Day seven 8th June
We had decided to change our plans and go to an out of town campsite on a lake, we had not prebooked any more sites, the rest of the holiday had always been open to change. First thing we do is go to the motorhome service point to fill up with fresh water and dump the dirty water and toilet. Then it was off the petrol station to top up with diesel.
For the first part of the journey the road follows the canal and we spot the New Zealanders heading in the same direction as us, only they are travelling at a much more leisurely pace. We are not is a rush either as the next site is only about half an hours drive, as usual I have plotted out the new route on the laptop and soon we reach the exit. Exit 25 on the A38, only there seems to be two exit 25s and we have taken the wrong one, the route should have been easy from the right exit 25, take a left off the motorway, then after a couple kilometres on straight road, turn left again and follow the road to the site. Anyway, we continue along this country road, we take the first left as this looks more like a main road, it isn’t, eventually we turn back towards the motorway at a T-junction, on to what is a better road. Its only about one kilometre back to the motorway and the right exit 25, where there is a signpost showing the way to the campsite as back down the road we have just come along. However now we know where we are, we decide we will continue the way we had planed, as the roads are straighter but first, we will double back to a supermarket that have just passed.
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Restocked we arrive at the site and are told to pick a pitch and report back with our choice. The site is made up of two separate fields, one next to reception with the bar and restaurant and with a lake view the other has a pool but no lake view (since we where there the site has had a lot of work done and now has a new bar restaurant complex right on the lake). We choose one facing the lake, the only slight problem is it is a very busy weekend and several motorhomes are wild camping on the road between us and the lake (but, I say to Dot "they will all be gone by tomorrow night", wrong, it's a bank holiday weekend we didn't know about, so its the day after before it quietens back down to normal). The upside to all this is, that the lake is full of small sailing boats, with several races over the weekend, something to watch while sitting in the sun. I do go on the bike and have a look at the other field but the lake view is best.
Had another go with the satellite and again no signal.
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