France - Next Year

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Sorted, thank you 👍

1. Hi again 

Given the relatively low amperage available on French sites, I’ll obviously need to use gas at some point. I’ll obviously try to eak out my electricity usage, but am I being realistic thinking that 2 x 6kg bottles should suffice for a month?

Not all French sites have low ampage Freddy. Plus if you are going in summer then you won't need to heat the caravan.

We're off to Spain for March/April and for the first 4 weeks we'll only have 6 amps. The nights will be chilly but I'll only need my 6kg Propane and I always take a 3.5kg butane as backup whether I'm abroad or home. So you should be fine.

I always think that running out of gas is like running out of milk - I go and buy some more. 

Thanks WN. Although we don’t tend to use it, we do have a microwave. We also have a halogen oven that we use quite often, so depending on the amps available, we should be able to use that. Over here, a bottle might well last us a year or so. One thing I don’t want to do, is limit myself to sites with higher amperages. Anyway, it seems from what you say, I won’t have any problem 👍

Well yes, but I don’t want to be messing around with different connections and bottles, just good ol’ Calor.

We did use French gas and connectors for a few years because we got fed up with the cost of the electricity for the amount of amps you got. It worked quite well but we stopped going to France for a few years and the supplier stopped supplying the type of bottle so we gave up. It did work out quite a bit cheaper but can't be bothered now.

The Club advice is in the information section at the top of this page, "we advise all members to take a Campinggaz adaptor because that is available almost everywhere".  And of course it goes without saying to take an electricity adaptor too.. 

Yeah, bought myself an adapter and polarity checker yesterday 👍