benivanadventures

Clun, Shropshire September 2019 Less than an hour from home but could be a thousand miles away Friday 20th September We left Kidderminster just after 3.00pm and was on the Camping & Caravanning Club CS (certified site) just after 4.00pm had tea in the evening sunshine, it's very quite here, just bird song and the distant sounds of cattle, being latter in the year the light fades quickly and it became very dark, we are not used to not having street lights on. Saturday 21st September Woke 8.00am to blue skies and sunshine, feeling very warm for the time of year, had full english breakfast then drove into Clun, parking was difficult so ended up parking just outside the village and walked in,Clun is a quaint village set on the bend of the river Clun and overlooked by the spectacular castle ruins, built in the 11th century. We walked up to the castle now owned by National Heritage and is free to enter, its a great place to explore. After spendi...

Tour de Yorkshire August 2019 This was to be our first touring holiday in the beni, our previous trips had all been based in one area and staying at one campsite, so we were really looking forward to touring, we had never been to Yorkshire before so we did lots of research on the areas we wanted to see, the plan was to start in the west in the dales area and move easterly to the coast. Monday 5th August We hit the road mid-morning traveling up the M6, traffic was quite heavy but we made good progress, stopping off at Crowden for lunch then headed towards Holmfirth, we wanted to have a look around this 'last of the summer wine' town but found it very busy and nowhere to park so carried on to Hebbdon Bridge, a small market town in the Upper Calder Valley sitting on the Calder river and the Rochdale canal, as time was getting on we decided to leave exploring Hebbdon until tomorrow and made our way to Widdop reservoir for our first night wild camp. we parked ...