benivanadventures

Wet, Wet, Wet -  But Didn't Dampen our Enjoyment Restonguet Weir Monday  26th October Having packed the van over the weekend there shouldn't have been a problem getting off early, as it happened by the time we had had a spot of breakfast it was 9.00am  and we still had to get fuel. We were on the road by 9.30 so not that bad, the traffic on the M5 was quite busy until we had got past Avonmouth, the trip down the M5 was fine and we stopped at Exeter just after 12.00 for a break and a spot of lunch, Cornish pasty which has recently become a tradition. The rest of the journey was fine apart from the intermittent torrential down pours especially going across the moors, the wipers struggled to clear the screen. By the time we had arrived at Tregunwith the sun had come out, if only briefly. The site was a CCC cs site, a hedged field with EHU, CDP, water, recycling and waste, there are showers and toilets but these were closed due to covid-19. We parked up after a litt...

A Short Trip To The South-West October 2020 Monday 5th October. As Adele has been laid off due to her school closing because of Covid-19 we thought we would take the opportunity and have a quick trip away, we were looking at North Devon / East Cornwall, after a couple of phone calls to get a site we came across Old Orchard View, a Camping & Caravaning Club CL at Broadwoodwidger who had space so booked a couple of nights. We topped up with fuel and gas and eventually started at about 11.00am,the trip down the M5 was uneventful, we stopped off at Exeter services for a pasty for lunch then carried on down the A30, we arrived just before 3.00pm. Old Orchard View CCC cs - Broadwoodwidger The site is tiered with all five of the pitches looking out over the countryside, we are right on the border of the two counties so we are not quite sure if we are facing Devon or Cornwall, which ever, even with the mists closing in the views are lovely. We eventually decided on pitch 5, water and g...

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...

Brecon Beacons & Beyond August 2020 We had been planning our trip for a couple of weeks, a short tour of Cumbria, well specifically The Lake District, however, we had become a little concerned with the amount of tourists descending on the area, so decided to go to Wales. The River Usk Thursday 20th  August We are getting a little laid back with our trips out in the van, we hadn’t planned to leave early as we wanted to see Luc off to work and Charlotte off on her trip up to Burnley, Burnley I hear you ask, theres another story. We left home at about 10am, the plan if you can call it a plan was to take a steady drive out to Brecon in Powys, we have passed through many, many times but not stopped, all was going well until we got to Burford where signs on the main A456 said road closed ahead, now me being me carried on to find, well yes, the road was closed, we had to turn around and head back to Tenbury and take the back road to Leominster. We made it to Brecon at about 12.00...