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606, 2017

Camping Weekend at Baysbrown Farm Ambleside

By |June 6th, 2017|Blog|Comments Off on Camping Weekend at Baysbrown Farm Ambleside

It’s that time of year when camping comes into its own, warm days mean that even the fairest weather campers are planning trips away and looking for ideas on where to go.

We decided to do an old school style camp on a free weekend, by this I mean taking the 18-year-old tent and basic equipment […]

1304, 2017

Top 5 North East Wedding Venues of 2016/17

By |April 13th, 2017|Blog|Comments Off on Top 5 North East Wedding Venues of 2016/17

I have been meaning to do an updated version of a blog I wrote a couple of years ago, looking at the top places brides and grooms (probably just brides!) choose for the big day reception celebrations and even the wedding itself. I have finally got round to looking at the data.

So in order to […]

2002, 2017

Camping near Bellingham Northumberland Boe Rigg

By |February 20th, 2017|Blog|Comments Off on Camping near Bellingham Northumberland Boe Rigg

It’s always a fist pump moment for me when I ring a campsite that’s not yet open and they say “come and stay anyway” and that was the tone for our holiday at the friendly Boe Rigg campsite.

We were only heading up for 1 night, at this time of the year desperation sets in to […]

1412, 2016

Feeling Festive at Christmas Beamish

By |December 14th, 2016|Blog|Comments Off on Feeling Festive at Christmas Beamish

Every year you see it on the News and it annoys me more and more as the years go on and people still do it.

Yet another winter wonderland theme park opens up to promise a world of fun, adventure and festive feelings for the family.

Every year the same thing happens, people travel incredible distances with […]

1608, 2016

A 3-night camp at The Hideaway Baxby Manor in North Yorkshire

By |August 16th, 2016|Blog|Comments Off on A 3-night camp at The Hideaway Baxby Manor in North Yorkshire

It’s a sunny day today, so I have decided to sit in the garden and type up a blog I have been meaning to put together after our 3 nighter at The Hideaway camp-site in North Yorkshire.

Why we booked this camp-site:

We did a google search for best sites to stay in North Yorkshire and […]

208, 2016

Wild Camp 2 in Galloway Forest Park Scotland

By |August 2nd, 2016|Blog|Comments Off on Wild Camp 2 in Galloway Forest Park Scotland

Just got back from our second proper wild camp of 2016, yep just 2 this year its fair to say I am no Andy Wardle from you tube.

We do go to Brockwell Woods a lot though as this is so convenient and means I can shoot down there straight after a wedding.

This time we went […]

1807, 2016

Volkspower 2016 Photos

By |July 18th, 2016|Blog|Comments Off on Volkspower 2016 Photos

I thought the chance of getting to a VW Festival was going to be slim this year, as its been a busy wedding season. When I saw a free weekend matching the dates of our local Volkspower show. I booked it, packed it and ……… went!

This time it was a bit special as I took […]

2604, 2016

Wild Camp 1 in Coldingham / Eyemouth Scotland

By |April 26th, 2016|Blog|Comments Off on Wild Camp 1 in Coldingham / Eyemouth Scotland

We finally did it, our first wild camp and we loved it!

It was the night before the big day when we were to break our duck and actually do a real wild camp. I had already planned to go to the lakes and climb up to Blea water, I could tell Julie was nervous but […]

2403, 2016

Photos from Little Joes Exterior Restoration 2016

By |March 24th, 2016|Blog|Comments Off on Photos from Little Joes Exterior Restoration 2016

As part of our continued investment in improving our service and our vehicles, here are photos from our campervans bodywork restoration and full re-spray carried out in 2016.

What the photos don’t show is that all of the seals and worn exterior trim that was also replaced when putting ‘Little Joe’ back together again.

In 2015 we […]

303, 2016

6 Mile Circular Walk in Middleton-in-Teesdale (Countryside and Mining)

By |March 3rd, 2016|Blog|Comments Off on 6 Mile Circular Walk in Middleton-in-Teesdale (Countryside and Mining)

Start by parking your car or arriving at the centre of Middleton-in-Teesdale.

Directions:

1) Turn left out of the car park and walk through the town. After passing the baker’s shop, cross the road and walk over the bridge across Hudeshope Beck and continuing up the steep hill known as The Hude.

2) Turn right when you reach […]