6-7 October Edinburgh

6-7 October Edinburgh

Walk out to Cramond Island and van washing today ready to move.

Cramond-beach from the Island
Cramond-beach from the Island

7 October Edinburgh

Bus to town Nelsons monument and some shopping Ops! I broke a cereal bowl.

Toilet anyone?
Toilet anyone?

A good walk about Maureen found some money wow.

Lucky Maureen
Lucky Maureen

4th October 2016 Edinbvrgh

4th October 2016 Edinbvrgh

Maureen-Cramond-isl
Maureen-Cramond-isl

Run this morning to Cramond Island interesting to see the submarine defense system. Can only be visited 2 hrs each side of low water.

Cramond-beach
Cramond-beach

Cycle this afternoon to Queensferry and on to the Forth road Bridge, cycled out via route 76 through Dalmeny estate back cycle route 1 A90.

Maureen-Forth- road-Bridge
Maureen-Forth- road-Bridge (Made Of Chocolate)
love-locks Forth road Bridge
love-locks Forth road Bridge

20th September 2nd October 2016 Bamburgh – Berwick

20th – 26th September 2016 Bamburgh

Bamburgh Castle
Bamburgh Castle

Arrived at Bamburgh after dropping the car of and travelling across the A69. Campsite got busier as the weekend approached quietened off just before leaving.

Grace Darling Monument
Grace Darling Monument

Managed to run together to the beach at Bamburgh then same day took the cycle route 1 to Seahouses back along the seafront. Next day cycle route 1 to Holy island a great day out 4 ½ hours cycling with a lovely bacon buttie and coffee on the island.

Cycle to Holy Island
Cycle to Holy Island

A day off exercise with a 1 ½ hr. walk to Bamburgh beach and a short evening walk to Budle bay. Next day run to beach again and a cycle along the coast road to Seahouses for a coffee. Visited the Grace Darling museum and here grave in the church yard opposite.

26th – 2nd October 2016

campsite-view-berwick
campsite-view-berwick

Arrived Berwick booked in to Seaview site, walked into town. Next day run along the seafront at Spittle then walked to the harbour lighthouse and a Costa in Berwick.

 

Berwick
Berwick

A very different and interesting cycle down to Holy Island from Berwick compared to from Bamburgh, coastline footpaths complete with cow plats and the ex owners of them in fields but a good cycle with a couple of rain showers.

Holy Island from Berwick
Holy Island from Berwick

5 August Keswick

5 August Keswick

Back at what we call home Keswick after a truly wonderful trip into Northern Europe we have enjoyed stunning scenery wonderful campsites lovely people great weather a totally enjoyable trip north for a change. We failed to reach our objective Russia only due to the fact we did not plan the trip as we don’t often know where we are going and when we are getting there and lack of knowledge of “things” we are now equipped to make the trip again via Germany, Poland and up to Estonia at a later time. We also enjoyed chatting to locals in non tourist areas and have learnt so much about the countries a fab 8 weeks we thoroughly recommend trying it.

3 August Harrogate Showground

3 – 4 August Harrogate Showground

Arrived Harrogate to catch up with Friends before moving back up to The Lake District a lovely lunch and afternoon with Linda and Ray (thank you) today Maureen’s friend Olive.

Last 2 days of our Scandinavian trip back from checking out ready for a bigger trip, a wonderful trip not what we planned but fab anyway we now know how to overcome a few obstacles that appeared due to lack of knowledge. The campsites people and travel through Denmark Norway and Sweden was great.

The places we visited and the route below.

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30 July 1 August 2016 Riverside Stratford on Avon

30 July 2016 Riverside Stratford on Avon

Left Poole heading for Oxford unfortunately on arrival booking in and hooking up we found a small problem, the bus service into Oxford had changed and it appeared to my tired mind a huge problem with timings and bus routes so I asked the lovely Maureen if we could leave. Arrived Riverside Stratford on Avon  for 4 nights our third visit this year, it seems to be well placed in England to reduce our travelling times when leaving or entering England from home. Caught up with all our laundry and been into town for a walkabout in the market.

Swans June -July
Swans June -July

1 August 2016 Riverside Stratford on Avon

A run this morning then a trip in to Stratford on Avon for coffee and cake.

2 August 2016 Riverside Stratford on Avon

Into Stratford to have a look round the retail park a spot of lunch then back to the site move in the morning to Harrogate.

15 years 150000 miles of European Travel through 16 Counties