Just A Couple of Old Dinosaurs - Dorset February 2023
Its the first 'proper' trip of the year, our first choice was to go to Somerset around Brean Downs but the site was full, others were not open so after a rethink we booked the Camping & Caravanning Club site at Charmouth in Dorset, right in the middle of the Jurassic Coast. Wednesday 14th February The plan was to finish work at 2pm, a quick shower and off but as we know our timings never go to plan, but we did leave by 3pm, first stop fuel which had gone up 2p a litre over night (£151.9) The trip down the M5 was uneventful until we approached our exit at Taunton where we came across stationary traffic, we were held up for about 15 minute due to an earlier accident. Travelling across country on unfamiliar roads in the dark and raining was a little stressful but arrived at the site at Monkton Wild just after 6.15pm, the reception was closed but a notice in the window told us our pitch number, number 2. This was literally down the driveway, it was now hammering it down, par...