Travels with Fufu, our motorhome
Thursday 20th - Monday 24th March 2025 We are staying on the Camping and Caravanning Club site at Delamere Forest, as part of the CCC Photo Group meeting being held there. Our thanks to Ian and Sue for stewarding the meet and making everyone feel welcome. Thursday 20th - Friday 21 March After setting up …
Friday 7th to Sunday 9th March 2025 We had an unexpectedly free weekend, so decided to visit St Michael's-on-Wyre, staying with the Ribblesdale British Caravanners Club, which is a section of the Camping and Caravanning Club. They were holding their AGM at Turnover Hall Farm and Caravan Site and they allowed us to piggy-back onto …
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Saturday 19th October 2024 (day 36). Another brief post today. It rained consistently for much of the morning, stopping only long enough for us to get some shopping done, eventually stopping around 2pm. Taking advantage of this, we chilled for a while, then later went for a cycle ride along the canal. There is consistent …
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Wednesday 2nd October 2024 (day 19) A wet day was forecast, so we had booked tickets to tour the Doge's Palace. Unlike yesterday, when we just wandered around, we made our way straight to the palace, just off St. Mark's Square, passing through some of the poshest shopping streets along the way. Most of the …
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Thursday 26th - Saturday 28th September 2024 (days 13 - 15). Thursday was a complete wash-out. We had moved further down Lake Maggiore to Verbania, a city which is on a headland, on the west coast of the lake. It threatened rain on the way down and arriving around 11am, we managed to just about …
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Wednesday 25th September (day 12) Driving south from Liechtenstein back through part of Switzerland, we opted for the tunnel rather than the San Bernardino pass, which saved us some considerable time, heading for Lake Maggiore and on its western shore, the small town of Cannobio. Looking down Lago Maggiore from Cannobio Cannobio is a small, …
Thursday 23rd May 2024 The Town of Landerneau lies at the mouth of the river Elorn and is about 14 miles east of Brest. The town built wealth as a port in the 15th and 16th centuries via the trade in linen. Many of the buildings present today, date from that period. Le Pont de …
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 …
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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 …
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