This was our ‘Field of Dreams’ weekend. An advert on television stating ‘they will come’ revived memories of the film and without haste, the film was duly ordered from Amazon and we were off for another weekend to watch it!
The destination of choice for this weekend was Hillcrest Park in Richmond, North Yorkshire. At this time of year most sites have closed for the year, but this one was open all year round, time for us to pay a visit.
Access is straight forward, although the last 3 or 4 miles are along a B road with numerous farm tracks running from it. This, coupled with the weather meant for a mucky ride! So far to date, we’ve never seen the ‘van so mucky after arriving on site. So along with the usual set-up jobs another one was added, clean the ‘van!
A lovely meal and some evening TV brought Saturday to a close very quickly as it usually does. Sunday was a lovely day, bright skies and dry. A little on the cool side but hey, we can wrap up for that when outside. The Alde heating in the ‘van kept the temperature toasty warm, so no problems there. No public footpaths in the area, which was a shame. So our usual Sunday morning jaunt was limited to a wander around the site, and it’s not that big a site. Toilet block was good, two toilets and two showers each for both men and women. A laundry room was also to be found in the block. There are two points for water and waste, grey water was to be put down the Elsan point which was quite simply a sewage drain with a large plug in it!
The site was quite small as mentioned, pitches a little squashed to be honest, so not the best. A lot of the pitches were residential as well, so we had some activity over the weekend, but it soon went quiet come Sunday evening. Sunday turned into film day as we got through the planned ‘Field of Dreams’ along with a couple of other movies. Chicken, mash and veg for tea with some more evening TV and Sunday night fell upon us, with quite a lot of rain!
Monday morning and the pack-up begins. Al least it’s not raining now, but the roads were nice and mucky again, awaiting our departure, where upon our lovely clean ‘van would be covered in no time! Nothing for it, but to take some water in the jerry can and give her a quick clean once back in storage!
- Date: 9th November 2013
- Nights: 2
- Pitch #: 14
- GPS: 54.533026, -1.769077
