Yesterday (Tuesday) we decided to catch the train to Aberdovey, which is a little village just south of our site.
Firstly we had a swim in our private pool!!
This is the building it is housed in ...
It's a lovely, heated pool and as there is no one on the site staying in the guest house so we have it to ourselves!
The main guest house is over the road from the campsite and the pool ...
There is our van ... Nigel No Friends! All our neighbours left - I think the weather drove them away! The building on the right is the potting shed ...
The railway station is about a 15 minute walk down a country lane. There used to be an army camp here, which closed in 1966 but was reopened in 1972 to house 3,000 Ugandan Asians booted out by Idi Amin. Most of the buildings have long since gone and the road around the camp is now the motorcycle track.
So the station is now in the middle of nowhere ... when you want the train to stop you have to hail it like a cab!
It stopped and away we went ...
Nice little place, Aberdovey. We had a quick look around before heading back, the weather was deteriorating rapidly!
Today (Wednesday) we left north Wales and headed down to a little site called Longhouse, which is located in Pembrokeshire a few miles south of Fishguard. The drive was pretty good with a few hair raising moments on some of the country lanes, but it's all good fun.
The new site is once again a Caravan Club CL site like the last. We like these sites - they are very small with only 5 pitches and have the basic 240v hookup, water and a place to dump the nasties. Some have showers etc, but with a shower onboard we don't really need them. To us the main requirements are 240, water and a waste dump. These smaller sites are pretty cheap - the last one and this one are £12.00 a night, which is steep by narrowboat standards but free places for motorhomes in the UK are few and far between. It is a different story once you cross the channel, where they are much more welcoming to motorhomes.
So this our view through the front screen today ...
Very nice spot ...
We went for a walk to the closest village (Abercastle), which was just a short walk across the fields in front of the van.
We passed some of the friendly locals ...
The views were super ...
Bombo looking down on Abercastle ...
We walked down to the little bay ...
Loved this house ...
Then we walked back to base ...
This is in the field opposite the site, which just happens to house a 5000 year old burial chamber!
I think we are going to enjoy a few days here. The weather was lovely today and as an added bonus we have a good internet and phone signal, something that was severely lacking at the last stop!
When I was a kid, some friends of friends owned a holiday cottage in Abercastle, and we stayed there a few times -- usually the October half term week. As you know, there's nothing there, but I can remember having great fun on that tiny beach, and we used to walk miles along the cliff path.
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely spot Adam, with the best walks.
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