We are now heading south...
This morning we left the Wodhall Spa C&CC site and this afternoon we pulled into the St Neots C&CC site....
Our first impression of the site is very favourable with lush grass kept to a very high standard and a river running along one side of the campsite..... Two of the assistants working here we first met last year when we stayed at the Verwood location..
We will only be staying here for two nights as for us our visit is purely as a transit site. Mind you we have already managed a walk along the riverside path and a visit to a very nice pub for a drink and a meal......
Before we left Woodhall Spa we visited Tattershall Castle...
This is a superb 15th century red brick castle... It is one of the earliest and finest surviving examples of English medieval brickwork.
Anne and I went up through each of the floors and found our visit really interesting although Anne wouldn't go up to the upper roof area as heights are not really her thing.....
Having said that I have to be honest and admit that the older I get I don't have the same confidence with heights as I used to have when I was younger.... The upper roof area of the castle made me feel very uncomfortable....
While we were staying at Woodhall Spa we were entertained each day by the ducks that were resident at the site.... Their home was centered around a small pond in the wooded area of the camp....
However each day they would go on walkabout around the caravans and tents hoping to get some food.....
Duck food was available to buy at the camp reception/shop and Anne loved feeding the little blighters as they came round and visited our caravan.....
By the end of our stay which was around four weeks they would sit outside our van in the morning waiting for Anne to feed them...
The photo below shows them waiting outside our awning one morning a few days ago.......
This morning we left the Wodhall Spa C&CC site and this afternoon we pulled into the St Neots C&CC site....
Our first impression of the site is very favourable with lush grass kept to a very high standard and a river running along one side of the campsite..... Two of the assistants working here we first met last year when we stayed at the Verwood location..
We will only be staying here for two nights as for us our visit is purely as a transit site. Mind you we have already managed a walk along the riverside path and a visit to a very nice pub for a drink and a meal......
Before we left Woodhall Spa we visited Tattershall Castle...
This is a superb 15th century red brick castle... It is one of the earliest and finest surviving examples of English medieval brickwork.
Anne and I went up through each of the floors and found our visit really interesting although Anne wouldn't go up to the upper roof area as heights are not really her thing.....
Having said that I have to be honest and admit that the older I get I don't have the same confidence with heights as I used to have when I was younger.... The upper roof area of the castle made me feel very uncomfortable....
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| Tattershall Castle |
However each day they would go on walkabout around the caravans and tents hoping to get some food.....
Duck food was available to buy at the camp reception/shop and Anne loved feeding the little blighters as they came round and visited our caravan.....
By the end of our stay which was around four weeks they would sit outside our van in the morning waiting for Anne to feed them...
The photo below shows them waiting outside our awning one morning a few days ago.......
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| Anne's little duck friends waiting for more food...... |
2 comments:
You have just brought back some very early childhood memories as I remember going to Tattershall Castle when I was about 8 and running around at the top of the castle.
On some sites the ducks will climb the steps to the van begging for food. They know a good food source.
*Dave*
They certainly do Dave.... They were quite happy to join us in the awning and as you mentioned up the steps into the van would have been the next move.... Glad the post was able to take you back to the 8 year old Dave :-)
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