Jacqui & Neil PM
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Arrived 14:20 nice easy journey, very wet with 2 pitches remaining, Paul greeted us with a warm smile and a well where do you want to go. Picked a spot and tried not to stop had a bit of pain getting on the blocks, we wil need a tow to get off on Sunday.
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Set off for the Chester Camperfest and food festival.
Stayed in the CL perched on top of a hill bit windy but very pleasant. Â Dined at the Hotel and had a very pleasant meal met folks who were touring the UK and Scotland and trying to get to Cape Wrath. Â One had walked from Fort William!
The Village/Town has a new and old harbour the old harbour is sheltered and allows overnight stops. Â There is a Spar and some other small shops but nothing very exciting. Â Still we would definitely come back.
Liked it so much stayed 2 days, fishing walking excellent spot if the weather is right whihc is most definitely was.
First trip of 2016, should have been easy to get van ready but as ever something is forgotten or missed. Either way still takes awhile to get ready to go, we got away at 13:30 arrived about 16:30, would have been a but earlier but sat nav took us through Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst and just missed Sway. Google had an easier route, but longer quicker though.
Setthorns is a definitely a Forest site, Select pitches defined pitches well spaced out but well defined spots, very different to Ocknell and Long Beech.
Geza not sure about going away but is probably recalling trips away as an opportunity to clear plates, sleep and hunt!
Slept well woke about 10am, had brekkie and set off on a walk to the Rising Sun pub, it was a bit muddy and wet although clear and no rain, temp about 4. Took us 2 hrs to walk it had to turn round twice trying to get across a small stream that had become a proper river. Should have worn wellies instead tried out new boots, they worked wrll but wellies would have been more practical. After walking across a stream saw Geza skip across icy grass so I followed sadly ice broke and it was not a grass but a very large puddle.
Walk back alot easier as went via the road, then after the river turned off onto old railway track taking us back to the site.
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Moved on from Long Beach spending the day at Winterton on Sea, in the car park and on the beach. Â Walnut Farm independent site EHU, very nice setting, no access to the coast, facilities a bit poor but improving.
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Decided to stop on the coast checked into Hemsby Long Beach Park, real throwback to the 50s. Â Statics, Bungalows, pitches caravans tents all mixed up in the so called Bush Estate. Â But right on the beach.
Only stayed one night long enough.
A tour round the North Coast 500 route, starting in Dingwall and ending at Loch Lomond, took just over 2 weeks, setting off 4th September and arriving home 20th September.
Travelled from Wick up the east coast stopping at John O’Groats for the obligatory photo. Â Saw a guy who had literally just finished a cycle from Lands End. Â Bought a couple of sweat shirts and learnt that we had missed the Northern Lights, apparently a great display from about 11pm the night before.
Dunnet Bay, is by the beach so had a play using wetsuit to a have a swim in the Norwegian Sea. Â Geza ate a fresh Jelly fish and stung his throat and stomach in the end we rang the vet who said just give him milk and let him eat the grass if he wants he should improve but if worsens then to call again, thankfully he improved.
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Touring site at Wick.
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