North Yorkshire - 10 Day Getaway

During the summer we took our Swift Conqueror 570 on it's first proper outing.

Up until now it was just a couple of nights away, but this time it was for 10 nights!

Recently our friends moved from where we live in New Milton up to Pickering in North Yorkshire, so we thought it a good excuse to pay them a visit and pitch up on a campsite near by.

We also arranged from my old friend Mark and his wife Kate to come across from the Wirral in the VW T25 and spend a couple of nights with us.

This was the first time I had taken the rig on the motorways, must say it felt very stable and was a comfortable drive up. Took us 7hrs approx to get up North and that was with a slight detour at the end due to an accident.

Not bad MPG - If I remember rightly it ended up averaging 28mpg which isn't bad for a big lump of a car and caravan!

Didn't take us long to set up and the Royal Signals flag was hoisted!

It was also the first time that we had put up the awning, which was bigger than we thought and worked well for us. This awning had 3 openings, which was great.

Kate and Mark turned up in their T25 and we had arranged with the campsite for them to be next to us which was lucky!

We had some great days out, with a boozy day in Whitby.

Pickering is a lovely little town, which is where our friends Richard and Kjersti live, and we had a great time visiting a few pubs followed by a curry. Which after one too many, whilst having a pee, lent forward and my glasses slipped off and fell into the pan which I then pee'd all over!

That could only happen to me!

That night we also convinced them to bring their tent up to the campsite and stay for a couple of nights. They pitched up opposite us!

York was a wonderful place to visit, to really take it all in required more than a day, but we had a good time. Kiera ended up with a Mulberry Handbag and some perfume so my wallet took a battering, but she turns 50 this year and has to put up with me so money well spent!

We had a day out in Scarborough, which I have to be honest felt a little run down and tired.

The highlight being a ride up on the near vertical Victorian railway.

Whitby is a great place, it rained most of the day, but as we were on a pub crawl it didn't really matter!

Finished the day off with Fish and Chips - How British!

All in all it was a fantastic time, catching up with friends is always a pleasure.

Soon it was time to pack up and head South. No problems on the way back and it took a similar amount of time to get home.

Till next time.............