Peelies travels

We moved a little inland to try to get out of the coastal exposure and picked our way carefully through the lanes near Crackington. This one is amazingly flat. Others have gradients to 33%. It's a Land Rover so no worries. This site is nice and simple; they even allow small campfires. There's two toilets and a washroom with a shower. Hot water is supplied from a gas boiler hung on the side. This is about the only time that one end of the field could be seen from the other. The north Cornish coast was getting its share of 100% humidity literally falling out of the sky.  The owners had two young children, live in a touring caravan tucked away out of sight, use the toliet block as the family bathroom and home-school the kids. Then in the winter they wander to Morocco and other places. The were very interested to hear about our travels on the European mainland. The sky cleared for a few hours and we walked down to Crackington Haven and watched them lift the surf li...

Cornwall in late summer sounds great, so we went. The trip began on Sunday 8th September with a visit to old friends Mark and Jan, near Cheltenham. We covered a lot of ground in a 90 minute catch-up and it was great to see them. Then it was on to an overnight stop at Taunton, picked from park4night. This was a cider farm at Monkton Heathfield where caravans and motorhomes are dotted around an orchard inhabited by a multitude of peacocks. Using the experience of the Corsica trip we modified the accommodation to handle a double burner cooker fed with gas from a 907 cylinder. This has improved cooking no-end and will certainly be the way forward in anything other than heatwave conditions (Dawn is only bending down to be in the phtoto. There's plenty of headroom really).  By the time we arrived at Bideford, the weather had turned wet. Lunch was taken inside the Landy, this time with little headroom. Then we headed to the coast at Hartland. The lighthouse...