Peelies travels

Soon it was time to turn around and head into Shropshire. The first port of call was Ludlow on market day (Monday). This is a nice place and we will be back I’m sure, as there’s two family reasons why we will be coming to the area. There’s no photos of Ludlow as rather frustratingly we handed over our aging phones at the willing repair shop. We entrusted them for “new batteries” but the short story is that two hours later, neither phone had been updated and we raced back to the car park, exceeding the allotted time, without any ‘snaps’ being taken. The exploratory visit to the campground at Little Stretton was a success. We and a dozen others were there for day #1 of the new season. According to Pam, half of Pam and Oscar, they have run the place for fifty five years. It’s in an idyllic valley, right under the Long Mynd, accessed across a gentle ford 🤪 This year anyway! We decided to test our walking pace and with Oscar’s slightly disbelieving eyebrow raising after he suggested a six ...

The frenetic pace of the trip continued and we headed south and soon  we were at the home of Peter and Carol, people with whom we’d become acquainted during the Alps holiday in 2023. It had been hilarious when Carol answered questions about “where in Derbyshire did you live?” and she was narrowed right down to Sparrowpit, all the time assuming that we wouldn’t know where she meant. The purpose of this first visit was to take a closer look at their DIY van-to-camper conversion, the first that we have seen that has the sort of highly practical fixtures and fittings that we might try to emulate, should we ever decide to get a van. For the record it’s a 2015 Transit 2014.5 MY 350 L3 H3 AWD   (long wheel base and high roof neither of which are as big or as tall as we thought).I saw the spec sheet and it had some very useful features at purchase that would have helped with the decision to buy. We left with lots of ideas of what to do and maybe what not to do, once we commit and...