Holidays when sumer does finally cumen in

This is a bit of a wallow in nostalgia.( Funny word. made me doubt my spelling!) It will come to a sudden end as the sun has started to shine regularly and there are things to do outside like stain the decking and sit under my new parasol and have coffee and read my Tablet (named Philip)

On the way to Wastwater, Cumbria. - that's my car known as "blue bus" on the right!

Those who managed to read my blog Sumer is icumen in before it was vapourised wiill recall some rather splendid Cumbrian views. I'm not going to try to recreate that. Let's have a look at some more views and Caravan Club sites.
I don't have a big enough car to tow, so I rely on Number One son to take the caravan away. He doesn't trust his car much although the weights etc are fine, so we take it to a site that has storage and leave it for the season . For the last couple of years it has been at Carsington Water near Ashbourne, Derbyshire

This was taken from the rear of the van looking through the trees to the reservoir

This is Blackwall Plantation. It was almost like camping in the wild but the facilities were great. It only took an hour from home so we went quite often.

This is before the site filled up but there is always plenty of room

Recently the site was updated with a splendid washroom, better facilities for familes and disabled. Great site and so many places to go to. In Cromford just down the road they are using some of Abraham Darby's dark satanic mills to make a heritage centre with studios, antiques etc. It' s a lovely place if you don't want to travel too far and Carsington Water a short walk away with bird watching, sailing and an exhibition by Severn Trent - hands on - and  of  course great play parks.We've nowhere near exhausted the places to visit but thought we might try somewhere nearer the sea - so we are now at Rutland Camping and Caravan site near Oakham.

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This however is still about 2 1/2 hours from Hunstanton. That's what happens when you live in Middle England.I've only been to stay once and that was from Easter Monday for 3 days and it was bitterly cold with the snow still lying on the fields and roadside. I did have frozen water one morning. When I arrived the site was nearly full but by Tuesday evening there were only 5 vans on an enormous field the size of 2 football fields. It was quite frightening at night when the wind got up;little light on the field so taking Buffy for a comfort walk about 2 o'clock in the morning was not nice to put it mildly!.

Signing off now. I've acquired a lunch date with a friend from school many years ago. So i'm now going to take my grand daughters to school and then spend a few hours glamming up! (not really)
Until the next time
Beth