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...
A two site'er. First up the Caravan Club site at Cherry Hinton in Cambridge, my old home town. An allocated pitch, a short walk from the facilities block, hardstanding and supposedly an awning pitch but quite small and accessible by soggy grass. Hetty towed really well managing, for the first time, over 30mpg on the 128 mile journey, despite carrying an awning and all the necessary gear for a longer trip, like long leather coats, jeans and boots... There was some inevitable condensation as Patsy warmed up but she was soon cosy, my little home from home, it was great to be away again after another few trying weeks at work. Saturday saw me head back down south - at least partially - as I boarded a train at Cambridge after necking a delicious pint in the adjacent bar. My destination was Stevenage and the Winter Wonderland just a short walk over the railway bridge. It looked fabulous all lit up but of course I was there for the Waltzer, and bagged my 21st different...