Our final weekend away before France and another pub site was chosen in the small village of Bolam – that’s Bolam in County Durham not Bolam Lake, Northumberland!
The site is easily found, just off the A68. It is located in a field behind the pub, very similar set-up to ‘The Crown at Mickleton’ in fact. When I booked we had been assigned pitch #1 so as we drove onto the site we quickly scanned the pitch markers and discovered a wee little van already on pitch #1. There are twenty pitches on the site and all the others were empty, so we plumbed for pitch #3 and began pitching up!
The site is on a slope, so levelling is required. Pitches are of a good size, all grass and access is easy via the gravel road running through the centre of the site. EHU points are by each pitch and scattered about are plenty of water points. Two toilets and a sink are housed in a porta-cabin along with a shower. The CDP is also located by the cabins, by way of a sunken toilet. All perfectly adequate. It seems however that there are plans to improve the facilities, with a new toilet block being built. This was very much just at its foundation stage whilst we were there.
With nothing planned for the weekend but simply to relax, Saturday soon came and went. The weather had been glorious, maybe this was the start of summer? Sunday came and so did the end of summer. Torrential rain and cold weather soon put paid to any dreams of sitting outside of the caravan! Following an easy morning we decided to head to the pub for lunch. It looked a very popular place due to the amount of cars about. We managed to get a table and were soon treated to a Sunday carvery. All very pleasant and reasonably priced too. There is even £2 discount per night stay off your meal and drinks bill, which is very welcome! Following the meal we retired back to the ‘van for the rest of the evening.
Monday came around too soon again and we duly began packing up. Luckily the weather was quite nice again so we weren’t fighting mud. We headed back to storage and were finally allocated our new storage pitch! Namely Black 154. Good to have a regular spot again.
- Date: 30th May 2015
- Nights: 2
- Pitch #: 3
- GPS: 54.598143, -1.692214
