On Monday April 1st ( April Fools Day ) we left the Dartmoor Caravan Park where we have spent the winter and headed back up into Dorset....
We had really enjoyed our stay in Devon and made new friends at the site.... The location of the site suited us better than the Tavistock C&CC site did as it was closer to where Anne's son lives which meant it was ideal for Anne to carry out 'Granny duties' with her year old Grandson....
It suited my cycling better as well as I was able to have a couple of miles warm up before hitting the first major hills....
Devon is full of hills but it was nice to have a couple of miles of almost flat roads on which to warm up on before having to put any big effort through the pedals...
The site was a privately owned site and Peter the owner has spent a lot of money over the years in creating a gem of a site..
The improvement work is still going on too with new edging stones and gravel being laid on all the hardstandings.... See images below..
We loved the site and we have booked again for next winter...
Peter popped down to our pitch to see us off as did a number of other campers...
It's an interesting point that some of our favourite sites have been the smaller private ones...We will be making a point this year of seeking out more of these smaller and privately owned camp sites...
They are more economical to stay on amongst other things.....
For instance an EHU on a C&CC site will cost about £35pw...typically we pay about £10pw at the smaller private sites...
Having said that we are currently staying at a C&CC site at Moreton... We have stayed here a number of times before as it's good easy access for me to attend the hospital in both Bournemouth and Poole for my regular scans etc and access to the Purbeck hills is also good for my cycling..
April 1st 2015 was when we started this fulltiming adventure and we had no idea how we would get on or indeed how long we would be doing it for...
As we start this fifth summer touring season we can both say that we really love the way of life...It seems like the more we do it the more we are enjoying it.
We had really enjoyed our stay in Devon and made new friends at the site.... The location of the site suited us better than the Tavistock C&CC site did as it was closer to where Anne's son lives which meant it was ideal for Anne to carry out 'Granny duties' with her year old Grandson....
It suited my cycling better as well as I was able to have a couple of miles warm up before hitting the first major hills....
Devon is full of hills but it was nice to have a couple of miles of almost flat roads on which to warm up on before having to put any big effort through the pedals...
The site was a privately owned site and Peter the owner has spent a lot of money over the years in creating a gem of a site..
The improvement work is still going on too with new edging stones and gravel being laid on all the hardstandings.... See images below..
We loved the site and we have booked again for next winter...
Peter popped down to our pitch to see us off as did a number of other campers...
It's an interesting point that some of our favourite sites have been the smaller private ones...We will be making a point this year of seeking out more of these smaller and privately owned camp sites...
They are more economical to stay on amongst other things.....
For instance an EHU on a C&CC site will cost about £35pw...typically we pay about £10pw at the smaller private sites...
Having said that we are currently staying at a C&CC site at Moreton... We have stayed here a number of times before as it's good easy access for me to attend the hospital in both Bournemouth and Poole for my regular scans etc and access to the Purbeck hills is also good for my cycling..
As we start this fifth summer touring season we can both say that we really love the way of life...It seems like the more we do it the more we are enjoying it.
2 comments:
Congratulation on full time camping for all these years. Yes both the C&MH and the CCC are ramping their prices up, and you still have to pay for Wifi. As you say it makes a huge difference for long stays.
I too hate hitting the hills before I'm properly warmed up.
All the best for more years camping.
@Dave
One bright spot with the C&CC is that from this year WiFi access is free on most of their sites...No doubt the C&MH will follow this lead soon in order to remain competitive.....
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