Cornwall - The full story!

Sorry for the delay in this post my main car decided it didn't like it's clutch anymore and wanted a new one so have been kept busy over the weekend changing that!

So Cornwall,

Friday evening came and the mad rush to get everything into the van and gone was well underway, somehow nothing was left behind and we got on the road in good time.

Amazingly the M26 and M25 were free flowing which was a miracle!

The journey went well albeit slowly!  We had a 9pm deadline to get to the campsite at Stonehenge and 8.55pm we arrived, phew!  Some of my friends live not far from the campsite so we managed to meet up with them a a local pub which was a nice end to the day.  That night was quite chilly (so I was told, I had to throw the covers off every now and again!) and Amy didn't get much sleep which didn't help in the morning!

We set off after a quick bite to eat and a shower for Cornwall another two or so hours away.  Again nothing on the road so a brilliant poodle towards our next stop at Tintagel, we arrived at the campsite amazed at the views around and decided to stop for two nights here.
A two minute walk from the campsite and we were greeted with the below view!

We had arranged to meet up with one of Amy's friends on the Sunday so Saturday was our day to explore the coast a bit and Tintagel itself.  With a scrumptious lunch in our bellies I begrudgingly followed Amy around the various local shops Tintagel had to offer.  After what seemed like forever we headed back to the campsite to start preparing dinner, out first try at using our new "Cadac Safari Chef" grill.  Chicken fajitas were on the menu for dinner and boy were they nice.  Sunshine, warm evening and spicy chicken not much more a man needs!  As the stars started to come out we retreated into the van for a marathon game of Scrabble, Amy once again defeated me in style I'm sure it was along the lines of 241 - 83!
We slept a lot better that night almost 11 hours...

Whilst waiting for Jane to arrive on Sunday Amy entertained herself with the resident hen...

 Monday morning came and we set off for our next stop in St Minver only a little drive away.  We managed to get a brilliant spot on the campsite, a large section of the campsite had long term caravan's parked up but fortunately their owners were not staying that weekend!

Monday was spent walking from the campsite to Rock and then we got the ferry across to Padstow, If you are planning on staying at Dinham Farm Caravan & Camping Park we would suggest you do the walk to Rock and Padstow, it was just stunning the whole way there and back but make sure you allow enough time!

The original plan was to stay at Polzeath on Tuesday night and then do the whole return journey on the Wednesday but we thought that might have been too much in one go, so Tuesday morning we went to Polzeath as it was glorious sunshine and watched the surfers for a couple of hours during which we had a massive American style breakfast on the beach!  

With the sun still shining we started the slow journey back but with a slight detour to The New Forest where we made our last camp.  We thought for good practice we should just try and find a campsite rather than using the internet to find one, we headed off the dual carriageway and into The New Forest.  We lucked onto a really nice campsite on the northern edge of the forest which luckily had two spaces left!

 We had a slight slope on our pitch so for the first time we broke out the levelling chocks that had come with the van and almost got her level, almost!
Amy was desperate to try out the roasting pan that came with the "Cadac" so we went for an easy option roast to begin with, although we cheated slightly and did chicken breast it was still easy peasey so roast beef is next on the list!

With our last morning upon us we sadly began our final journey home, the whole way Amelie had been behaving herself but so wanted to make things interesting so just past Fleet services on the M3 the temperature gauge stopped working.  Not a problem as she hadn't once got hot the entire time we were away so just to be sure we wacked the heating on full just as a precaution and trundled home.

All in all it was a superb 5 days out and although we didn't have any bad weather or problems we have definitely caught "the bug" and we cannot wait to get her finished over the winter and ready for next years adventures.