UK Campervan Trips
With Sue retiring, we will hopefully be doing a few more van trips and a bit more photography. So I thought I would blog about it a bit, mainly to have something to look back on in our dotage.

Victorious
As Sam and harriet were returning from their travels they were going to Victorius Festival in Portsmouth, mainly to see Jamie T. So Sue and I decided to go for the weekend and camp.

Latitude – the rest (still minus one)
Highlights include comedians like Rosie Jones and ventriloquist Nina Conti, musical acts like Rick Astley, Keane, The Darkness, and Duran Duran, and the festival’s relaxed atmosphere.We had a great time but Sue was sorely missed.

Latitude Day One (still minus one)
Day One, was probably the best line up, Frank Turner, Fatdog, TheVaccines and more!

Latitude – Day Zero (still minus one)
Day Zero… i.e. the arena opens but not really any bands on. But still a lovely chill day.

Off to Latitude minus one
https://youtu.be/0GGdbd_vm6Q We had booked tickets to Latitude back in January and were very much looking forward to it. Our friends Caroline and Chris had also

MP Eco Park
Sue’s steps 0 Dave’s stepsObviously longer strides 0 After a pretty decent night’s sleep, we had a very leisurely start to the day. The plan

Helligan Gardens and Judith’s Birthday
After a very restful night’s sleep, we had a leisurely start to the day and waited for Judith and Ivan to arrive as it was

Heligan
After a week working in Southampton on our old house, we have a week in Cornwall. Carefully timed to miss school half term. We spent

The Great Estate Festival
We attended this 2nd to 5th June, 2022 with friends and my sister. We had a great few days listening to the Manics and a

Van Hacks
Slow day today as the weather is awful. We have had 33 knots of wind, so good job we stayed inthe marina. So I though

Holeacre CL
I awoke about 6am and stepped out to watch the dawn. The mist was lying across the fields and the sheep were all relaxed and

Off again
We were taking Sue’s Mum and Dad on holiday to St Ives, so we thought that we would havecl a couple of days at a

And back to Southampton
After a good nights sleep, we got up and had some breakfast. We went for another walk along the river, as it was still very

Driving to Brecon
So we got up after a pretty good night’s sleep and had a tiny breakfast as we would be getting lunch at Andy and Sarah’s.

All About Eve
We had a nice slow start to the day on Sunday and Eve met us at the campsite at about 11:00 for our lunch trip

Driving to Cardiff
So our time in Llangennith was at an end. It was probably just as well as the Welsh schools had broken up and the camping

Llangenith – Day 3
After another great night’s sleep, and in contrast to yesterday, today we had a plan! We set off nice and early on our walk across

Llangenith – Day 2
Today we did …. virtually nothing. I went for a swim in the morning. sue took a photo and luckily for you, I am but

Travelling to Llangenith
We woke up in a leisurely fashion and availed ourselves of Caroline and Chris’s toaster to have toasted sourdough, marmite and hummus for breakfast. We

Tom’s Field – Day 2
We got up and had a jalapeno sausage roll for breakfast, before deciding where to go on our walk, or more which route to take.

Tom’s Field – Day 1
After spending the morning packing the van we set off to Dorset to Tom’s Field, via the butchers (Uptons) for bbq meats and sausage rolls