We arrive at our UK tour first stop, Morn Hill CAMC site, Winchester, on Thursday January 5th.
One of our girls and her partner live close by, and we are really looking forward to catching up and spending some time with them in the historic city of winchester .
After stopping to fill up with gas at marquismotorhomes in Exeter, we have a good run down to our first stop at Morn Hill. It’s always nervy occasion on our first trip out for a while. The van has been pretty much idle for the past ten months, so it’s a relief to find that, apart from some weird electrical thing, everything is working as it should!
Back at Winchester
Winchester is lovely! We get the bus into town on the Friday morning, intending to have a nice lunch, a couple of beers, and then, head back to the van for dinner, we visited the cathedral the last time we were there so gave it a miss this time Life after Hillhead . Fast forward to 5:30, we are still in the Crown & Anchor crownandanchorwinchester , and we call our lovely girl, and her beau, to see if they fancied meeting us for dinner in town! After a lovely couple of hours at the local Spoons theoldgaolhouse , nicely full of food and alcohol, we get back to the van about 9:00ish for a bit of R&R and a movie!
We get the bus in again on Saturday and, this time, stick to the plan for lunch at the Royal Oak royaloakwinchester and a couple of beers, before saying a (slightly teary!) goodbye to our family and heading back to the van.
Next stop
We are now due to move on to Henley on Thames, where the plan involves walks along the river, and more of the same!
As we have said, whilst we are working for CAMC we will not be doing any site reviews but I would say there is a bus stop just down the road which is really handy for Winchester. Stagecoach buses have capped ALL their fares at £2.00, which is fantastic…use public transport folks… you know it makes sense!
On a side note the best upgrade we have to both of our vans so far has been fitting a refillable gas system gaslow (other systems are available!) . It cost us less than £14.00 to fill up 0ur 11kg bottle, and Marquis are trialling it across their network nationally. The initial outlay isn’t cheap, but the savings in the long run are huge! Definitely worthy of consideration!
Well, that,s all for now, we will let you know how we get on at Henley.
Safe travels everyone!
Much love
Mags & KevX