Caravaning

Time for an update on our Caravan Road Trip 2014.

Quick recap first. Started out from home on July 17^th and headed for Rolfs Lake where we set up home for 11 days in the car park curtesy of John & Pauline Bennett. Where I fished Wez Hillier’s weekend event and the MD’s Pairs and opener the following weekend whist Zelma and Andris visited the ice rink, went shopping, swimming and took a trip to London via the Oxford Tube bus service where they rode the London Eye and visited Madame Tusaurds.

Caravan Pitched at Rolfs Lake Car Park.

We then left Rolfs on Monday 28^th heading for Yew Tree Farm in the Far Forest nr Kidderminster a new adventure for us as we have not stayed there before, as in previous years on tour we stayed at Chipping Norton, Burford etc on our route back to Wales and ending at Merixton Farm nr Tenby where we meet up with friends for our final week or so of our summer holiday and road trip. Imagine our delight when Yew Tree Farm turned out to be a wonderful campsite, clean well maintained pitches, nice toilet and shower block with laundry facilities plus the site had electric hook ups so no need for the generator and solar panels. These might not sound like much but when you’re touring in a caravan for 6 weeks they become luxuries. Moving day is always hard work, after striking camp loading up the caravan travelling to the new site then unpacking everything and pitching the awning and tent, we were all ready for a chip shop supper and an early night.

From our base here at Kidderminster we visited a lot of places around Birmingham and the midlands, including Ludlow, Stourport, Hereford, Stratford on Avon, Bridgenorth, Bewdley and visited with long time family friends near Stourbridge and Dudley.

We were joined by my Parents on Thursday Aug 14^th who spent a couple of days with us visiting the market in Kidderminster and a day out by the river in Stourport before they moved on to stay with our friends Shelia and Bill in Stourbridge until the 23^rd while we moved on from Yew Tree Farm on Sunday the 17^th heading for the Regional Meet at Merexton Farm nr Tenby to conclude our summer tour for 2014.