On the road

We picked up the van on Thursday but there was an issue (blamed on Scot 🙂 with the side door.  Drove to York today to find a locksmith but still need assistance from auto locksmith tomorrow.

We loved Bridlington – what a lovely little place and such friendly people – really bustling, but what a nightmare it would be in summer, so busy.  Got pushed in on at a bakery by mistake and when they realised we hadn’t been served they damn near got on their knees and asked for forgiveness.  We couldn’t believe it.

We are staying in a lovely rural caravan park tonight and just before Scot cooked tea, we saw all the van occupants from around the ground grab their chairs and head off in one direction.  We wondered what we were missing out on so curiosity got the better of us and we headed off in tow to see what was up.  Happened to be a van club all going to have fish and chips in the recreation room – and they didn’t even want us to join them!!!  Never mind we had Salmon and veges – far better than their dinner!

4deg tomorrow morning, but how snug and cosy the van is – we absolutely love it.  Tomorrow we’ll do a lovely wood walk to Stamford Bridge before we find the auto locksmith.

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Our first days in England

Well we made it to England despite a few setbacks, like delayed planes, trains and automobiles.  We stayed our first two nights in Kings Cross, where it looks like the area is being made into a trendy upbeat place.  It certainly was buzzing while we were there.

We met up with our niece Lauren in London and spent the day at the Bricklaying markets and tried a variety of scrumptious food which was great.  What a glorious sunny day.

On Monday we took the train up to Bridlington and met up with the motorhome owners who had been incredibly kind and trusting to keep it until we arrived here.  The motorhome was everything we had expected and is absolutely perfect for our travels.  The owners have left in all bedding, crockery, cookware, camp chairs, table etc which is a godsend with us not having to worry about buying everything.  We are staying in a b&b in Bridlington at the moment and tomorrow (16/4 Thursday) we are taking our hire car back to Hull and coming back up to Bridlington and picking the campervan up to start our true adventure.

We had hoped to be over in France for Anzac day, but we now think it would be wise to stay in England for a couple of weeks to get a feel for the van as it has a lot of different things that we didn’t learn about when we hired the campervan in NZ last year.  Plus we are thinking we want to do a couple of things to the van like a bike rack etc and talk to a Puegot expert about some of the things in the van.  I have posted some photos of the van.  Next blog once we are officially on the road.campervan 2  campervan 4 campervan 6 campervan 8 campervancampervan 3