Jeremy Hanks
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Aug 24
Eden Project (22nd August)
Up early today and set off for St Austell and the Eden Project, lots to do and we all had a good day here, the Eden Project is significantly larger than I was expecting, and very cleverly placed so that you can only see it once you’re in and through the ticket barrier. The price …
Aug 24
Adventure 3 – bits and pieces of Cornwall.. (21st August)
Hello!! So here we are, it’s about 2 o’clock on the 21st of August, the van is ready and we’re just leaving for Okehampton which is on the way to Cornwall, we picked a BritStop (number 12) to stay at and are on our way.. The journey was pleasant, April drove to Ringwood where we …
Aug 10
Adventure 2 – Bristol Balloon Festival (9th August)
Saturday morning, up early and the van is packed very quickly, there’ll be four of us this time so an extra set of clothes, one extra duvet and a full fridge. We left at about 08:30 and headed for a Camping and Caravanning Club Certificated Site called Mendip View. One stop in a services on …
Aug 05
Day 5 – 5th August
A, again, very quiet nights sleep, we rose at about 8am and had a small bite to eat and headed for Winchester and the Intech Science Center. We all love this place as we have been here before, lots of hands on science for Toby to play with; he even made a tornado! Theo was …
Aug 04
Day 4 (3rd August)
Well, last night showed us what motor homers have been keeping quiet, the ability to stop “anywhere” (pretty much) and enjoy vista such as the one that we awoke to was something I’m tempted to keep schtum about. The view that welcomed us from slumber We awoke and sat and stared, agape, it was …
Aug 02
Day 3 (2nd August) – Our First Wild One
We were awoken in the morning by a cacophony of sounds. Mostly the cockerels, there were three of them, two of which sounded very fine, the third however got 10 out if 10 for effort but instead of a resounding cock-a-doodle-doo, was more of a ‘bwaark’.. Alongside these three was a Kookaburra which made you …
Aug 01
Day 2 (1st August)
We packed the motor home away, threw the rubbish in the bins provided by our hosts and set on our way, hoping to make it to Stonehenge before the tickets we booked online kicked in.. A few losses of mobile signal and a few wrong guesses sent us on a bit of a wild goose …
Jul 31
First night away (31st July)
With a days work out of the way and the motorhome all packed and ready (April and Toby worked very hard on this) we set off. We’d joined wildcamping.co.uk and downloaded a list of POIs for Google Earth and also had joined BritStops who sent us a very detailed book of places we could stay. …
Jul 29
Goodwood Trundle Car Park for tea
And so it was, April decided tea was to be eaten on the Trundle at Goodwood, so we packed some grub and headed off.. Parked up, need to learn how to level it properly!! Lovely view out of the door!! And the front window.. We had bought a kite with us for Tobes to run …
Jul 23
New Blog..
Right, We’re soon off on a new adventure. We’ve just bought a Dethleffs Globetrotter Motorhome, ditched the caravan,┬átow car, ceased being “tuggers” and are going to log our adventures here. Schmazin’ So we’re off on the 31st July to Exmoor National Park with a few stops on the way and back for four nights as …