Somewhat late – but it’s time to put pen to paper – or more accurately fingers to keyboard and regale you/bore you rigid (delete as appropriate) with my grog skewed recollections of my autumn half-term getaway. No Crystal Palace this time – the site sadly closed at the end of last year - but Abbey Wood in south-east London. Friday The directions suggested by Google Maps varied significantly from the route recommended by the club so I plotted various stops on the app to ensure the correct directions were followed. This was easy enough; I just picked bus stops. All was going well; there was the usual queue to leave the M25 at the A2 junction but after that traffic was benign and my cunning plan seemed to working. Then came the penultimate waypoint, just where I needed to make a right turn. Mistake. I ended up on a slightly nerve-racking detour through a housing estate, with cars parked both sides of narrow roads, there was a heavy sigh of relief when I rejoined the prescribed r...
Sandra is opening the batting on this one: Following our successful return to the mainland, we made back towards Cambridge to collect my car, meet a friend for dinner and get sorted to start the second phase of the Summer 25 Trip. This would take us to Rutland in the centre of England, over to Worcestershire and then onto Powys. We stayed at a site in Fulbourn, close to where my car was parked up for a couple of nights and went out for a delicious evening meal at the Carpenters Arms , Great Wilbraham A new pub for me and the food was delicious. The next morning saw a bright, if slightly cooler, start on the just under a couple of hours drive to Uppingham area and to a CS site we had booked some time ago. As you may already know access was not good and sadly Patsy sustained another injury courtesy of some very underhand driving by a van coming in the opposite direction. After the turn off from the A47 it was a mile and a bit to the site, mostly on a sin...