So you have left that small quaint caravan park where you spent the night, but you can't just be driving all day, got to stop sometime!
Here are a couple of ideas which work rather well:
National Trust car parks are usually motorhome friendly, albeit at a price if you are not a member, some of them are truly superb like the one overlooking Gwithian sands in West Cornwall, others are part of a NT property you can also visit and many of them have a cafe/ restaurant where you can also get that lunch you don't have to prepare. So here is a link to the page where you can visualise them and even better download a map to print before you leave home:
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/local-to-you/south-west/things-to-see-and-do/cornwall/
Along the same lines many of Cornwall's great gardens also have substantial motorhome friendlyy carparks and here is a link to a page with a map:
http://www.greatgardensofcornwall.co.uk/map
At many of those there will also be a tea garden or restaurant.
Happy stopping!
Thursday, 7 March 2013
More on motorhome parking in Cornwall
Monday, 7 January 2013
Why don't we have Aires
Why don't we have Aires like the French? ( short for "aires de service" when there is limited free parking and access to water and drainage for a small fee .) ?
Is it because the French love Aires ? They love their Aires so much that even when there are lots of quiet motorhome niches available they still congregate as tightly as they can on an Aire .
Is it because we live in a country where public touristic infrastructure is grossly underfunded, and if any public money is going to be spent then Motorhomes are not a priority?
Is it because after all not so many motorhomes roam across English counties ( they are all in Portugal and France and....)?
Or is it that there are so many cute campsites in rural England ranging from the simplest to the 5 star holiday park that we don't need Aires.
Take Cornwall with 100's of campsites tucked away within a few miles of the local hotspots, offering a friendly welcome, good services, and a touch of conviviality. And you can open your door without hitting the neighbour.
The truth is at least in Cornwall we don't need Aires.
Is it because the French love Aires ? They love their Aires so much that even when there are lots of quiet motorhome niches available they still congregate as tightly as they can on an Aire .
Is it because we live in a country where public touristic infrastructure is grossly underfunded, and if any public money is going to be spent then Motorhomes are not a priority?
Is it because after all not so many motorhomes roam across English counties ( they are all in Portugal and France and....)?
Or is it that there are so many cute campsites in rural England ranging from the simplest to the 5 star holiday park that we don't need Aires.
Take Cornwall with 100's of campsites tucked away within a few miles of the local hotspots, offering a friendly welcome, good services, and a touch of conviviality. And you can open your door without hitting the neighbour.
The truth is at least in Cornwall we don't need Aires.
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