Last weekend we bought our UK caravan
on Ebay by auction! A scary event as we bought it unseen, then spent
the weekend driving down to Bexhill on Sea to collect it and enjoyed
a couple of nights, one in Bexhill, a pleasant seaside town with
great fish and chips. Sacrewell near Peterborough was our second stop
where we had a wander round the pretty village of Wansworth.
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Thursday 21st July.
This weekend we took off for the
Yorkshire Dales, Austwick was our campsite, having joined the Caravan
and Camping Club, we stopped on a farm site, idyllic surrounded by
lovely rolling hills, cows and sheep!
Sun shone with occasional showers, our
first day saw us hiking up Pen-y-gent. Great walk, a first for me but
Roy's done the Three Peaks walk several times in bygone years.
     
On Friday we hiked to see the Norber
Erratics, a group of sandstone boulders which were transported from
their “proper” place about a kilometre away by glaciers about 13
to 15,000 years ago and left perched on top of limestone rocks.
Interesting to see but not quite as majestic as some erratics we have
seen in the States, nevertheless a pretty walk. Had a look round
Settle which neither of us remembered, it was heaving with bikers and
hikers and people eating! So we had an ice cream!
   
Last day was rainy so Roy fiddled with
the radio which did not work.... he fixed it, we are not sure how! We
were just about to go out to see Ribblehead Viaduct when disaster
struck, it felt like it at the time. The people who owned the van
before us had fitted a fancy shower gel dispenser in the shower but
he told us that it leaked so they stored it in a box in a cupboard.
For some reason Roy did not hear the man tell us this and he took the
dispenser out of the box and said as he moved it across one of the
side settees, “what about this”........ at which point the damned
thing leaked purple shower gel all over the seat!! After and hour of
trying to sponge the soap out of the cushion I gave up and we went
out to get some fresh air – it had been rather blue in the caravan!
We just hope the cushion dries without a stain.
Ribblehead Viaduct was super and we
enjoyed a walk around it despite some sprinkles.
        
CHAPEL OF THE FELLS IN CHAPEL LE DALE
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