Saturday 14 - Sunday 15th September 2024 So another adventure begins. After staying on Saturday night on a 5-van campsite near to the small Kent village Pluckley and meeting up with our friends Jeeves and Michelle (not forgetting Layla, the Cockapoo), we have crossed the channel from Dover to Calais and are staying on an …
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Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th August 2024 We spent the weekend attending the annual exhibition of the Camping and Caravanning Club, Photographic Group which was held at Princes Risborough School. We stayed on the car park. The club held a successful exhibition with more than 300 entries including prints and projected digital images. The independent …
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Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th August 2024 We had managed to book a place on a temporary holiday site, organised by the Lakeland District Association of the Camping and Caravanning Club, at John Ruskin School, Coniston. Yewdale Road, Coniston The designated site was on the school playing fields, but as there had been considerable rainfall …
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Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th July 2024 We are staying for the final part of our trip, at Sixpenny Handley, a small village in the north of Dorset, just over the boundary from Wiltshire. The venue is Church Farm Caravan Site, but we are in their rally field, attending a meeting of the Camping and …
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Wednesday 24th to Thursday 25th July 2024 We had booked a stay overnight at the Bell Inn, Wylye, a small picturesque village about 7 miles from Stonehenge and made our way there via the Langford Lakes Nature Reserve, run by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. Langford Lakes Nature Reserve: We enjoyed a nice walk around the …
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Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th July 2024 We had a two-night stay in the Devizes area of Wiltshire, staying at The New Inn, Coate, a Camping and Caravanning Club Certified Site. More information on this at the end of this blog post. Devizes Market Place and Market Cross Devizes is a busy town which originally …
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Monday 22nd July 2024 The very attractive village of Avebury is most famous for its neolithic henge of standing stones. Built around the same time as Stonehenge, they form the largest stone circle in the world and have been in place for 4500 years. There was originally a high circular bank and deep ditch, inside …
Sunday 21st July 2024 Since Thursday evening, we have been staying at the very pleasant village of Down Ampney, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, where the Gloucester District Association of the Camping and Caravanning Club were holding a meet on the football club grounds. With a population of 644 at the 2011 census, it is classed as …
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Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th July 2024 We spent a couple of nights at Nuholme Caravan Site, near Chipping Norton in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, where the Cambrian & Wyvern Region of the Camping and Caravanning Club were holding a temporary holiday site. Wednesday 17th July, Chipping Norton The small market town of Chipping Norton grew …
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Saturday and Monday, 13th and 15th July 2024 We visited Cambridge city centre on both Saturday and Monday, each time travelling by a "guided bus" which for part of the journey took a route along the path of an old railway line, enabling a traffic-free fast journey along some stretches. Saturday 13th July On the …
"See-u-Later" 