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 mainly sitting down. Susan even came outside in her nightdress for a look. Previous Next After such a lovely dawn, we had a great breakfast and tried out our toaster. […]
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 CL in Devon just on the edge of Dartmoor. The CL was called Holeacre. It is just past Exeter a couple of miles off the A30. When we booked the […]
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 hot. Odie, as you can see above found a pal to go racing with. He is really very quick, and surprisingly the other dog is even quicker.Sue managed to slip […]
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. We packed up(we are getting quite good at this now) , plugged in the travel directions to Tesco extra and left Cardiff campsite. On arrival at Tesco we managed to […]
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 to Penarth. She was due a day out as we had not managed one for a long time due to all the restrictions but she had also had two stretches […]
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 site was getting much busier. We got up and had a cup of tea and then packed up the van in a leisurely fashion. I even had a shower to […]
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 packed the van away slowly, in no rush to start the 4 and a half hour journey to the Gower. However, by 10:30 we were more or less ready and […]
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 and a pie! We were meeting up with Caroline and Chris for a couple of days socializing at the start of our 10 day trip around a few places. I […]
Laredo to Viveiro – Day 1
Day 17 Laredo to Viveiro – Day 1 Two kingfishers on the pontoon next to us. As the marina was quite empty, I got onto the pontoons to get some good shots of the boat, uninterrupted by any other boats. Does that count as going on shore?As I wasn’t going ashore Marco had to do […]
La Rochelle to Laredo – Day Two
Day 16 España La Rochelle to Laredo – Day Two The wind finally gave up just past midnight. By now the motor and autopilot had been on for a while. The sails were just flapping now, as we rolled along through the waves so we furled them up. We still hadn’t seen a single boat or […]