Jacqui & Neil PM
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Arrived at Saint-Gengoux-le-National aire, very nice right on a cycle track route vert, near a town with bars and cafes and shops, there are toilet, and waste facilities.  Electric and fresh water not available when we were there broken.
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Arrived and parked up at the Villa very nice entrance road was a bit tight due to bushes either side of the lane, but otherwise great.
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Arrived evening at Fidjcamping, open but no one around fgolowed the insturctyiomn outside offoce and found a spot with the 2nd most powerful water point.  Site appears to be undergoing some renovation.
Pleasant spot would use again bit tight to negotiate the on site road and pitches but once on hardstanding and most facilities, proper MH service point.
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Supposed to get the late Ferry crossing to Calais via Dover and DFDS, but due to French passport control, Dover Port Authority and UKHighways ended up starnded along with thousands of others on the M20.
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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.
Set off Friday 1pm to Freemantle Park farm CL (RG26 5UD, Hannington, Hampshire) for 2 nights (12pn with EHU) 31st July to 2nd Aug with Ali and Julie to see the Highclere Battle Prom concert on the Staurday evening. We had a reasonable journey (only 50 odd miles) arrving after Ali had just setup.
The site access was a challenge with single track roads unsuitable for HGVs all over the place, we successfully followed the directions after one turn around, but Ali came in down the unsuitable route apparently not something he is going to repeat. The worst for us was the last couple of hundred yards which involved a stretch between high hedges about 2.5m apart (van is 2.3m).
Had a meal outside Friday evening, awoke refreshed. I decide to christen the shower, which worked very well although the water pressure is a bit low.
Had a BBQ off for lunch cooking all the meat we had brought along with salad and coleslaw. Set off for the Proms about 15:40 arriving about 16:10 (doors opened at 16:00) the carpark was probably about 2/3rds full already, setup table and chairs and awaited the entertainment (people watching). Best bt the Spitfire flypast over Highclere and the setting Sun, the 1812 and some of the truly awful singing.
Very good weekend
 
MR A BROWN and MRS S LENNOX
Freemantle Park Farm
Cottington Hill
Hannington
Tadley
RG26 5UD
Please contact the CL direct to book
Telephone: 01635 298296
Email: mary.brown298@gmail.com
gps location for Freemantle Park Farm campsite
GPS Co-ordinates: 51.304030662610955 / -1.2429571151733398
Ocknell, booked on the Thursday, left 2:20pm on the friday, arrived and bedded in by 5pm, G&T sunk by 5:30, off for a dog walk. One more pre dinner G&T then a dinner of Chicken Kiev, Potato Croquettes and roasted veg, with cheese breads. Bottle of red, v.nice dog walk followed by Bread and Butter pudding with Vanilla Ice cream, satisfying day now finishing the red.
Ocknell very nice not crowded and it is a dry Bank Holiday.
Tomorrow we plan breakfast and a qalk to the Sir Walter Tyrell pub, 2.5 miles as the crow flies, expecting about 3.5 to be registered.
Couple have setup next to us ish, very large tent enourmous thing.
Just purchased a wifi booster/range extender for the MH.  After looking at the offerings from the 2 main providers at the Rallies that we have been to, MotorhomeWifi and WifiOnBoard, decided to risk it and Do It Myself (DIM, hmmm!!).  Nothing wrong with either of the offerings I saw but the prices seemed quite high, a basic system would cost anything from 130 to 160 pounds for just wifi and that included compromises, could be up as high as 350.  Of the 2 options, WifiOnBoard is probably more flexible antennas, 3/4G etc.., but MotorhomeWifi is the easier to use and setup with a much better interface therefore possibly more reliable.
When I looked at what they did and how, basically they had combined the following:
So, I have just bought from Amazon:
How it Works
The AWUS036NHR via the supplied Antenna picks up the external Wifi connection, this plugs into the Alfa R36 via a USB cable, the Alfa R36 is powered either via 230v or 12v connection.  The Alfa R36 provides a wifi and lan cable connection for my devices in the MH.
In theory this should provide similar functionality to the WifiOnBoard and MotorhomeWifi systems and if necessary allow me to use any 3/4G dongle to replace the AWUS036NHR if wifi is not available and mobile data is.
There are YouTube videos to demonstrate the above setup and driver updates available, so it should be a easy enough.  Will be setting up at home and then testing at Malvern and Cannock.
We shall see?