Date: 2023/08/25 at 13 Horton Drive helped move Lawrence and Lorna move in unloaded van with Ashley and June.
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2021/05/29, Blue Lias Inn
Camp with kids, L&L newly converted van both with awnings. Meal in Friday Ok. Thunder took out table and Lorna. Friday and Saturday night.
Price: 25
Water, Waste, EHU, WC, Showers
Stay Again? Yes
Why? Near canals
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Day 7, Vinya Els Vilars, Arbec
Left the free aire, full and empty. The EHU went off at some point in the evening and did not come back on disappointing.
We decided to head off via the Simpler tunnel having googled D934 France to check the suggested route, 2nd result was dangerousroads.org apparently it is a famous overhang road and not for the faint hearted so we have given it a miss.
Somport tunnel is a great route easy and fast with little hassle Spanish side is much better than French.
We stopped for a coffee and discovered the temp had risen to 22c. Filled with some petrol and decided to head for the next Aire. This was a carpark with some facilities outside a police station, but was in a poor state of repair and a bit too close to a main road.
Onto the next, which was a free vineyard near Arbrec, Vinya Els Vilars, free everything, toilet, wash basins etc…
And they sell wine not cheap wine so 2 red, 1 white and and oil 59€.
Lovely tea, cooked and eaten outside whilst our bread cooked inside.
Europe 2018, 4
Moved on from Versailles, it started raining so good decision, due to the road works and tarmac lorries the main route out was blocked so we turned right expecting to reach Ave de Versailles and turn up to the palace and out to the main road away from Paris. The Sat nav told us to go right towards Paris, it was a interesting route and we skirted the periphic.
Cracked avoiding tolls so a tedious drive but much better eventually reached Chartres and the N10 a good road and easy enough stopped just before tours for lunch and then decided to stop after tours at a shop for fuel and some bread.
An intermarche at Ste. Maure de Touraine provided fuel, whisky and bread. Checked out Campercontact and found a few on the route one very nearby, so headed off as we took the route it began to ring a few bells as we turned in realised we had been before Le Bois Chaudron. 2years ago with Geza, for the vet, Geza was ill all night and the next day we ended going to the vet in Gace.
4euro for the night no electric and no rubbish bins, but pleasant and a convenient stop it seems as we have used it twice.
Good nights sleep.
Setthorns, 24th Feb
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Wanted to visit New Forest to get a tree fix, so booked into Setthorns. This time we booked a standard pitch with EHU, not a Select pitch. The pitches are smaller as such harder to get level on, we managed but did for the first time park up somewhere we could not get level with the hydraulics, we moved.
We also had a look around and decided that Select pitch next time.
Saturday, walked about 6 miles to the pub and back, Geza managed it but was tired. When we got back a caravan alarm was going off turns out it was the one next door, nothing untoward but quite annoying, we decided not to move and they did come back under the cover of darkness.
As it turns out the walk was a bit too much for Geza and when we got back home we ended up taking him to the vet, after offering to put him to sleep which we declined we took home with some Antibiotics and pain killers. He did not move or drink/eat anything for about 36 hours, by this time we had been back to the vet and they gave him an anti nauseum injection whihc did not help. Tuesday morning after deciding if no improvement we would put him to rest, he seemed to perk up and almost back to normal. Much weaker but still quite alert.
Devizes, 20th Jan
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Booked up in the Morning to take a trip to Devizes, arrived as dusk found a nice spot near the dog walk.
In the morning Geza for a walk along the canal away from Devizes up to a Pub but a little early for us, so just headed back to the van.  Got the bikes out and took off to Devizes, many locks to pass and a nice cafe stop (cash only).
That evening we had a meal at the local pub, good enough but nothing special would eat again but not special.
Clear dry day, would go back