Sunday 23rd November 2025

It was wet in the night but cleared up by about 10.30. Gareth and Kerry cooked us a really nice breakfast. We set off about 11.00 and got back to our house in Widecombe about 16.00. We were lucky we got back before dark as our headlights weren't working!

We now have to think seriously about what to do next and whether we have any future as campervanners. 

Intermittent faults are notoriously difficult to diagnose and it is easy to be drawn into a doom loop involving throwing more and more money into "repairs" which fail to cure the faults.

At the end of the day, even if the faults appeared to be rectified, would we have enough confidence in our van to set off on a long journey?

Today we travelled 244 miles (393 kilometres). Our round trip from Widecombe to Kent and back over 3 days was a total of 488 miles (786 kilometres).

Many thanks to all of you who have taken an interest in our travels described on this blog over the past 14 years.

Roger 

 

Saturday 22nd November 2025

It was rainy this morning and it rained on and off throughout the day. We set off east. After a while our windscreen wipers started to malfunction, locking up in the middle of the windscreen. After this had happened a few times we stopped at a parking place on the A303 and called out the AA. The AA person examined the problem but said as it was intermittent it could be caused by anything. We carried on as best we could and managed to get to Ann's daughter Kerry's place in Kent where we stopped for the day. On arrival we realised that our dipped beam headlights were intermittently not working either. It took us no time at all to decide that we couldn't continue with the journey and that the best thing we could do was to try to get back to Widecombe. We are so so sad and disappointed. 

Kerry was very sympathetic and helped us to cheer up a bit.

Ann and Kerry had a good catch up.

Gareth, Kerry's husband cooked us a really nice evening meal and we all drank beer to drown our sorrows.

We had a very nice beef pie followed by sticky toffee pudding.

Today we travelled 128 miles (206 kilometres).

Friday 21st November 2025 

A beautiful sunny frosty day! We left Widecombe at about 13.00 and took on diesel at Trago Mills before travelling east to Amesbury in Wiltshire and stopping for the day at a service area. We had stopped here previously on 2.5.25 - please see this link for what we posted then: 2.5.25

There is a choice of eateries at this service station - Subway.....

Greggs.....

Or Burger King. I have spent years trying to avoid these kind of places but I felt we ought to try one once! 

We foolishly opted for Burger King. You order on one of these terminals. Ann had a chicken burger and I had a vegan burger. Absolutely vile! Why would anyone want to eat at one of these places!?

Back at the van we had cherries with broken ginger biscuits and cream for afters, Really nice after our horrific main course.

Today we travelled 116 miles (187 kilometres). We are at: N51.1788 W1.7796

Amesbury      Street View

Thursday 20th November 2025

We're getting ready to set off travelling in our campervan. It has been in and out of the garage recently for work on the electrics, resealing the rear skylight and having a new front skylight fitted! Very expensive. This pair of pheasants seem to spend most of their time under our bird feeders these days. The male is quite magnificent - pity he's lost his tail feathers.