how far have you gone...?

We travel Europe every year Killiand and have been down to the south of Portugal and the costas in Spain a couple of times. Yes, Croatia shouldn’t possess any great problems and we’ve looked at going down to Greece. We’re fortunate enough to be able to take extended time away and when traveling longer distances that is a big bonus. We’re looking forward once again to being away over the winter but it will be Spain for us once again.

We were students living in London and our daughter was 2 years old at that time, we hired one and headed off to mainland Europe. Done France, Belgium, then onto Germany and Luxembourg. Our daughter picked up a viral infection and we ended up in a German military hospital.

That wee girl is just finishing her 1st year at Banbridge Academy this summer, we've two more now, 4 and 3 year old and bought our 1st MH this year planning to head off to Europe once again.

My main concern is that Europe looks very different now-a-days with a lot more human displacement and economic uncertainty in some countries.

We bought our 1999 camper 5 years ago. Our first trip to Europe that summer was to Romania, We travelled right down to Mamia on the Black Sea....Next stop would have been Turkey! The 2.8 idtd engine never missed a beat and we were on some horrendous roads to boot.

Managing the annual leave can be tricky.
From my experience, I find that if I start and finish the hols with half weeks, my employer is more accommodating. From their propective, I finish up half through week 27 and return halfway on week 30. I get 3 weeks off the company is only losing me for 2 full weeks.
Killiand the only limits on your destination is yourself and the amount of time that you want to spent driving.
Last year on the return sailings from Cherbourg, I met a guy who had driven 17 hours on his return trip. He was on a 16 day trip, 2 used on the ferry and only 2 used driving, leaving his family a 13 day holiday.

We spent around 5 days on the Black Sea before heading back to Bistrita ( Transylvannia Region ) Where my wife is from. On our way to the Black sea and almost central Romania is the beautiful city of Brasov....We spent a fantastic day there....I remember going into a butchers in a local market buying loads of ham etc...The people looked shocked when I started feeding my dog with it

Ardmore

Bournemouth

So far for us it's been ballintoy....

Didn't have the confidence in our old van to hit the continent.. Despite threatening it on numerous occasions!

To the homestead in Catalunya via landbridge roughly 1500 miles each way

Athens over 5000 miles in total Think it was 1983

We went as far as Hungary some years ago and it was a fantastic holiday.

Our first big trip was in a t4 poptop with an 18 month old.we got the ferry to holyhead and then another ferry from harwich to netherlands, then belguim, luxembourg, germany, switzerland, liechtenstein, italy, monaco france and back from roscoff in 3 weeks. furtherest point was probably the italian riviera. i think that trip was around 5000km
We are now home a few weeks from our second big trip and had another passenger with us, we upgraded the poptop to a nissan interstar as we had another kid last year, so with the 3 year old and a 9 month old we did france spain and andorra and back over the pyrenees....again in 3 weeks. furtherest point was probably zaragoza in spain. we did approx 3700km on that trip.
everyone thinks we are crazy especially with 2 small kids but i think people are crazy going to a resort and not leaving the hotel for a week or 2.
We met a couple in france that had 2 boys the same age as ours that were 6 weeks into a year long trip......it got us thinking......will keep doing the euromillions.

I did 1000 miles in 24 hours once, on a motorbike...

Does that count?

(And it was in Ireland)...

Was that the 24hour Honda 50 endurance race in Mondello park.