Not much chance of France this summer

Costs?  Some people choose to spend £70,000 on their ideal car/caravan/Motorhome. We choose to spend a tenth of that but go out for lunch every day when we are holiday instead - and we never look for meals as "cheap as chips" 

The user and all related content has been Deleted User

Looking at the posts re costs and eating out has been quite saddening as it reminds me of what we are missing!

We would have been on our second overnight en route to Annecy today and my research of the area had included places to eat and cycle paths.

We eat out regularly and it is probably the most missed 'luxury' at the moment and visiting anywhere is for us pointless if we don't feel we will be able to enjoy this.

Our main holidays abroad are mostly with or MH buddies and the usual routine is we cook one day, they the next then we eat out. All flexible or course and we have gone a few days eating our main meal out all the time and vice versa.

As David says we have usually found the a set lunch may be at the, often quoted, bargain price but otherwise its UK level or higher but set menus do often offer reasonable value

We prepare nearly all our own meals too, not because of cost, but because we want to know what has gone into the ingredients.

The user and all related content has been Deleted User

When touring overthere we eat out 2/3 times a week, I wouldn't call it cheap and a regular meal works out about €36 for the two of us including a glass of something, and that glass of something is way overpriced. I will eat anything and don't even think of what has gone into the ingredients, but just enjoy that part of touring which includes eating out. Other days we usually settle outside for a simple salad with the ingredients bought locally, neither one of us likes cooking or have an interest in faffing about with a barbecue.

Wine is drunk most evenings and the cheap variety bought locally suits us fine, Cider is preferable but can be difficult to buy.

The French tourism minister says that 9 million French normally holiday abroad and he estimates at least half of those will holiday in France this year. He is advising brits wanting to come to get there bookings in. Well of course he would😂 Apparently all large chains / suppliers of accommodation / transport have agreed to be flexible in the event of future lockdowns. I wonder how many of the 4.5 million or so who will be stopping at home will be MH's / Caravaners / Campers. It won't affect us as we have decided to stay at home this year, but availability for ad hoc touring might be problematic.🤔

We rarely eat out when away in the van, nothing to do with cost I just prefer to eat in the early evening. I don't mind cooking when its nice weather and it can all be done outside.

The only country we have visited in Europe that we really enjoy the food is Germany, so when there we tend to eat out a few times a week but we do know where to look for the more traditional type meals not the stuff that is served to tourists 

Part of the fun for us is shopping in a foreign land! Great to see what the other half eats and follow the local fashion. 

Cooking outside is fun too and can make the occasional 'posh' meals all the more enjoyable.

The user and all related content has been Deleted User