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 …
The Habitation door
Window Repair After a great few days away at Bridlington we had a week at home to do all the normal things with the garden and house. It is also half term so we had the grandchildren over for a couple of days. On one of these days it had been raining over night and …
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 goes to the Coast
Bridlington Yacht Club. We are going back up north, over the river Humber to Fraisthorpe just south of Bridlington, Yorkshire. We were very near here last year and it was a great seaside venue, only 300 metres to the beach. This year the campsite is even closer. Now that we consider winter has gone the …
Iona returns to Empingham Reservoir
All set up Our planned trip to Hatton Country World was cancelled due to last weeks wet weather and the venue is waterlogged. We have been stuck before on muddy grass so a wet rally field is a bit off putting. So we have planned to go to Lyndon top which is basically 117 acres …
Iona’s Travels 