A Brief diary of a Motorhome named 'Iona'
Trip 6: Kingsbury Water Park, Sutton Coldfield. This was a late change in our plans and being a Camping & Caravan Club site is not a normal venue type for us. However the campsite is in the middle of a massive country park of over 600 acres, with fishing lakes, bird sanctuary, water sport lakes …
Trip 5: Sandy Gulls Campsite, Mundlesey, Norfolk From the Cobble street of Bedale to the sandy north Norfolk coast. The cliffs are popular with flyers We got to the campsite and while filling up with water we were joined by the campsite warden, Christine. She took us through all the info and told us where …
Trip 4: Bedale caravan and Camping Park Bedale Temporary Holiday Site This trip sees Iona head north to the edge of the Yorkshire Dales and the town of Bedale with its cobbled street. Our journey took 4 hours, an hour and a bit longer than planned because the A1M was closed and the short detour …
Trip 3: The Paddocks , Stockton, Nth Hants. Our second trip was to the Norfolk Coast and keeping to a water theme Trip 3 sees us headed to Stockton, Northants, next to the Grand Union Canal. We had an uneventful trip down to Stockton until we were in Rugby and we got held up . …
Trip 2: Burnham Deepdale , Norfolk. 2022. Brancaster Staithe Harbour Burnham Deepdale is a small village on the North Norfolk coast. We have been here twice before. The campsite is a comprehensive camping and backpacker’s site with full facilities plus a cafe,shop and garage. They also have a market with Pop Up stalls and Shops. …
Trip 1: Maythorne Campsite, Southwell. The heading covers two points, firstly my birthday and secondly our trip to visit Southwell Workhouse museum that was closed the last time we were in Southwell. To be honest the trip here, in fact the first three hours were a collection of catastrophes although that may be a bit …
Iona 🚍 has been washed 🧽🪣 and a lot of the items in the lockers were removed ready for the habitation service p. Habitation service day came on a 🌥 9°C: bright morning but no frost. The water system was filled ready for the service in Saxilby. We were collected from the unit by Carol …
Last year 2021 despite some 🦠 Covid restrictions we managed to visit new places as well as going back to old friends. Here are some of last year’s sights……… Ashbourne Bourton on the Water Bridlington Thetford Forest Foulden Chertsey Goodwood Revival Hunstanton Ripon Ripon Saltfleetby Sandringham Scalford Scalford Market Harborough Market Harborough following the Brampton …
Trip 12: Maythorne Farm Campsite, Southwell, Nottinghamshire. This was probably going to be our last trip in Iona before Christmas. The weather was getting colder and more in-line with Autumn / Winter temperatures. Our destination for this trip was Southwell in Nottinghamshire. There is a Minster, a workhouse museum, Lord Byron stayed here and King …
Walking the Brampton Valley Way between Northampton and Market Harborough, taking in the Oxenden and Kelmarsh tunnels.
Iona’s Travels 