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Good news - more pitches will be available, and will no longer be restricted to people in one particular club.

Site owners are starting to instal electricity meters - pay for what you use.

Disco4x4, You miss Paris - and save 100 miles of driving too - by crossing from Portsmouth instead of going to Calais.

Is there a service to Bilbao in December? Better check.

Certainly not via Holsworthy, Launceston and Plymouth - even though the route finders show that as one of the alternatives.

An alternative is the overnight ferry to St Malo instead of to Caen. It’s dearer but more leisurely, you get longer in bed on that route, and the distance to Sequoia Park comes down to 234 miles. Now that is easy.

About 300miles - so 6.5 hours non stop driving as it’s not all motorway - plus possible delays on the ring roads at Rennes, Nantes and La Rochelle, especially on summer Saturdays, plus a meal stop - so no less than 8 hours in all .

The OP said he was travelling “next month” but that club site at Fareham (Rookesbury Park) closes for the winter on 31 October 2021.

I think you need a fall back plan in case the parking area at Winchester services is full of trucks. Where are you sailing from? If it’s Portsmouth I would suggest overnight in the PortSolent leisure / marina complex, which is free of charge, but if it’s from Lymington I don’t know what options are there,

Yes it is. But anyone with a double axle caravan will have to ask whether the campsite will accept them as the website firmly says they will not.

Camping les Capucines at Ranville is the nearest site to the ferry port which will be open for your arrival and departure at those times and dates. But make a reservation.

Ask Al Ko.There’s a contact form n their website.

My local JLR main dealer says they stopped contracting this job out and only do it in house now - they got tired of putting right electrical faults caused by other people.

Various websites on line will answer your question. Blue Arrow.co.uk is one which seems to explain it very clearly.

The local residents in Brittany don’t bother with them either .