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Where Have You Been In Your Van Today?
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You can't beat a bit of candy white Swamper action.
Did you see the seals when crossing …it was busy yesterday but we managed to escape the crowds
Overnight at saltburn by the sea
Now at the Maryport Marina’s very nice small campsite. Cost £28 per night. Town interesting but unfortunately has seen some better days despite its proximity to the peaks of the Lake District.
I came here to follow a bit of an ancestral trail; one of whom in 1846 at the age of 26 had a “splendid new” 372 ton barque built at the local shipyard for the “China and East India trade”. He sailed from Maryport before eventually returning to Liverpool. The days of ‘death or glory’!
Have they filled in the humungous pot-holes in that car park yet?
That's keen that is!
Another word sprung to my mind!
)Is it true (it certainly looks like it) that everyone has to reverse onto Greek ferries? We find fancy a Eastern trip after always doing France/Spain/Portugal. But we have a panel van so will be towing a caravan. I'm pretty good at reversing but under pressure with thousands of pounds worth of other peoples shiny beloved metal each side it's a bit nerve wracking!
Further to my post #10,882 we're now starting the journey home from Greece starting with the Poros to Galatas car ferry and a near 4 hour drive from there to Patras which was very pleasant as it mostly stuck to the coast. We're now in an AirBnB in Patras for a couple of days before the ferry to Ancona and a trek across Italy - apart from anything else, the small ground floor apartment was chosen as it has it's own secure parking on the premises (the van can just be seen peeking through the steel sliding door!). Finding secure parking wasn't really a concern in Poros (small island, very low crime rate) but now we're in a biggish city, it's a different matter. We're quite close to a a football stadium and whilst there doesn't seem to be a match on today, we can hear a band doing a sound check for what might be a gig this evening?? Hopefully, they won't be playing until too late tonight a Mrs AJ always needs her beauty sleep - not such a problem for me as I'm well past beauty sleep doing me any good and I'm also partially deaf and earplugs take care of the rest.
@Podge. Until today, I would have said no (or not always) but we did have to reverse on to the ferry this morning and drive forwards to get off (but it was quite a small one). The one that we travelled over to Poros on last last week was a RoRo so it was drive forwards on and off. That said, the bad news is that for the big ferries like the one that we're doing the 24 hour trip on next week from Patras to Ancona, you also drive forwards to get to the car deck(s) BUT disembarking does often require a bit of reversing. On the way over here, that was pretty easy as it was just back about 10M or so and then forward to the ramp up and out - we're supposed to be returning on the same ship so I hope it will be the same procedure then. However, last year when we caught a ferry from Igoumenitsa to Bari, I wound up driving forward onto the ship and a car deck three levels down but had to reverse up two of them before there was space to start going forwards again. I found that stressful enough with just the van and assistance from the reversing camera and couldn't imagine trying to do it with a caravan in tow as well. Please don't think I'm being too alarmist here as I thing the crew who direct the traffic on the boat are pretty switched on about all this stuff and would probably send a rig like yours somewhere fairly easy to manoeuvre in and out of (probably an upper deck) - don't forget that it's in everyones interests to embark and disembark any vehicles as quickly as they possibly can and nobody wants 'an incident' that gets in the way of that. The other thing that doesn't help if you like to have an extra set of eyes in the vehicle when doing all this stuff is that they only allow the driver to travel in the vehicle when it goes on - occupants have to leave it and go on board as foot passengers meeting up again once the car is parked up.
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Just been out painting a ramp for the Berkeley soapbox it’s tomorrow and a great event lots of carts if anyone interested in going you can get info from Log in to Facebook it’s as good as red bull if not better ice cream van and food and drinks available
Just back from a fabulous weeks walking (and a touch of the obligatory shopping) in The Lakes in and around Ambleside.
More sun than rain which was a bobby bonus! Great to see the fighter jets come through almost every day.
Stayed at Sunny Brow Farm which I can highly recommend.
Walked Loughrigg Fell, Catbells, Tarn How, Skelwith Bridge-Little Langdale-Elterwater, and a circular out of Sunny Brow.
More sun than rain which was a bobby bonus! Great to see the fighter jets come through almost every day.
Stayed at Sunny Brow Farm which I can highly recommend.
Walked Loughrigg Fell, Catbells, Tarn How, Skelwith Bridge-Little Langdale-Elterwater, and a circular out of Sunny Brow.
Does Sunny Brow Farm not have camping? I just looked it up but it appears only to have rather lovely looking cottage style accommodation.
