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Motorhome Travels

The New Forest

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Travelled down the M3 on 1st September to the Hollands Wood Campsite in the middle of the New Forest for 4 nights. This is a ‘Camping in the Forest’ site just outside Brockenhurst – no electricity hook up and pitch up whereever you like under the trees (just watch out for the ponies)! It was very peaceful with some excellent walks through the forest. We took a bus from outside the campsite into the very attractive town of Lymington. The town is situated where the Lymington River meets the Solent. We walked along the river past several marinas and a huge sea water swimming pool. There was plenty of traffic on the river including the car ferry heading for Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. On our last day as a special treat we stopped for lunch at The Pig – we has seen the restaurant featured on a BBC programme and the food did not disappoint!

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Motorhome Travels

Stamford

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On 1st August 2021 we were off to spent 3 nights at 30 Slate Drift, a CL near Stamford with Sue and Mark. Although nominally all the pitches were grass, the whole site was very well drained which was fortunate as we had quite a lot of rain! We had a visit from Rachael, Alex and Barney the Bassett and had an excellent meal at a nearby pub, The Fox at Luffenham

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Ironbridge- June 2021, Motorhome Travels

Ashbourne and Ironbridge (Part 2)

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On Monday 7th June we moved north to the Lower Hill Campsite situated next to the National Trust’s Wenlock Edge. En-route we stopped at Benthall Hall, an unusual NT property with different parts of the house reflecting it’s 500 year history – some rooms containing items from the medieval period, the industrial revolution and even the 50’s. The following day we drove into Shrewsbury an attractive old market town almost entirely surrounded by the River Severn.

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Ironbridge- June 2021, Motorhome Travels

Ashbourne and Ironbridge (Part 1)

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On the 3rd June we set off on a week long two stop trip – initially returning to the superb Lakeside Meadow CL near Ashbourne where we met up with Ali and Alan. This time we (well – Alan) even managed to get the firepit started! The wildlife was, as always, very impressive – we had 2 hares running across the grass very close to the van. We visited the attractive village of Tissington and the following day ventured out to Carsington Water stopping at Black Rocks – both locations well worth a visit.

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Devon - Oct 2020, Motorhome Travels

Damage Barton and Damaged Husband

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We left Bridgetown taking a very scenic route through Exmoor ending up on the coast at Lynmouth. A very pleasant walk along the prom was followed by a ride on the funicular railway up to the town of Lynton. The railway is an amazing piece of Victorian engineering – water powered so very environmental as well!

We then drove on to our next campsite at Damage Barton situated on the cliffs over looking the Bristol Channel just to the north-east of Woolacombe. The following morning we drove the van down a rather steep lane into the town and had a very nice walk on Woolacombe’s superb beach followed by some tasty fish & chips sitting on the front.

That night Peter suffered with some very unpleasant stomach pains which resulted in a 12 night stay in the local hospital but that’s the start of another (long) story……

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Devon - Oct 2020, Motorhome Travels

Exmoor

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First stop on our trip around Devon was a village called Bridgetown in the centre of Exmoor (not the one in Jamaica!). We stayed at the Exe Valley campsite which is an excellent site spread along the banks of the river Exe (surprise!). A helpful owner, well stocked shop, good free (!) wifi and even TV cabling to every pitch – we would certainly recommend it to others (without children, it’s an adult only site). Only downsides – because of the weather the ground was muddy, we had no problem with the hardstanding pitch but the walks through the surrounding woodlands were a bit of a challenge at times! The village pub was only open at weekends but I’ll blame that on COVID.

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