This weekend, was my first bank holiday weekend away in my Caravan. A bit of a mixed weekend for me, but it overall it was a lovely relaxing one. Started off at 5pm when I left work, drove up to my house, and loaded the car. Hooked up the caravan - which I'd bought from the storage place, and prepared ready for a quick ish…
Today we awoke to........light rain . which dried up by 8am! We bade a fond farewell to the campsite - not much of a campsite but great bathing facilities and went across the road to the Wai-O Tapu Thermal Wonderland. Now I have a bit of an antipathy to anything that calls itself "wonderland" I'll be the judge of that…
This and more stories on blog https://inpursuitofadream.com Rain, rain go away, come again another day! A Twitter friend suggested we ‘cross the border’ a mile away back into England for nicer weather. Very tongue in cheek but worth a try. We needed a few supplies, the bottled variety, so off we went. Ludlow, in…
http://home-is-where-you-drag-it.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/le-grande-tour-of-west-country.html First of all, apologies in advance for the non caravan related story. Herself and I had a silver wedding anniversary coming up and wanted to celebrate in style. Many go off on cruises or exotic foreign holidays for theirs, but this…
We awoke to……. Heavy Rain! Which continued until about 10.30am then it stopped the sun came out and that was that! We’ve had a great day starting with a stroll round the Redwood Grove planted 120 years ago and doing very nicely. Although these are nowhere as impressive as their Californian cousins the under-croft of tree…
We ate our breakfast outside in pleasant conditions and drove into Rotorua which seems to be entirely composed of motels and smells strongly of sulphur! The intermittent heavy downpours merged into one and we literally paddled through the park past the flooded bowling green and the band stand where the attendant was just…
It poured all night - I mean really poured. Places not far away had over 120mm of rain in 24 hours - that's nearly 5 inches in old money. I was getting quite worried about the road out - remember we still had 77KM of dirt road to get down. There were loads of rock falls we had to drive round and we only passed 4 vehicles…
Sorry no Wi Fi or mobile signal at Lake Waikaremoana! So we were up with the bird-scarers at 7ish and drove in to sample the delights of Napier. The city was pretty much destroyed by a massive earthquake in the 1930s and rebuilt in the prevailing style of the day - Art Deco. There is a great deal of very fine Art Deco…
We took a leisurely drive to Napier. The countryside was mostly unremarkable until we got closer into Hawkes Bay when the flat lands between the hills were filled with vineyards and orchards for as far as the eye could see. The vines are heavily laden with grapes and some very specialist harvesting equipment was on the…
Caravans are becoming a more popular choice of holiday due to it getting harder and harder to find cheap holidays be it abroad or here at home. Whether you have the funds to choose a top of the range caravan or go for something that needs lots of TLC, there is a holiday out there waiting for you, no matter who you are or…
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