Susie’s email No. 21
Hello & Greetings to All from the U.K.
Sometime in June, 2014.
Before I forget, I must tell you all that my fabulous check list, failed again,!!!!!!!! Nothing to serious, but MR. FIX IT, stepped up to the challenge, and all was soon better after borrowing a drill, and finding some screws. We were trundling down the motorway in Belgium and had to brake quickly as a car pulled in front of us, next heard was a terrible bang ( we’re used to this sound now!!!!!!! ) expletives -and ? WHAT WAS THAT !!!!! I turned around to find the CUTLERY DRAW had shot forward and was hanging in a most peculiar position with the front of the draw dangling and its contents waiting to spread everywhere (its a rather large heavy draw) so I took my life in my hands, flipped my seat belt, carefully found the DUCT tape and very quickly plastered the draw back into shape while balancing H.H.’s movements on the road underway!!!!!! We couldn’t stop, so back to square one with the list again, more revising !!!!!
Anyway, here we are in England, and so far we have been really lucky with our Farm stays, we’ve met some wonderful people and their animals.
These are called C.L. sites = Certified Locations, vetted by the Caravan & Camping Club (this would be fabulous back in Australia), you camp in a Farmers field, they are only allowed to have 5 pitches, they must provide water (a tap) and chemical toilet disposal and for extra, power if available.
One we recently stayed on H. H. got himself bogged (it had nothing to do with, WE PICKED THE WRONG SPOT - WE DID’NT KNOW THAT? -THAT GRASS !!!!!!! WAS CALLED BOG GRASS,) and the water table was very high etc. poor H.H. tried his hardest to get us out but failed ! The wheels were spinning, we had to get the Farmer, they had already bogged 3 tractors themselves the week before, a little old 4 wheel drive Land Rover pulled us out, and off we went, adding getting bogged to the long list of misdemeanours.
Where we were camped, was an Estate called “Trigon”, its on 3,000 acres - unbelievably old money, and the owners very proper. These C.L. sites are economical for us as its High Season in the camping world and crazy prices for Summer.
Unfortunately we could only stop very quickly at Brighton Pier, parking is always a problem for motorhomes, there just aren’t any, so on we go. We stopped at a Park & Ride in Portsmouth and went to see the D-Day re-enactment on the foreshore and watch the RED ARROWS, The RAF aerobatics team, like our ROULETTES an amazing show of flying skills, their routine is spectacular, you didn’t now where to look first, 9 planes in the show, incredible, hopefully we will get to see some Air Shows while in the U.K.
I’m jumping the gun here, as we are moving on every day or two, I can’t bore you with everywhere we are, or you’ll scream !!! and delete me, let me tell you - there is no such thing as a bad/uglyl coastline, but I do laugh (to myself ) that they say they have award winning beaches, best in the world - it makes you very proud of ours!!!!! Sandy, white and clean.
Portland is where they had the Sailing for the 2012 Olympics and Plymouth Harbour is wonderful, Falmouth is home to the worlds 3rd largest natural deep water harbour, we parked H.H. on a hill and decided to walk down to the docks, we could hear music wafting up from far below and decided to follow the sound, we came upon the International Sea Shanty Festival in full swing and also the Falmouth Classic Yacht race, in August they will be hosting the Tall Ships Regatta with over 40 vessels from around the world, the magnificent & mighty square rigged ships. Actually every town that ends with a “mouth” has been stunning.
We travelled to The Lizard, the most southerly part of the UK, not Land’s End as we thought!
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