Author Archives: 88Trucker

Fri: Arrived promptly at 1.10pm, selected the pitch, a different side of the site this time and began setting up. All done for 2.30pm and time for a drink outside in the glorious sunshine! A couple pitched next to us … Continue reading →

Fri: Arrived on the dot at 1.00pm. Site quite empry, so planty of choice. Stangely enough, pitch #36 was taken so we opted for a more sunnier pitch at the North end of the site, namely pitch #21. This pitch … Continue reading →

Friday: An 8am departure and a pleasant journey down the A1 saw us arrive at Wetherby services for our essential bacon buttie. Times it quite nicely, as Gregg’s were packing the butties out with plenty of bacon as it was … Continue reading →

Fri: Enjoyed an early morning start, seems a while since we’ve done that. That meant we could pull into Weatherby services and enjoy a bacon buttie! This we did and then ploughed onward towards our destination. Weather was good, traffic … Continue reading →

Another weekend away at Durham Grange. We find this a perfect break in the caravan without travelling too far and due to the short distance, we can even go when we finish work. We were on pitch 37 this time, … Continue reading →

Well it’s been nearly 10 years since we were here last, and this weekend saw us back to a Saturday departure – so a short weekend again! Journey to the site is straight forward, only held up by the roadworks … Continue reading →

Fri: The road(s) to hell. That’s the best way to describe our journey. To date, this has been the worst journey in all of our caravanning expeditions. A1 / M62 – delays all the way. M6 – closure due to … Continue reading →

Grass pitch and no wrist bands – that about summarises this trip! We arrived at tea time for this trip, as Cath had to work a full day due to staff holidays. As I paid my dues at reception, I … Continue reading →

Sun: A smooth relaxed pack-up at Beechwood and we were underway to our next destination, Bridlington. A straight forward route, albeit a bit of a twisty one and we arrived at the site and joined the queue, the longest queue … Continue reading →

Fri: We began our summer 2 week holiday after work, we picked up the ‘van and headed South for York, namely Beechwood. We’ve been here once before, it’s a nice site with good transport access into the centre of York … Continue reading →