Well what a spectacular way to end a holiday!
In hindsight it started with a bad omen so i should have known… Having stayed in the van in a car park, there aren’t any readily available services. Now… I get asked a lot, how I go to the loo in the van without a toilet. And today, the lack thereof, caused some serious faffing about.
We just so happen to be near one of the places in the UK I’ve wanted to visit for a while, without even realising it.
Today we awoke and enjoyed the luxury of a lay in with access to a toilet and cooking facilities all without having to dismantle the bed… Perfect!
Waking up in a new place is always fun, especially when you arrive in the pitch black. All we could see vaguely through the mist were the solid black stone walls of the remaining pump house. They looked so sinister last night but this morning, they are just the head stones of industry gone by. The last reminder of how busy this coastline used to be. Thinking about it, people must have walked for miles to come to work here. There aren’t any houses around here where people would have lived.
Is been a stressful and busy couple months recently. Some property maintenance bits and bobs, builders quotes for another job, filling rooms, Nana dieing, starting a new meetup (more about this in another blog) taking part in a drug trial and trying to see friends and maintain and support a relationship. It’s all gotten a bit much and was brought to my attention by the doctors when they reviewed my blood pressure readings.
What a success!!! I am happy to be smug as a bug in a rug having a tug on drugs!!!
The little diesel heater I installed works great! This means I’ve got SOOOO much flexibility about what I can do and where I can go, all year round!
I’ve been so wrapped up in work and travelling over the last few months that the weather has turned without noticing. It’s now getting colder and wetter and any time I have to spend in the van is becoming noticeably chillier. I’m spending more on hot chocolate and coffee in costa for the excuse to sit in the warmth while working. This was not the plan for the van, so I have bought myself a little diesel heater.
Stephen recommended it to me after he bought one. With a 3 week delivery time from China, I ordered one that evening too hoping that it wouldn’t be too late. Now it’s finally arrived and looks to be a really good, neat little package. I’m hoping it works as well as some of the reviews have said!
While, very pretty, the pass we stayed at the top of, was very windy in the night and a bit cold. Nothing a good egg sarnie and a cup of tea couldn’t fix.
This morning was standard touristy as Emily and Aimi went to visit the home of Beatrix Potter. She wrote the Peter Rabbit books, which were so successful and earned her so much fame and fortune that she bought and protected many areas of the Lake District. These were almost exclusively given to the National Trust and now make up a large part of the Lake District National Park preserving the landscape for generations.
