in search if that "let's do something different. On one such travel someone told me of a ferry that goes from Italy to Greece where you camp on deck and plug into the ships electrics. Imagine opening the caravan door and watching the sea bobbing aling? It HAS to be done.
So after coming back from Spain early because of bad weather I decided to decide that I was going!
I've stayed in touch with a couple of girls that I worked with who are also campers. Upon hearing of my mad idea "can we come? Can we follow?!" So the plan is..there are no plans! Both girls have their own motorhome/camper vans. We think we have all booked the same Dover Calais crossing but it was all so on impulse I've got visions if us waving to each other across the channel on different boats! Time will tell. At the time of this impulsive booking we dudnt realise we are sailing on a chuffing bank holiday..derr so we set off on Thursday and stayed at a lovely little CL just outside Nottm. Top House Farm Lammins Lane Arnold. It turns out the owner was in my class at primary school (another long story!) so after a night there a beautiful drive along the old Roman roads. Nice scenery and fast moving traffic all until we reached the outskirts of London (no suprise there then!) What a horrendous place that is. So as is my luck in the last 5 miles things didnt go great. Beautiful country roads,sun shining what could go wrong?! "Road ahead closed " I'm on a single track road with a twenty something foot caravan behind! There really wasn't a problem but how miserable were the other motorists? Did tgey really think that I WANTED to take a caravan down there?! I would always smile and thank anyone who had given way to me but their facial expressions were just blank. Have they never seen a caravan before? Are they Russian (where a smile is a sign of weakness?!) What a miserable lot in a beautiful County!
Well we finally arrived at the CL that I had booked 11 miles from Dover. It just so happens that there is a pub about 50 yards away. Fancy that! The owner came out to greet us "oh we didn't expect you until tomorrow!" Not a good start but at least I had found the CL that I had booked us all into. We could camp. It's great. A field with nothing in and our neighbours are horses. I thought it would be rude not to try out this pub before the others got here. All I can say is OMG! It was a cross between "Last if the Summer Wine and "Fawlty Towers". When we got there it was a beautiful typical country pub full of character with one other customer who turned out to be the lical nutter and this was the only pub in the area that he hadn't been banned from! You ve guessed it our new best friend! I enquired about Sunday lunch for 5 of us. OMG what a mistake. Landlady had a baby to look after and she seldom did food -despite all the signs. I really wished I hadn't asked! It was hillarious when I enquired where else we could all get a Sunday dinner from. "sandwich?" I replied "no I want Roast beef and Yorkshire puds " Guess what the name of the next town is? Sandwich! I ask you what kind of name is that for a Town?!
So on Saturday we were joined by Tracey who I think had broken the land speed record but it was great to see her. My trusty Garmin sat nav had decided to play up. Not charging sometimes. This has been a great trusty old friend. Yes she was expensive when I bought her but that was 7 years ago. She's taken us to Romania, up to Finland and heaven only knows how many places inbetween.Gutted. I was sure it was just the charging cable. We decided to go to Halfords to buy a new cable. What a lovely young man that served us. New cable £17.99 but he thought the problem was the connection pins. He asked if I would be interested in an ex demo one as he thought thst they had one where all my parts and accessories would be compatible to my old faithful. He brought out a singing and dancing flat screen one. Full european coverage etc. "yes I will take that one please I got to the check out "£20!" Similar ones for sale were around the £200 mark! What a bargain. Tracey couldnt keep up with the conversation as we were in and out looking at the bits in my car. She said "does it have a guarantee?!" I promptly stood on her foot and ushered her out the shop. She hadnt realised Id only paid £20 and yes I did get a receipt! I didnt want anyone to change their mind in the deal Id just got!
So we came back to the campsite and celebrated wuth a little strawberry gin! To say the rest of the crew get here and tomorrow.. ..bonjour France!
So as the beer seemed to go down rather well we had to pay a quick visit to the Co op and that stupidly named place Sandwich. What a great little place. They were having a 1940s weekend. I left Dave and Tracy unsupervised for 2 minutes when they were accosted by the local vicar and handed a hymn sheet! No whether they thought they could save Tracy or give Dave divine inspiration at dealing with 4 won.en on his own is anyone's guess.
The little town was obviously very historic and well into the swing if things
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