benivanadventures

Wilmcote, Warwickshire. Friday 24th May Day 1 This weekend has been planned for a few weeks, as soon as Archie had had his final vaccinations, Adele had finished work we were off, instead of taking the motorway down towards Stratford upon Avon we took the A roads from Kidderminster via Redditch and Alcester. We arrived at the East Worcestershire DA meet at Wilmcote just after 6pm, we set up and had a quick tea of homemade lasagna with mixed green salad.                                      The main reason for the trip was to start socialising Archie our 13 week old Patterjack pup, it was his first trip away from home and his first in the campervan, neither of us really knew what to expect. After tea we went for a short walk around the camp field, we had not been out long when it started to rain so returned quickly to the van, Archie is not keen on rain. After drying him off we set up his new t...

Friday 22nd March Day 1 The alarm went off at 6.15am, we had planned to set off before 9.00am, everything had been packed and topped up so it was a relative straight forward morning. We left at 9.30, I don’t really know what took the time, perhaps it was the endless list of things Adele reeled off, what Luc had to do or had not to do, it was like a school boy in front of the head mistress and like being at school, I don’t think he was really listening. The trip to the motorway was not as straight forward as usual as the main road had been closed for weeks for road works so we had to take a detour of about 15 minutes but once on the motorway all was good until as normal we hit the M25 which was, as ever, very slow moving. Once on the M20 towards Folkestone I mis-read the road signs and joined the freight lane on the motorway travelling at the mighty speed of 30MPH, the lanes were cordoned off for lorry checks although no-one was checking any thing. We arrived at Le Shuttle with...