For many years - probably right back to my early 30s, I wanted to tour Britain (and other places?) in a campervan when I wasn't working any longer. In the past couple of years, The Archaeologist and myself have look at models but it's been inconclusive - to a degree because the former favoured a caravan over a campervan and I didn't....Then, one day, we went to a show and found a model that took both our fancies and to cut a story short, we arrived home with our motorhome (as I now understand it is more suitably called), last Friday...
Happiness is an ambition achieved - or at least in the making!
As soon as were were able, we went out for the day to Dyrham Park, near Bath. This provided additional practice in driving what is a big vehicle for both of us, but especially for me. It is very good riding higher up and once you get used to it, very good to drive but I need to practice a lot more yet...
We enjoyed our first cup of coffee...
and our first lunch...
Then went off to stretch our legs before the rains arrived.....
The grounds are beautiful at Dyrham and extensive and there are lots of lovely trees but the dullness of the day detracted from their potential for Autumnal colour.
(http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dyrham-park/)
It was a very pleasant day out, just chilling. We are looking forward to our first over-night trip next month to the Cotswolds as we hope to make use of our home-on-wheels throughout the winter unless the weather stops us: we found it so cosy and warm and quite comfortable enough to relax completely.
More mobile blog posts to come....hopefully!
