Another Autumn week break was upon us and another tranquil site was required! Quite literally, as both last year’s site ‘Old Oaks’ and this year’s ‘Eye Kettleby Lakes’ both belong to the ‘Tranquil’ group of selected sites. These are quiet adult only sites, usually five star rated – perfect!
Eye Kettleby Lakes is near the town of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. So just over a four hour drive encompassing just one stop, namely Ferrybridge. A reasonably early start saw us arrive at Ferrybridge where we had our usual morning breakfast of coffee and a bacon buttie! Weather was glorious and before we knew it, we were on the A607 heading through Melton Mowbray towards the campsite. The entrance to the site is quite something, passing through the gates we headed towards the clubhouse where the reception was. Thankfully the car park there has provisions for caravans, allowing them to turn around for the return journey back to the campsite so to speak. Due to popular demand at this campsite, we could only book one of the ‘outer’ pitches which are a new addition to the campsite, whilst the other ‘inner’ pitches have been there for a couple of years now – as an addition to the fishing that takes place there around several lakes.
After pitching up and erecting the awning we headed over to the clubhouse for the evening as there was going to be some live music on. This turned out to be a duo performing some country & western. It turned out to be a nice evening, from which we returned back to the ‘van to end our first day!
Sunday, was a relax day as Cath wanted to catch up on the ‘X Factor’ – no further comment! Other than a walk into the nearby town of ‘Great Dalby’, the only other activity was later on, much later on, namely 3am Monday morning when the winds started to pick up. As I lay there I wondered why I hadn’t put the storm straps on the awning? We shouldn’t need them? The wind kept on coming and I finally succumbed to going out and putting them on. Glad I did as the wind didn’t ease until Wednesday!
Monday, the bad weather continued with strong winds and rain – looks like another relax day!
Tuesday, a trip to the town was in order as it was market day! I had planned on walking it but due to the continued bad weather we decided to take the car instead. We parked up and headed into the town. Not a great market, I was expecting something a little grander but pleasant all the same. We soon made our way through it and headed back to base – minus a thimble, can you believe it!
Wednesday, weather slightly better, another relax day!
Thursday, time to take the awning down whilst the weather was much improved! This we did which I then followed with a wash of the ‘van. All sparkling, we settled down for the rest of the night.
Friday, time to pack up and head back home. Weather was, glorious again! Traffic was the usual ‘busy Friday’, not helped by the numerous roadworks on the A1! Back at storage, we parked the ‘van up and headed for home. Next trip, next weekend!
- Date: 11th October 2014
- Nights: 6
- Pitch #: 50
- GPS: 52.741199, -0.908448
