Trip 3, FourWinds,March, Cambridgeshire. This trip is planned for three nights. we set off heading to a campsite near St Ives in Cambridgeshire. We found the site but there was no-one about, the Orchard site was behind a barrier. There was a rally field with some hard standings but they were all taken up by …
2019 Camping Season is here.
Iona has been taxed, the habitation Service and the Fiat Service are done. The replacement rear skirt has arrived at the dealership for fixing next month. The year has been planned with 21 trips which includes four nights at The Goodwood Revival. The first venue is Burnham Deepdale in Norfolk. Our first 2019 blog will …
Preparing for the 2019 Motorhome Season
Happy New Year. The new year has arrived. Iona is sitting on the drive waiting for the next trip. Our final trip of 2018 was using her as a bedroom on our son’s driveway while we spent a couple of nights with them over Christmas. Halfway through January and withdrawal symptoms are beginning to develop. …
Iona goes by the river
We decided to have another three night break in North Lincolnshire, this would be ideal for our friend to join us but as it happened they had just returned from a five week trip and could not find the time to join us before Christmas. Our destination was Burton upon Stather just north-west of Scunthorpe. …
Iona heads 20 miles South
Trip 16, Pickering, North York Moors part 2. We left Whitby and headed across the moors to Pickering. Driving up and down some of the hills was interesting. Pickering was busy but we easily found our way to the new campsite. It is more of a lawn than a field and surrounded by trees and …
Iona Heads North
Trip 15: Whitby , York Moors part 1. So we head for the North York Moors, starting at Whitby for four nights and then south to Pickering at the other end of the North Yorks Steam Railway. This will be our longest trip of eight nights away, without electric hook up, so I will no-doubt …
Iona goes to the Peaks
Trip 14 : The Peak District Beckons From the seaside to the mountainside. This trip takes us to Derbyshire and the Peak District. The campsite is on a working farm near Castleton in Hope Valley. We arrived after a couple of stops to change my shoes because they were catching on the carpet and wedging …
Iona is now Charging
A twin 2.1amp USB charging point fitted. Auto-Trails, well our Imala, has no way to charge iPads and phones without the engine running unless you buy a cigarette lighter extension with USB ports to plug into the TV 12v socket. I did this and found that you can only charge one iPad and a phone …
Iona goes to York
Trip 10: Yesterday we drove to Sleaford and filled up with auto-gas and diesel and then went to the Mountain Transport depot to use the public weighbridge. Our previous post tells of how we got on and we have payload to spare. This morning we rang the THS at York RUFC to check if they …
The latest upgrade
After watching the football, England beating Panama , I got bored so I decided to carpet the ‘garage’ in Iona. That will stop everything sliding around and probably stop some rattles.
Iona’s Travels 