benivanadventures

Monday 5 July 2021 Day 1   After a late night finish at work yesterday I wasn’t expecting to get up early but as with any trip we were up early and excited. Vera was all ready, food and clothes packed, fuel and water topped up, so after a coffee and a bite to eat for breakfast we were on the road to meet Norman & Jean who had come up last night and stopped at a small CL site at Romsley. We were all on the road towards the M6 for the trip up north, the radio put out a traffic announcement that there were long queues at J11 due to an earlier accident so we decided to cut across country and get on the motorway at Stafford. The M6 was as busy as usual but we made good time and stopped at a services for a bite of lunch then continued up to our first nights stop over at Clapham, Yorkshire at little out of our way but we wanted to call in and see the Ribbleshead Viaduct. The Camping & Caravanning Club THS was in a great spot with wonderful views out across the Yorkshire dales, wat...

We had planned to return to Eardisland but not so soon, our good friends, Norman and Jean were planning a weekend in the Wye Valley so, not missing a chance to meet up arranged to meet half way-ish at Tadpole Field, a Camping & Caravanning Club CS site in Eardisland. Thursday 10th June 2021 We normally leave Wednesdays for our mid-week trips but agreed to meet up today as Norman & Jean were booked into Bracelands in the Wye Valley over the weekend and they could then tag the two stays together. We followed our usual routine by loading the van with essentials, gin, tonic, food, drink, wine, did I say gin & tonic the night before we had a little water left in the tank so didn'y bother to fill up as we could do that when we arrived on site. We left home about 10.30 to make the fairly straight forward drive to Herefordshire in time for lunch. It wasn't long before I had realised that I had forgotten to top up the windscreen washers and that there wasn't as much dies...