benivanadventures

France October ’24 Friday 25th October Day 1 Up early, 6.15am, Adele had a shift at work and would be back by 9.30 so we would be off by 10am. Well that was the plan, I packed the last of the things in the van then headed off to get fuel and check the tyre pressures, there are only two fuel stations around us whose air pumps will go up to the 5.5 bar needed so off to the other side of town to Sainsbury’s, there was a chap doing his before me so I waited, he kept going back and forth then after about 5 minutes left, my turn, set the machine to 5 bar but it was determined to take more air out of the tyres than it was putting in, I can now see why the previous guy was messing about now. The next station, Tescos was more successful but they didn’t have the premium diesel that I wanted so on to the Shell garage by home. This messing around took nearly an hour so Adele was waiting for me when I got back. We eventually left 10.20, but left us plenty of time for our 4:18 train. The jo...

Saturday 24th August Day -1 We don’t normally start our diary before our travels but this trip is a little different, we have originally thought that we would start our holiday last Thursday but we had the funeral of Adeles uncle to attend on Friday, by this morning we were still packing the van for a trip to Pembrokeshire, the weather forecast came on the news that the west of the country has had and will be getting rain and lots of it, we started to think if we were making the right choice, of course with a campervan or MoHo you can always change or modify your plans assuming you have not already booked. The weather on the south coast looked better but we visited Dorset earlier in the year, so we looked at the South East coast, we found a THS at Sea Palling. We texted the number on the Camping & Caravanning Club App and although late they texted back with availability. Decision made. We would take our late summer break in Norfolk. Sunday 25th August Day 1 We woke early...