A Blogger in Black

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...

Saturday 5th July Sandra: Today was a take it easy day – we had been on the move for 2.5 days and the heat was still very hot indeed.   One good thing the site had, apart from us being able to park under trees and back on the hedge was the site had a breeze – it was heavenly as it was still in the low 30C. However, what we had not expected when we took a short 3 mile trip south to the coast at Ventnor was rain and mist!!   Well it lasted all of 5 minutes and did offer some respite.   We sat it out in the car and then opted to take a stroll down the front.   It was very pleasant but clear that some places had still not opened up for the summer holiday season which was still some 2 weeks or so away.   We found a lovely little café called Toni’s, ordered our usual coffee, and toasted teacakes.   A further stroll back to the car and a look at the children’s paddling pool and restaurant surrounding it saw us heading back to the car – the heat was r...