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Bognor Regis 2020

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We did manage another “holiday” this year.  Going south we stayed on the M40 and doubled back to Bladon Chains whereas going north the sat nav took us north on the A roads and joined onto the M40 at Banbury.

Not many pictures taken.  Here is Scotts Farm campsite in East Wittering:

Chavland
Nice campsite and nice place – the other visitors not so much.  It’s so cool for three generations of moronic chavs to cick balls around and play hide and seek around your motorhome while swinging from its wing mirrors.  Never again.  Mercifully they had gone by the time this picture was taken.

New Year and a New Motorhome

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No France holidays last autumn due to sitting around waiting for a new motorhome, which arrived just as it was too late to go there, what with everything shutting down.  Although we managed a few trips to Birmingham in it before the end of 2019, it was January this year before we got to go on anything resembling an actual holiday.  Birmingham, Bristol, and Moreton in Marsh made up the itinerary, so not that much of a holiday, but better than nothing.

Of course the weather was rubbish so we took the chance to have another wander around the SS Great Britain, which was free as it was less than a year when we last visited.  A few more pictures, then.

Across the river on the way to the ship

Random store room on Board the SS Great Britain

A tub inside a tub

Slimbridge to Cirencester – 28 May 2019

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We wanted to go to Tewksbury but it was full, so booked into the site at Cirencester instead.  Took the most obvious route along the A419, which is an utterly dreadful road.  We won’t be going on that one again.

Cirencester is nice, but on the Wednesday it rained cats and dogs.  Nicer on  Thursday and great pizzas at the campsite for dinner.

St John the Baptist, Cirencester

Bristol to Slimbridge – 24 May 2019

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We didn’t want to be travelling too far on a Friday before a bank holiday, especially around the West Country and M5.  We found a campsite at Slimbridge a few miles up the road so we went for it.

Tudor Caravan Park is a very nice site with a pub next door and a cafe across the road.  However, unless you fancy paying lots of money to look at otters, ducks and other similar animals at the local wildlife trust, there is very little to do.

Swans on the canal

Bristol – 18 to 23 May 2019

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We went round the SS Great Briton which is a very cool ship.  There is nothing amazing about it in this day and age, but it was built in 1843 and was in service for 90 years.  It was the first of just about everything in anything of this scale – propeller driven, iron hull, and the Cutty Sark, elsewhere in this blog was built at around the same time.

SS Great Britain

Madman up a mast – he paid money to get to do this

Then we went to the flight museum at Flinton, which was a little bit of a let down.  It has a Concorde which is great, but it could do with another hanger with more planes to make it better value.

Concorde

Obviously we also visited the Clifton Suspension bridge:

Clifton Suspension Bridge