February 13th - Motorhome Adventures Across Europe: A Unique Group Travel Concept
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Today, I uncover the charm of travelling Europe in a motorhome with a twist: escorted tours that offer social interaction, guidance, and peace of mind. We discuss the popular routes, the logistics of flotilla travel, and why some travellers choose to return year after year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast. It's Tuesday the 13th of February |
| 0:09.6 | Pancake Day but I am in Birmingham at the Caravan Camping and Motor Home Show 2024. |
| 0:18.4 | While it's a very exciting time to see new motorhomes costing half a million pounds and all the |
| 0:25.7 | other new innovations, I also like to find people who've got unusual travel businesses. And I think I've |
| 0:33.7 | found them, Wendy and Bob Reeves of Crossings Motor Homes, which, well, why |
| 0:40.3 | don't you tell me what you do? |
| 0:42.3 | Okay. We run independent motorhome tours, fully escorted around mainland Europe. We take |
| 0:51.3 | people who have their own motor homes and we procure the tours of which they choose which one they would like to come on. |
| 0:59.0 | Do you mind me saying this sounds an odd sort of business because if I buy a motor home, I've bought it because I want to travel around on my own. |
| 1:09.0 | It's my own kind of escape pod. I want to just go wherever I like. |
| 1:14.6 | And you are effectively saying we will put you in, I guess, a convoy of vehicles and drive you around the continent. |
| 1:22.6 | Okay, yes, that's not quite how we work. We always say with these tours, they're not for everybody. |
| 1:29.3 | There's tens of thousands of people motorhoming these days and it's getting more and more popular. |
| 1:34.3 | And a small percentage of those people are interested in doing that in a group for various reasons. |
| 1:40.3 | Those reasons, typically some people, maybe if they're going to mainland Europe for the first time |
| 1:46.4 | have some trepidation about it sometimes it's they just enjoy the idea of having everything |
| 1:53.3 | organised for them and sometimes they come because they like the social aspect of it |
| 1:58.6 | I'll take you to task on the convoy thing. We don't really like |
| 2:03.3 | travelling in convoy because when you've got sort of 12 to 15 motorhomes all travelling along, |
| 2:08.6 | you're probably up to about half a mile. So we don't tend to do that. So what we like to do, |
| 2:14.5 | we call it more of a flotilla holiday than a convoy holiday. So as long as we all start and end up at the same place, then everybody's happy. |
| 2:21.3 | And I imagine that if you're helping people who are perhaps apprehensive with travelling to Europe |
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