Off on our travels again - this time on home ground, bound for the Cornish coast. Left home yesterday and drove as far as a Caravan Club site called Hillside, somewhere between Andover and Salisbury. Beautifully landscaped site with small clearings in woods on the hillside, but each camping area level. Went for a short walk after dinner further down the hill, watched the rabbits and found our first geocache of the holiday.
Today started off well, driving west on the A303 and stopping for lunch around midday at a picnic area just into Somerset. We had run through some very heavy rain for a while, but the sun came out just as we parked up. Straight away we noticed something very odd - the rain running off the roof of the van was coming down on the inside of the dinette window! Our van is only 11 months old and this has not happened before and shouldn't be happening now. So John got on the phone to our dealer Premier Motorhomes in Birdham, Chichester (where we'd been only last week for it's first year's service) and they told us to go to the only Autotrail dealer in the
West Country - in Wellington. We found it on the map and realised we were actually pretty well placed for getting there fairly quickly. So a call to Alex at Chelston Motorhomes, a quick sandwich and we set off towards the M5. Arrived there at 1.30, it was taken into the workshop and we were told they would look at it when they could fit it in. We sat in their reception lounge for 3 hours - but then it was sorted. Window taken out, packing put in at the bottom of the cutout, window replaced and re-sealed. All under warranty. Off we set again, now on the M5 and A30, heading even further west. And so at 7 pm we arrived at Cardinham, near Bodmin - Camping & Caravanning Club listed site called Gwel am Nams on the edge of Bodmin Moor. Very windy up here, but with some sunshine and a beautiful sunset. Small, very well-kept
field with all mod cons. and 2 donkeys the other side of the fence, called Harry and Dino. Rather eccentric farmer, but a great welcome. I'm taking photos of all the signs he's put up around the site - some quite funny. Hoping for a fine morning as we'd like to explore a bit around here before moving on westwards.
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