A Brief diary of a Motorhome named 'Iona'
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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’s Travels 