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Anchors Away

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Wednesday 27th August Day 1 Blue Anchor Bay Finished work and after a quick shower we were on the road, Adele had the found a THS in Somerset at Blue Anchor Bay just up the road from Minehead, the journey down was fine, just the normal M5 traffic, we arrived at Home Farm rally field and were met by the stewards of the South West Region, we booked in for three nights although we were hoping to stay until Sunday but the THS finishes strangely on Saturday, not to worry we will fine somewhere to stay for one more night. We parked up, had a cup of tea before taking Archie for a walk returning for nibbles and a drink before supper. We had a really relaxing evening reading and listening to music before bed. Thursday 28th August Day 2 Woke at 6am, after a very peaceful night, took Archie for a walk on the beach and almost got cut off by the tide, the end of the beach had a rock sea defence that we couldn't climb up so back from where we came, just making it. Back to the van for breakfast, ...
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Northumberland 250

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Sunday 20th July Day 1 After a leisurely start to the morning we finally left home 10.30, we filled up, well almost filled up with fuel, I stopped at £99.00, then off to check the tyre pressures only to find the machine was out of order so didn't bother, the tyres are normally fine, we hit the motorway and made slow progress along the M5 onto the M6, the weather was appalling torrential rain all the way up, when we hit the lake it was raining in biblical proportions. We arrived at our first nights stop at Bolbec Manor campsite as the skies began to clear, Bolbec is a small independent site with about 25 or so pitches and overlooks the Northumberland countryside over Derwent water. We had a cup of tea and a relax, it had taken 6 hours to get here with a stop at the services for half an hour. I took Archie for a walk before returning to the van for tea, tonight was a curry bought from home to make things easy. After tea we sat read a little and wrote the diary and listened to some mu...
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