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 Shakespeare Country
Trip 11: Stratford upon Avon Racecourse THS Once fully loaded we set off towards Stratford Racecourse, stopped for some diesel and headed to Leicester and the motorway. Then around Coventry and down the A46 to Stratford, it was about 98 miles so it should have taken us about two hours. In the end it now us …
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 …
Grafham Water Deliverance
Trip 9: The drive down to Grafham Water was easy and trouble free. We were not allowed on the campsite until 2.00 pm so we went to the car park by the Grafton Water visitor centre, here we had lunch and people watched. At 2.00 pm we headed back to the Shooters Hollow campsite. The …
Worcestershire another first
We are off to Cob House Park in Worcestershire despite having a Habitation door window held in with duct tape. The warranty claim is in progress but we cannot wait for a fix. The route took us to Nottingham then onto the A42/M42 around Birmingham to the M5. I had seen we needed junction 5 …
Iona’s Travels 