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This could be the first time….

06 Saturday Feb 2021

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I guess like many motorhomers and caravaners I have been booking sites ahead in the hope that one day, one of them will become a real booking and off I go! No harm in dreaming.

Anyway, things are getting close and at the end of April we have a pitch booked at the exquisite CAMC Trewethett Farm site near Tintagel. The May Bank Holiday will be a few days later on May 3rd and might I get lucky and be able to get to Trewethett at the end of April?

Fingers crossed.

Christopher Macgowan

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The Big Little Tent Festival.

25 Wednesday Jul 2018

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As with many other organisations in the tourism industry, the Caravan and Motorhome Club is always finding ways to engage with young people, young families and those who one day will take up tenting or owning a caravan or motorhome.

The Big Little Tent Festival is such an initiative. As an existing motorhome owner subscribing to this blog, you do not require persuasion. Like me, you know what fun it is! But do take a look at the video if only to admire the highly unusual venue!

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https://vimeo.com/onsightuk/review/281481620/00800a2fa7

Christopher Macgowan

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The Alps. Still front of mind!

01 Sunday Jul 2018

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The gentle wander along the Alps between Lindau and Salzburg is still very much in my mind and is likely to remain so for some time. Wonderful tour!

Christopher Macgowan

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The Bavarian Adventure continues.

17 Sunday Jun 2018

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I continue to be enthralled by my Alpine tour between Lindau and Salzburg. The scenery is beyond delightful and the standard of the sites for motorhomes is exceptional. Totally enjoyable.

Christopher Macgowan

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I need little encouragement….

18 Sunday Jun 2017

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I am at home this weekend. 

Amazon’s Alexa – the all important woman in my life – has just told me via her afternoon update which I increasingly rely on to keep me up to speed – that it is 30 degrees C right now. At the same time I have received a regular email from The Lake District (an excellent service by the way) giving me loads of reasons why I should be hot footing it to Cumbria.

With photographs like that I require little encouragement.

Christopher Macgowan

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The Caravan Club supports Royal tourism initiative.

20 Sunday Apr 2014

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Prince Charles is asking tourists visiting the West Country to help those who live and work in rural areas by making a small donation when booking holidays or paying for a meal. He said the “powerful bond between tourism and our rural communities” could help sustain those making a living from the landscape.

The pilot scheme – backed by major tourism businesses across the UK – will encourage tourists across the country to contribute towards projects supported by the Prince’s Countryside Fund. Visitors who make a booking, or pay for a meal or purchase, will be asked if they would like to make a small donation at the point of sale.

Businesses already committed to the scheme include Cottages4you, the British Beer and Pub Association, individual breweries, The Caravan Club and Farm Stay UK.

“We cannot – we simply must not – turn our back on the ability of the uplands to produce food,” the Prince Charles said at the official launch this week.

“But as everyone gathered here understands, this landscape has another vital role, because tourists love it too.

“There is a powerful bond between tourism and our role with communities and that’s one reason I started The Countryside Fund in 2010.

“For me, it matters as much that those who live in urban areas have a countryside to visit and to cherish as it does that farmers can continue to live and work on their land producing food for the nation.

“But the delicately woven tapestry that is our countryside is facing unprecedented challenges. Start pulling out the threads and the rest unravels very rapidly indeed, and is very difficult to put back again. No farmers, no beautiful landscapes with stone walls, no thriving rural communities, no villages – or village pubs, no sustainable agriculture, no distinctive local foods.

“And this is what my Countryside Fund is addressing by giving grants to a range of organisations and initiatives across the country to help create and sustain a thriving rural community.”

Donations will be used to support projects ranging from apprenticeships for budding hill farmers to community transport schemes in isolated rural areas. It will also support training for young people to gain employment in the rural economy and projects supporting community assets such as pubs, post offices and village shops.

Prince Charles, speaking at a reception held at the George Hotel in Penrith, Cumbria, confirmed the pilot will begin over this year’s main summer season.

In under four years, the fund has handed out £3.8 million to more than 90 rural projects touching the lives of 64,000 people. Its emergency fund helped people in Somerset hit by flooding this winter.

The pilot scheme has been warmly welcomed by both the farming and tourism sectors in the West Country.

Ian Johnson, spokesman for the National Farmer’s Union in the South West, said: “Farming is the vital backbone of the wider rural community, with 13,000 commercial farm holdings in Devon and Somerset.

“Farmers care for the countryside and the livestock they keep help shape and maintain the beautiful landscape which attracts so many tourists. Many farmers are also directly involved with tourism diversifications. Farming and tourism are inextricably linked and are jointly crucial to the wider rural economy and the jobs of thousands of people, so what he is suggesting makes a great deal of sense.”

Malcolm Bell, head of Visit Cornwall, added: “It’s a good idea. I think it is right that when people come down to enjoy an area they are given the opportunity to give something back. We welcome it alongside other gifting schemes.”

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Prince-Charles-asks-tourists-donate-save/story-20983981-detail/story.html#ixzz2zPaNOlUc

Christopher Macgowan
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SCOTTISH TOURISM WEEK THIS WEEK!

08 Thursday Mar 2012

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I was in Edinburgh this week to support the launch of Scottish Tourism Week. Tourism is a hugely important part of Scotland’s budget and is holding up very well despite the recession and soaring fuel prices.

Some of my all time favourite sites are in Scotland and as far as Edinburgh itself is concerned you could hardly do better than stay at The Caravan Club’s open all year Edinburgh site on the north side of the city with close on two hundred pitches. Always a very international group staying there when I am there.

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BERLIN

08 Sunday May 2011

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Every year the Felsted Ten pushes off somewhere for a long weekend and this year it is Berlin. In wonderful weather we are enjoying a classic tourism hot spot; knee deep in history, top bars and restaurants, museums and art galleries, spectacular architecture and a river running through it.

This goes down as one of the best trips on record. So far we have been to Dublin, Venice, Budapest, Rome, Barcelona, Seville, Marrakech and Prague.

Christopher Macgowan
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