There are few more avid campers than the French. As is their nature, they really go to town (or should that be country?) with their camping expeditions. In every major location in France, there are superbly well equipped campsites with all the facilities of home. The French, when they go camping, take the whole family, grandparents included. They also take almost everything in the house, apart from the kitchen sink! They don't need that; the washing facilities on every French campsite are excellent. Hot and cold running water and incredibly clean and hygienic toilets. You need never go native in France, or at least unwashed.

Power-sockets line impeccably laid out campsites so the French can watch their favorite TV program. They're creatures of habit! They can also power their fridges and you even see the odd one cutting the grass round their site with electric mowers. Eccentricity is a national trait with the French, but it rubs off, so if you decide to take a French camping holiday, don't be surprised if you start doing strange things likewise.

One can only look in astonishment at what the French bring with them when they go camping. They invariably have car-towed trailers to stow all their household equipment; you'd need one when you see their inventory. Camping stoves, and fully-fledged cookers, all the necessary cutlery and tableware. Their tents are enormous with electric lights and even electric air-bed pumps. All their furniture likewise, it seems. You'll never consider yourself well equipped for camping after you've seen the French. They like to do it in style, as you might expect from the inventors of the concept of chic.

The only problem is when you try and emulate them.

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About the Author David Seymour is lives in South West France and is the managing director of Adept Marketing SARL, a company specialising in property for sale france

First Published: Aug 26, 2007