benivanadventures

Eardisland September 2020 We tided up with one eye looking out for the lone gunman. Friday 18th September The van was packed and ready to go, I was just waiting for Adele to get back from work and we would be off. We were on the road before 5.00pm for what should have been just over an hours drive to the camping & caravaning club cs, when we booked we were given a different post code to the one in the book, however, we got lost. Getting to the village wasn't a problem but finding the site was, we drove up and down the road it was on but couldn't find the site, we eventually pulled on to the village hall car park and checked, we had put the post code in that was in the c&cc book rather than the one the owners had given us. Off we went only  two minutes  away, wrong, still couldn't see a sign for the site, adele phone the owner who gave us more instructions, we had to go back through the village, over a bridge that is a bridge, over a bridge that doesn't look like...

Stiperstone Hill Shropshire September 2020 An Early Start.. Sunday 13th September We had recently read in one of our magazines about Stiperstones Hill in Shropshire, rocky outcrop from the Ice Age. So as it was only a day trip we had an early start to make sure of a parking spot for the benni, we had a lovely ride out and arrived with only a hand full of cars on the car park. There was a voluntary contribution of £3.00 for the days car park which we thought was great value but you did have to pay via a phone app which may stop some people paying. Parked up first job of the day was a coffee and breakfast, as we were in the van breakfast was a full english to set us up for the hike ahead. The ridge was formed 480 million years ago during the ice age, a mass of scree and rocky tors rising to 1759 ft above sea level, we donned our walking boots as the reports said it could be hard under foot in places, which as it happened was good advice. The walk is a steady rise, not too steep, the path...