Second trip away 31st Aug &1st September

Following our first weekend away we couldn't wait to go again! so two weeks later we were off again. This time we decided to travel north in to the next county Lincolnshire and headed for Mablethorpe.

Again we found a lovely little campsite West End Farm, Great Carlton. This time we were prepared with our hook up extension, electric kettle and toaster!  Once again we had a good nights sleep and set off the next day to explore Mablethorpe.

Our Van made a friend in the car park!

After chatting over breakfast  to the owner of the campsite and his partner who owned an Orange VW Van, we set off to find the beach.
After a rather "hairy" long very narrow rode with ditches either side we found a fabulous beach, with miles of sand and what we think (after tasting it) was an abundance of samphire growing.

Oh! I forgot to mention we also bought an awning, a usual purchase from ebay, but as things are always meant to be ...the person selling it only lived 8 miles from the campsite, so after many, many slightly strange phone calls on the way we finally rendezvoused and collected the latest thing from the "things to get for the van" list.
Another very successful lovely weekend in our Van :)

Our first weekend sleeping in our Van 17th &18th August

At last!! we could get away in our Van and test it out. Packed with what we thought would be all we needed we set off. We were only going a short distance to Cambridgeshire (dropping our son off at Papworth on the way)
The first thing we did was make a pact with each other that this was a "fact finding mission" the first time out things were bound to go a little wrong but we were not going to have any "hissy fits" just take it all in our stride and learn as we go!

We found a lovely little campsite Roseberry Tourist Park at Willingham and the first thing we found was the electric hook up we had was not long enough to reach the socket..... no worries at all the campsite owners let us borrow an extension....this was the first thing to go on our " things to get for the van list".

We set up and brewed up!

Our first meal cooked in our van went down a treat and with a couple of bottles of San Miguel we were ready for our first sleep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Although we both woke early we had had a great nights sleep, cup of tea in bed followed by bacon and eggs for breakfast made our first night in the van a great success .....bring on the rest!!

A very important ride! 10th August

Friday 10th August. The first important trip our van had to do was take our son to is wedding! Neil spent several hours cleaning and polishing and then trimmed with a white ribbon and bow, our van transported us all in style for the Big Day!