Trip 11: Poplars Farm, Hulland nr Ashbourne. The view from the van The weather forecast was not very encouraging but it was going to be a bit warmer. This trip we are staying at Poplars Farm campsite, a couple of miles from the Derbyshire town of Ashbourne. This is a 5 pitch site with 3 …
Iona visits the 👑 Sandringham estate
Trip 10: Sandringham Camping & Caravan Club site, Norfolk. Our Pitch by the woods This campsite sits in a wood/forest on the Queen’s Sandringham estate. The event, a THS, (temporary holiday site) was set up by a Local Camping & Caravan Club district association. We are joining it after the weekend festivities, which included a …
Revival Time for Iona
Trip 9: Goodwood Revival, Chichester. We were due to go to the Goodwood Revival last year 2020 but then Covid 🦠changed everyone’s plans. Goodwood was just one of the thousands of events cancelled. However we were given the option of a refund or carry the tickets over to the next year, 2021. This year we …
Time for a Polish
Our last trip to Bridlington was great even if the sun struggled to show it’s face for long. Birdseye view or Bomb run We now have a few weeks before our next outing which will be for 5 nights at a couple of different sites. Add to that the fact that the van has been …
Iona visits Bridlington again
Trip 8: Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club, Bridlington. Wine o’clock on the beach? There were issues to this trip. There was a huge funeral at Lincoln Cathedral so we had to avoid the city centre and use the new Eastern bypass. The new route was much easier and quicker than going our normal route. Then there …
Iona goes in search of a Pork Pie
Trip 7: Barn Farm, Scalfold, Melton Mowbray Looking forward to this three night break mainly because the boiler was repaired yesterday and this will be a working test before our next trip north. It will also be the first time we have been away with the new solar panel monitor. I contacted the farmer to …
Iona gets repaired
Truma Boiler Repair at Saxilby by ACTS The good news is that Truma were able to supply me with the parts to repair the boiler and ACTS had booked us in at their Saxilby unit to do the repair. The route to Saxilby had to change because there had been an accident on the A15 …
Bourton on the Water beckons to Iona
Trip 6: Bourton on the Water FC, July 27th 2021 I visited Bourton in the 1970s when there was a National Model Flying Championship at RAF Little Rissington. I remember the bridges over the river but that is all, so I am looking forward to our visit. This is also the first trip with two …
Iona gets more Solar Power part 2
The final parts arrived. I did have to wait for the weather to change and we were away for a few days. The mounts were connected to the solar panel and because they were so smooth I did rough them up a bit to make the sikaflex adhesive hold better. The new extension leads arrived …
Iona gets more Solar Power part 1
Iona already has a solar panel and two leisure batteries and to be honest we have never run out on battery power. However with the lack of sun recently we were having to decide what to watch on TV at night and what lights to put on. The TV and the water pump use the …
