With the grey clouds of the day before melted away and the sun shining down on Wiltshire, a afternoon outing to Lacock Village/Abbey a place never visited by us , with a wealth of television and movies filmed there time to hit the National Trust card again Arriving at the car park yet another Land…
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Great Chalfield Manor
With the half term in full swing time to use the National Trust membership and visit some historical places and not allow Lily to vegetate on Minecraft. So Chalfield Manor was chosen only a short distance from our home, I have cycled past it many times and after reading that Wolf Hall was filmed there…
Day out in Bradford on Avon Wiltshire
The annual Lions club family fun day was held in Bradford on Avon yesterday 30th May, a great day out,with something for all,car boot sale for all those that love a bargain,fairground fun for the dads,oh i mean kids and the classic car show where most of my time was spent ,rude not to. Some…
bank hoilday and half term
Going to try a bit of spur of the moment traveling next week,the plan is to travel to National Trust places in our area if we decide whilst out and about to spend a night camping we will weather permitting. i will post a review etc of all places visited, the list at the moment…
Gower Peninsula
With Kitty packed for another weekend away, Friday the 13th of May arrived would this be unlucky. With Lily picked up from school and the final packing done and the final decision made on which teddy bears would be allowed to travel with us, Sarah,Lily and I set off on a lovely sunny Friday afternoon…
Return to Wales
With the weekend rapidly approaching a return to Wales to complete the abandon trip of the May bank holiday weekend is in order With the alternator upgrade complete ,and the yellow wellies packed 😉 the Gower Peninsula is hopefully only a 2hr drive away. Campsite is booked for 2 nights, staying at , the…
120a alternator upgrade
Have i found the answer, going to upgrade to a Britpart 120A alternator from Mcdonald Automotive. Running Lights,heater and trying to charge all the other gadgets one must have these days was just too much for the standard alternator,which is 45a i think not 100% on that.
Welsh Valleys
May bank holiday weekend decided to pop over to Wales for a two Night camping trip (Friday to Sunday),set off at six o’clock Friday evening to hopefully miss the mass M4/M5 parking lot just outside of Bristol well this paid off only to be scuppered at the approach to the Seven bridge paying kiosks 30…
Cornwall 2015
This is the 2015 camping trip to Cornwall,this was the last trip of the 19j engine it drank to much fuel
France/Italy 2016 part 3
Part 3 of the France/Italy 2016 adventure ,the journey from Carcassone and the Pyrenees campsite La Serre was a boring motorway drive to Sanremo Italy ,it wasn’t the plan but needs must as Sarah my partner had to go back to the UK for work, so had to leave a week early and fly back…