much time is available and how long you really want to be behind the wheel. When I was working if I went up into Scotland it would usually be for 3 weeks and I would often make a first hop of 300 to 350 miles. Now that we are retired when we go into Scotland it is more likely to be for 6 or 7 weeks and the longest journey 150 miles. 

With a motorhome it would seem pointless to me, once in your area of interest to have large hops between sites. In England I find that there is plenty of interest within 30 miles of anywhere.  

agree with Steve, if you're able to call in to places on a whim, distances might be very short...

coming back from a 'destination site' in the Algarve we had plenty of time to explore and called in to half a dozen places in a 170 ml stretch from Lagos to El Rocío, sometimes only 20 ml or so..

so, our 'average' there would be very small....

yet, after we crossed the channel to Cherbourg we covered 1500 km to our resort with 2 stops....

horses for courses...

BB, the large Bessacarr with which we towed a car on a trailer was swapped many years ago. Not because of size as we had the car to get around in but because both the hab unit and the base vehicle (and the trailer) were total c**p. 

Our later AS was only 6.4m so not huge but we downsized to a PVC to gain a more robust and narrower body. 

I think it’s mindset rather than the LV which dictates how any of us tour. In the UK, those who choose to stay longer in one place, like JV, are better off with a caravan, or stonking great MH, while those of us who want to move around will select an appropriate LV for the way we want to tour. 

In my case as a caravanner the opposite is true, in the UK we have a destination whereas mainland Europe we tour taking in different countries and areas of interest, stopping on sites no longer than 4/5 days unless we come across somewhere exceptional.

Last year we took in 17 sites and 5 countries in our 11 weeks. 

Paul, what sort of van are you getting?

there have been a few different views on this thread, mostly related to ease (or not) of touring in MH in the UK.

There may some tips forthcoming from owners of like/similar sized/styled vans perhaps also related to 'useful kit' etc...

good luck.

 

Same here, Steve. As we move on frequently, alternative transport isn’t a requirement.

Are you using the Dunnet Bay site on your way to/from the NW? Last year we found MHs to account for approx 80% of the units on that site. Many were big but only a few were foreign registered vans.