The final outing for this year sadly, due to work commitments. It would have to be one of our regulars as we are out of season, so taking the leader-board by storm is Finchale Abbey, the first site we’ve visited now on three occasions!
A swift 15 minute drive there and we were ready to pitch up. This is where the first adventure of the day began. We had been assigned pitch A5, but alas, there was no pitch A5? The office had clearly ‘lost the plot’ when they booked us in! After a quick check with them, we were assigned to pitch A1, which truly did exist 🙂
A bit of a reverse back up the path and a blind side reverse onto the tiny ‘hardstanding’ went all according to plan. Some final minor adjustments and levelling with the mover did the trick. Time to begin our usual set-up routines. We soon were ready and enjoying some lite lunch. Getting ready to prepare for tea we soon encountered the low amperage of the site, something had to give as heating, fridge and another appliance sent it tripping! Make note for next visit 🙂 We weren’t planning on doing much this trip other than ‘relaxing’, so following tea we enjoyed some TV and the night closed in as usual.
Sunday, following breakfast I made haste and washed the ‘van, expecting some poor weather to close in. The ‘van wasn’t bad, but the nearside needing doing as I hadn’t cleaned that side since we started using the awning all of the time! Job done and we then went for a brisk walk around the campsite and river. Following this we enjoyed tea and again lapped up some films and TV whilst the night drew ever closer and another Monday morning loomed.
Monday morning and thankfully no flat battery in the car this time! We packed up along with a few extras for the winter storage and headed off. There may have been no flat battery, but this time I found myself with a locker barrel lock in my possession as one came out with the key as I closed up the rear storage locker. Not sure what to do with this, I ensured the locker was locked on the bottom lock and kept the barrel safe, some research into fitting it back was in order!
Back at storage, the place was full and we parked our treasure up for the last outing of 2015.
- Date: 14th November 2015
- Nights: 2
- Pitch #A1
- GPS: 54.817486, -1.540929
