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 …
Iona goes for the Mussels
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. …
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 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 …
Iona Goes to Ripon
: Temporary Holiday Site at Ripon Racecourse. Trip 2: May 17th ; 🌧☁️⛅️ 10°C The Covid 19 🦠 pandemic has slowed although there is an Indian variant causing concern in some areas. The restrictions have relaxed and camping is allowed along with other forms of holidays in this country. We have not been to Ripon …
The planning has Started
The Covid 🦠 restrictions which we have lived with for months are being relaxed. There are still do’s and don’t but one of the Do’s is that camping in motorhomes and caravans is now allowed. We thought that everywhere would be rammed solid as foreign holiday travel is still banned, however some of the pictures …
Camping is allowed from April
Well we still have the pandemic but some restrictions are being relaxed. Staying away from home is one of them so this means camping can begin. However don’t get too excited because the first month will be horrendous and we have already decided not to rush out because we can. Iona has now had a …
Iona heads for the Coast
Trip 3: Iona heads for the Coast Woodhill Campsite, East Runton, Norfolk. March 10th 2020 It took us just over 2.5 hours to get here. The campsite is on the top of some cliffs and quite exposed. It looked pretty uneven with quite a slope, but despite being instructed to reverse by using the ramps …
Iona finds a Forest
Trip 2: Puddledock Farm Campsite, Hockham, Thetford. For our second trip we had planned to go to the village of Ratley in Oxfordshire which lies next to the village of Edgehill. This is the site of the Battle of Edgehill. However we had an email from Mount Farm two days before we were due to …
Iona goes to the Norfolk Coast
Trip 1. Deepdale Backpackers Park, Brancaster. There is a storm rolling in that will have very high winds and it looks like we will still catch the end of it as we drive to Norfolk. We left home at 10.30am and headed towards Kings Lynn and then turned left towards Cromer on the North Norfolk …