Situated where the River Severn and the River Avon meet, Tewkesbury is an ancient settlement with almost 400 listed buildings. The town has some of the best examples of half-timbered buildings and overhanging upper storeysContinue reading
Category: The Adventures
Living in a motorhome / self-build is the ultimate in travel experience. On our adventures, we go where we want, taking our h0me comforts with us. Here you the places the adventures have taken us.
We enjoy talking about the places we visit whilst on our adventures. Each time we visit a new place, you’ll find a blog about it. The good, the bad and the funny. Our thoughts on each town, county and hopefully soon Country. We’ll share things we find to do and hopefully inspire others to take the plunge and take to the roads in their four-wheeled companions. Hopefully, avoiding those towns that don’t enjoy the company of high topped vehicles ;-)
The Cumbria Way – Lake District National Park
The Cumbria Way is a 70 miles footpath in Cumbria, that travels through the heart of the Lake District National Park. The path links the two historic towns of Ulverston and Carlisle. The route goesContinue reading
Cat Bells Fell – A Personal Challange
Cat Bells is a 451 metres mini mountain that over looks Derwentwater in a spectacular fashion. This walk is one of the most popular in the area with all age groups. Considered to be easy. Continue reading
Derwentwater, Keswick – Lake District National Park
Derwentwater is 3 miles long, 1 mile wide and 72 feet deep with four big islands and several smaller islands. Much of the shoreline along with the four big islands are owned by the NationalContinue reading
The Old Man of Coniston – Lake District National Park
The Old Man of Coniston also known as Coniston Old Man or The Old Man is 802 metres high. It sits west of the village of Coniston, overlooking Coniston Water. This mini mountain is popularContinue reading
Coniston Water – Lake District National Park
Coniston Water is the third largest lake in the Lake District. Five miles long by half a mile wide and has an elevation of 143 feet above sea level. Coniston Water is ideal forContinue reading
Horatio’s Maiden Voyage – Visit Glastonbury Tor
Now that Horatio is livable it is only fitting that our maiden voyage should be to our favourite town and a walk up Glastonbury Tor. It is only a two nighter as Nik is stillContinue reading
A purely indulgent week away
Nik has been working solidly since February. So that we could pay for all the work we had done on Daisy. Also, to put as much money away as possible. So we can properly startContinue reading
Bucks Mill, Devon
For the first time in months, Nik had a day of that doesn’t involve catching up on some chore. The sun was shining. So we took a drive along the coast to Bucks Mill, aContinue reading
Penpol, near Falmouth
Since November Nik has been going to bed and asking for blue skies and fluffy white clouds. Well, we have definitely been blessed this month as that is what we’ve been getting most of. Few!Continue reading
The New Forest
It has only been 7 weeks since we last went on an adventure.It seems like years. The weather was so bad we decided to stay put for a while. It didn’t seem worth the effort thatContinue reading
The Edge of Dartmoor
We’ve finally bit the bullet and bought ourselves a MiFi. Nik is becoming more and more frustrated with his inability to work due to lack of internet reception. As we were due to visit hisContinue reading
Christmas Shopping in Glastonbury
So Marisa couldn’t come with us to Glastonbury when we visited a few months ago due to work commitments. She was pretty gutted. This week Marisa and Joss, her partner, are on holiday and haveContinue reading
Mylor Bridge
The weather was predicted to be pretty wet so we decided not to travel too far and just find a reasonably priced site with good walks. This actually proved to be quite difficult and weContinue reading
Downderry and Cornish Seaton
Downderry is a small Cornish fishing village and this is where we have decided to stay for this weeks adventure. Our site is on a farm at the top of a very steep hill overlookingContinue reading