Right now we are parked with our motorhome in a car park in Albufeira. The site is called Parque de Palmeira and is within walking distance of the city centre. The place where we are parked is actually a former football pitch and according to the website, the income from the site goes towards travel and other costs for several youth football teams.
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When you enter the car park in Biscarosse-Plage on the Silver Coast in France, you press a button, receive a receipt with a code and enter through a barrier that opens. To exit through the barrier, the machine reads the receipt and tells you how much to pay. It sounds good, but it didn't really work, so to speak ...
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We are on the Silver Coast in France. The entire west coast of France from the Gironde estuary to Bayonne is called La Côte d'Argent - the Silver Coast. This is one long sandy beach with shifting dunes and tree plantings to slow down the spread of the sand. We've spent the night in a huge pitch among the trees in Biscarosse-Plage.
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At this time of year, there are almost no campsites open in northern France. Luckily, there are plenty of great pitches in France! For those who don't have a motorhome: a pitch is a place where you can stay overnight in a motorhome, sometimes with services such as rubbish collection, water and electricity.
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Now we have found a pitch in Veulettes-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast. The cliffs are dramatic and the wind is so strong that the motorhome door flies open when you open it. The sea is spraying fradga and a lone kite surfer is enjoying himself at high speed on the waves.
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The number of new motorhomes registered each year has tripled in the last 10 years. Now municipalities are beginning to realise that they need to provide parking spaces for motorhomes if they are not to lose out on tourists.
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In Ystads Allehanda you can read that Ystad wants to invest in motorhome tourists. They have calculated that during the high season they are visited by about 40 motorhomes per night and Marie Holmström, tourism strategist in Ystad, has been given the task of seeing how they can attract even more. She believes that this is a high-spending target group that they don't want to miss out on.
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Where can motorhomes be parked? The debate about where motorhomes can be parked has been heated this summer. The fact that motorhome owners are spending the night in car parks is causing campsite owners to see red and now the "motorhome war is escalating".
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The West Swedish Tourist Board has, within the project Motorhome Destination West Sweden, conducted a market survey among 1828 motorhome enthusiasts. The results show that motorhome owners are active tourists who visit West Sweden for a large part of the year.
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This summer's motorhome tourists are a high-spending customer group from all over Europe. Many don't want to stay at campsites, but instead want a simple overnight pitch close to attractions, restaurants and shops. For municipalities, tourism should be profitable ... but as soon as caravan sites are organised, there is an outcry.
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