Duncan Seth-Smith

Iona visits a Cathedral City

Trip 6: Braham Farm, Little Thetford, Ely, Cambridgeshire. Ely Cathedral The Sat nav took us around Peterborough and down to Ely. It seemed a long route but it was easy driving although there was a…

Iona goes looking for Hang Gliders

Trip 5: Sandy Gulls Campsite, Mundesley, Norfolk. It took us 3 hours travelling and apart from a couple of tractors and some slow older drivers the drive seemed to go quite quickly. This is our sec…

Iona finds a Diving Centre

Trip 4: Fortway Farm, Stoney Stanton, Leics Stoney Stanton is a small village south of Leicester. It once was busy & productive with stone quarries. One of the quarries was formerly known as La…

Iona goes Back in Time

Trip 3: The Lodge Trust, Market Overton. The first recorded mention of the village is in the Domesday survey of 1086 where it is simply called ‘Overtune’. The name is a combination of the Old Engli…

Iona’s Looking for Mussels

Trip 2, Burnham Deepdale camping. Brancaster is next to Burnham Deepdale. The village of Brancaster Staithe to give it the full name, Staithe is an old word meaning landing stage or Wharf where boa…

Iona starts 2023 amongst the Lakes.

Trip 1. Return to Kingsbury Water Park. Sutton Coldfield. It is 4 months since we went away and the motorhome was emptied for the winter. Now it is all back together and filled ready for our first …

Preparing for 2023 Season

It is the time to plan for this years’s trips away. With the energy prices so high the majority of campsites have put their prices up, some have gone stupid while some are reasonable but we s…

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Iona goes looking for Coal

Silverhill Colliery, Teversal, Nottinghamshire. Testing for Gas Silverhill Woods was a mine spoil heap on the site of the former Silverhill colliery which closed in the 1990s. It was subsequently l…

Iona finds an Oasis

Trip 17: Oasis Lakes, North Somercotes, Lincs. This is probably our last trip this year although we did have a trip in November last year. We arrived at the site which consists of a reception area …

Iona goes Cultural in Stratford.

Trip 15: Riverside Touring Park, Stratford upon Avon. RSC Theatre We had an easy drive down to Stratford and the campsite was easy to find. The warden took us to the motorhome service point where w…

Iona goes to Harrogate

Trip 14; Bilton Farm Park,Harrogate Knaresborough We set off on Tuesday morning for Harrogate. The first 80 miles on the A1 and then across country to Harrogate and Bilton Farm Park. The campsite i…

Iona heads East

A trip to Sea Palling in Norfolk.

Bridlington calls Iona

Trip 12: Royal York Yacht Club, Bridlington. ⛅️ 🌬 Two weeks ago we were in York at the Sports ground where we were able to see Yorkshire take on Northampton and then a couple of days later Lancashi…

Another Dependant

When you have a motorhome it is like having an extra dependant in the family. So even when the kids have left home there is still that one member of the family that still needs looking after. Get r…

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