Travels with Fufu, our motorhome
Thu 9th May - Fri 10th May 2024 Our plan for this trip is to spend the next month exploring Brittany. Thursday 9th May: Folly Farm, near Islip, Oxfordshire. We broke the journey south to Portsmouth, with a stop-over near Oxford. Folly Farm is a small campsite, around 3.5 miles from the A34, which is …
Continue reading "Brittany 1: The Journey South and Cherbourg, Normandy."
Friday 26th to Sunday 28th April 2024 This weekend, Fufu has taken us to the pleasant market town of Otley on the River Wharf, near to Leeds. We are staying on the practice ground of the Old Otliensians Rugby Union Football Club, which is being used as a temporary holiday site by the Yorkshire Region …
Thursday 18th to Sunday 21st April 2024 Dent is a pretty village, situated in Dentdale, a narrow valley. It has a very long history as a settlement and until, the local boundary changes in 1974, it was in the west Riding of Yorkshire. Nevertheless, despite being in Cumbria, it lies within the Yorkshire Dales National …
Thursday 28th to Sunday 30th March 2024 We have taken Fufu away for Easter to the northern part of Morecambe Bay, on the River Kent estuary. Our campsite is at Carr Bank House Farm, Hazelslack, where we are attending a meet of the North East Lancashire District Association of the Camping and Caravanning Club. Our …
Saturday 2nd March 2024 This weekend, we had met up again with our motorhoming buddies, Jeeves, Michelle and their cockapoo Layla, at Broadholme Lane Caravan Park, which is around 30 minutes walk from Belper town centre. Belper Market Square (no market today) The market town of Belper was a centre for nail making since the …
Thu 22nd to Sun 25th February 2024 After our return from Spain in January, we have had a short break from motorhome trips, but had put our name down on the waiting list for the Camping and Caravanning Club Lakeland District Association meet at Waterfoot Caravan Park, Pooley Bridge. As there had been a cancellation, …
Continue reading "Pooley Bridge, Penrith and Gowbarrow Fell, Cumbria"
Tuesday 12th - Wednesday 13th December 2023 This is a major trip for us and long in the planning. We are meeting up with our motorhoming friends, Jeeves, Michelle and their cockapoo, Layla, in France, then traveling on to southern Spain for Christmas and the New Year. Our return ferry is booked for the 13th January. The …
Continue reading "Spain Trip 1: Home to Falaise, Calvados via Thrupp, Oxfordshire"
Friday 3rd, to Sunday 5th November 2023 Southport Although Southport is quite close to home, we joined a meet of the North Lancashire District Association of the Camping and Caravanning Club, for their Guy Fawkes fireworks and supper night. Our thanks to the stewards, Peter and Helen who put a great deal of effort into …
Continue reading "Southport, Merseyside and Rufford Old Hall"
Tuesday 24th October 2023 We called at Hanbury Hall on our way home from the Gloucestershire trip as a way of breaking up the journey. Hanbury Hall The hall was built in the 18th century by Thomas Vernon, a wealthy lawyer on land owned by his family. Built in the Queen Anne style, the building is …
Continue reading "Hanbury Hall, Near Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire"
Monday 23rd October 2023 The twin villages of Upper and Lower Slaughter, are about a mile from each other and a similar distance from the larger village of Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds. All three villages are extremely picturesque with building built of cream coloured Cotswold stone. Lower Slaughter Lower Slaughter has the River Eye running …
Continue reading "The Slaughters and Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire"
"See-u-Later" 