14th March. York

Had a wander round York today. We walked the old city walls, had a look at some of the sites and went to the Yorvic centre.
The Yorvic is a museum/stage type thing which you go around on a moving capsule. It takes you through the town of York in and around the 10th century. It is a really interesting place, with all the artefacts found in archaeological digs around the city...sounds a bit naff but actually quite interesting.

Tonight was fish and chips night at the caravan club!! Yes...a wee man comes along in his chippy van and drives around the site tooting his horn, then parks up and starts frying! When in Rome and all that, so I joined the queue!!

I'm surprised the caravan club don't provide a tannoy announcement!!;-)

“bing, bong. Good evening campers……”

13th March. York

Arrived in York thisafternoon. Went for a quick walk around the city which is very nice. Pricey, though, for all the attractions.

We'll go in tomorrow for a proper scout around.

Hello everyboby. I thought I would say a few words just in case you all forgot I was here!
So we are still camping,but it's so much more enjoyable now that we have the van fixed. I don't need to hold my breath anymore every time we go over a bump in fear of the wheel falling off! Ian put it into a garage in Ashwell and I think the entire village got called out to have a look at this wheel. Talk of the town, yet again.. Anyway we are back in the "Caravan Club" camp sites and the showers are fab. Every where is so clean....much more enjoyable.

We had a nice few days with Ian's auntie Trina,who took good care of us. It was also lovely to see Granny Joan and Mike.

Katie enjoyed her swimming yesterday. We may even have to rejoin Greens gym so we can use the pool. My daughter may become the next Olympic medal winner for swimming...even with her rubber ring!

Well thats all my chat...we are off to Penrith next and then Dumfries then sunny Glasgow (horay)xxx

12 March. Woodhill Spa.

Took ourselves up to woodhall spa today which is midway up England on the right hand side. We found a nice looking site (not caravan club) which boasted everything with bells on. It's kind of a country club set up.

Very nice but not up to standard apparently!!

Anyway, Woodhall spa is a lovely place, small village with lots of shops etc.

Katie had her first swim today, we took her and her blow up ring, off to the onsite pool. Her blow up ring could easily double as a 6 man life raft on board, but better safe than sorry!! She loved it, kicking her wee legs, splashing her hands and chatting away to the other swimmers.

We're not staying at this site so we're off up to York tomorrow.

Obviously, the picture is Sandra quality, but it's what we've all come to expect!!

11th March. St. Albans

Today we D-day for the camper.

It went in to get repaired, so we hired a car for the day and took ourselves off siteseeing.

The mechanic reakoned it was either something simple and relativly cheap or something major and not very cheap. He was going to replace the simple thing first and take it from there. .... well, my money dance and crossed fingers worked!!! The first option did the trick!

We went to St Albans, where my mother is from. Had a wander round the town and went to see her old house, which is now being demolished and developed. (picts. for my mother, the side one is from where the garage went out onto little acre, looking back to the dell and the t.court.)

After aimlessly trying to find our way back we past the place my granddad is burried so I went in to say hello and tell him all about his new great grand daughter. The Scottish accent used to stumble him, but at least he knew who it was!! ;-)

Apart from that we were just excited to get the van back this afternoon in full working order. Even I wouldn't have driven it any further, so you can imagine how bad it was!!

10th March, Baldock

Peacefull day. Trina came over today to rescue us incase the van was taken in for repair. We went to see katies great gran and her great uncle was also there. So she had a good look at the new rellies, had a quick moan, then sat back and chatted away.

Nice to see them both.

As for the van, it is being repaired tomorrow. We've hired a car for the day so we can go exploring.

We weathered last nights storm without too much bother, today turned out quite nice, but we're waiting for round two on the storm front. Shouldn't be bad though.