Where Have You Been In Your Van Today?

[Daleboy]

Great week tabbing the western side of Dartmoor out of Tavistock C&CC Site. Quiet with good, clean facilities and close enough for a wander into town for a pint…


Heading up to Pew Tor admiring the locals…


Pew Tor summit looking West…


Hardy beasts on the approach to White Tor…


White Tor summit looking South West…


Great vista from Roos Tor to the South, over Great Staple Tor all the way to the coast at Plymouth…


Looking East to Vixen Tor…


Cox Tor out to the North East from Whitchurch Down…


Looking back East towards the Campsite whilst crossing Whitchurch Down…


An eye-catching Farm entrance in Moortown no longer in use…


Heading East and home over the Moor passing Princetown Jail to the South…


Escaping before the worst of Storm Bert arrives…


We will be back…

 

[monkeybusiness]

Sorry rubbish photo but I took myself off last night to Skipton (Yorkshire) for a night. Few beers, curry, and waking upto thick snow.
If you live in Yorkshire then the world was falling apart if you read social media. It was bad but the amount of snowflakes (excuse the pun) was ridiculous.

 

[Bigsidavies]

Having a few days with some friends in their holiday home near Gatehouse of Fleet before we carry on more Northerly in the van. Maybe to Mull.

 

[GUMY]

Ainsdale, Merseyside.

 

[JDC]

Over to Delemre Forrest with the dub dog who is now snoring away, and has been since we got back!!! Beats going to work.

 

[Bigsidavies]

Spent last night just outside Girvan, which is definitely better than just inside Girvan.
Ice on the outside of the windscreen cover this morning.

 

[Martinw]

Just a short run out today to Greenfield near Oldham on family business. One odd thing: the trip included a bit of the M60 and M62 over the top of Manchester, and during this time the Emovis tag we got for October's France trip, which is still on the windscreen, started occasionally bleeping the way it does when you drive through the toll gates. Is there something on UK motorways that tracks these tags?

My other thought was that perhaps the beeping is a way that the tag tells me that its battery is running low? To check I logged into the Emovis web site, and it has a screen that tells you the current battery status for your tag, mine said green, i.e. full charge. This leads me to wonder how the web site knows the status of a tag's battery? I expect that the data exchanged between tag and toll gate might include some tag status stuff, but that would mean I would need to be in France to get accurate status readings, and nobody wants to approach the first toll gate on the next France trip only to find the tag now has a flat battery. Which leads me back to tag monitoring in the UK (and anywhere else).

 

[drinfinity]

Maybe the tag is communicating via a SIM card. There is a reception blackspot round the top left of the M60, (calls would always drop out for me just before I was heading up to the M61) so maybe the beep was indicating it had either lost or regained the signal?

 

[Ayjay]

I gave it some thought and concluded a long time ago that the indication of battery strength on the Sanef website was probably based on a reading the last time that it registered at a peage (or whatever!). On that basis, I've already made a note to exchange both of mine (French and Spanish) after 5 years (IIRC, the website suggests 5-7 as their life). That's not to say that @drinfinity is wrong - it could be me.

 

[Martinw]

Thanks both of you, Will probably never get to the bottom of the Emovis tag beep... We did the same journey to Greenfield today, and there wasn't a peep out of the tag, so either whatever it was complaining about has been fixed, or its battery has died completely.

 

[shropschris]

Quick work trip to Aberdeenshire perfect weather and no one there

 

[Kind of Blue]

Which castle is that?

 

[T6ChrisO]

Not sure if this is allowed but if you squint it looks like a T6..........

Hill Farm, Darsham, Suffolk - 2 Night Stay
Lovely woodland site for not a bad price (£34 for 2 nights)
Campfires allowed, dogs allowed, facilities on site but not the best, pretty quiet and peaceful, little kitchen area for each pitch

 

[Kind of Blue]

I was expecting Arnold Schwarzenegger crushing a beer can donning a weapons pack and planning his next mission. You camping machine looks armoured and mean!

 

[T6ChrisO]

I was expecting Arnold Schwarzenegger crushing a beer can donning a weapons pack and planning his next mission. You camping machine looks armoured and mean!

Fully prepped for when I no doubt crash into stuff getting use to driving it

 

[Kind of Blue]

Fully prepped for when I no doubt crash into stuff getting use to driving it

is it 4Motion?

 

[T6ChrisO]

is it 4Motion?

No, FWD

 

[Ricardo T]

Not sure if this is allowed but if you squint it looks like a T6..........

Hill Farm, Darsham, Suffolk - 2 Night Stay
Lovely woodland site for not a bad price (£34 for 2 nights)
Campfires allowed, dogs allowed, facilities on site but not the best, pretty quiet and peaceful, little kitchen area for each pitch

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Just down the road from me….some great walks not too far from there..and cafes!

 

[shropschris]

Quick work trip to Aberdeenshire perfect weather and no one there
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Slains Castle right on the cliff edge

 

[Drive Wayne]

To our local farm shop to collect 'the tree', a pleasant experience finding the perfect tree straight away, £45. Hayhead Farm shop, Aldridge, the same place we get the 'home made cakes' from for the Forum meets!
Much less stressful than a trip to Cannock Chase where the usual tree is £75.
The reindeer is up, I just need to get my dangly flashy bits up on the guttering in due course.
But first to watch the girls hang the baubles