Well…………’That’s All Folks!’
We have strimmed the last pitch. Kev has cut his last hedge. The last leaf has been blown. We have collected the last bin bag and we have checked in our last member…………….for this year!!
Kev & I are back at CAMC Hillhead in March for a FULL 10 month season, finishing on 6th January 2023.
Many, many thanks to our amazing team of colleagues; to our new friends and to all of the members who have stayed with us on site. You have all made our first 12 weeks with the club truly memorable and assured us that this was the best decision that we have ever made,
So what now?
What, we hear you both ask, are you both going to do for the next four months?
Well, we’re glad that you asked.
If you’re sitting comfortably, we will explain our plan…………………………..
We leave Hillhead on November 5th and travel straight up the M5 to another CAMC site at Cirencester for a couple of nights R & R and a catch up with Gill & Steve who started with us at Hillhead and are moving to Cirencester for two months as Winter Wardens and then in March, onto CAMC Exbridge Lakeside for the season. We’ll really miss these two………..we all seemed to hit it off from the get go and their dog, Olga, was Kev’s best buddy for the summer! Must have been the bar crisps!
Leaving Cirencester, we’ll trek up to the other club’s site at Delamere Forest for a week. Here, we’ll be able to catch up with DD, Meg. We are going to meet up in Chester for lunch and go on to spend a night in her flat, with a few beers thrown in to boot.
Back to Wales
On 15th November, we’ll travel South to CAMC Pembrey, via our storage unit, to have a pre-Christmas get together with DD, Emma; DS, Jack; DDIL, Ebonie and DGD, Elva. Really looking forward to that as we have hardly heard from them since the wedding in July.
Before we go back over the bridge into England, we plan to stop off at CAMC Tredegar Park, Newport. My twin sister, Jude, lives not too far away so hopefully we’ll be able to have time together here too.
Leaving Newport and Wales behind for a while, we’ll travel south to yet another CAMC site at Black Knowl in The New Forest. This is the closest site that we could get (that is actually open all year) to DD, Ellen and her BF, Pete. Ellen has lived in some ‘hard to get to places….Versailles and Turin among others! Hopefully, we’ll be able to get together a couple of times before we have to travel to Portsmouth for a appointment on 28th November.
Its been a long time coming………….
On November 28th, we’ll head for Portsmouth and a date with Brittany Ferries! I’ve lost count how many times we have postponed or altered this booking – but not this time baby! Kev informs me that we are on ticket issue 14 by all accounts! They are not going to have to issue number 15!
We are due on the 08.15 sailing and land in Caen at around 15.00 and start driving south. We have no real plan as such. Kev has a route in mind and we only have two sites booked in the whole 77 day tour of Western France and Spain.
Spain for Christmas
We are booked on Camping Cabopino, between Marbella and Fuengirola from 17th December to 7th January. So we have three weeks to get there and five weeks to get back for our ferry on 12th February
We will be making use of our Park4Night and Search for Sites apps, along with the ‘All the Aires’ books from Vicarious. There is a very rough route / itinerary in mind, based on things to see and places to go that have been on our radar for eons.
The route home
Heading North(ish), we plan on hugging the Spanish coast all the way to Perpignan and coming back up to Caen more inland than the journey South. We’ll take in Oradour Sur Glane, Perigueux and Sarlat la Caneda en route. We plan on finishing up in our go-to Normandy town of Ste Mere Eglise for a stop off with our old friends at Un Monde Sans Faim.
Forthcoming blog updates
We will get back into the habit of regular blog updates as we go – promise!
I also need to get up to date with some blogs we’ve started and not published. Namely our 10 counties tour of England and our upgrade of Lulu that happened about two weeks before we left Hillhead.
Untill then dear reader, stay safe & happy travels.
Mags, Kev & Marley
xxx