benivanadventures

Saturday 22nd October Day 1 We  woke early, well to be fair, Adéle woke very early about 5.45am, I rolled over and went back to sleep. At 7.30 the bedroom light came on and I was told its time to get up, in fairness we had quite a bit to do before hitting the road. We put the last few things in the van, took Izzy out for a quick walk before setting off, first job was to get fuel, cheapest around was a t Tescos so that was the first £75.00 and it didn't get the gauge to 3/4 full, next was Aldi to get another bottle of their orange Irish liquer, Adéle wasn't away long but came back with a hazelnut and caramel version as well, next head towards the M5 to fill up with LPG at the BP station in Bromsgrove, we needed more than I expected almost 17 litres at 99.9p per litre. Now for the motorway, we had only gone a matter of a couple of hundred metres and we were caught in roadworks, once through those and we came across a road closure so that's the first...

Friday 30th September Day 1 Pitched up at Riverside Caravan Park - W & H DA Meet Now that I have finally got my schedule sorted at work we have the opportunity to get away weekends, Adele finished her PA work and we made the short drive Down the A449 Shatterford Road to Bridgnorth in Shropshire. The Worcestershire & Herefordshire DA had a meet planned at the Riverside Caravan Park however, it had been raining heavierly all last night so may have been cancelled due to water logged field, we need not have worried. We arrived around 5.30pm and booked in with the stewards, paid our £10 PN and drove down to the bottom off the field besides the river, it was still raining. Having set up I took Izzy for a short walk to check the state of the river Severn, it was well down so no need to panic, when we got back to the van Adèle had started tea, a beef stir-fry tonight followed by some profiteroles. After clearing up it was backgammon time, a good game, down to the last stone, I picked u...