Our Twenty-third trip was to Gibraltar Farm for 6 nights starting Easter Monday 2012 directly from Cartmel. It was good to get a shower after being without electric for 3 nights.
We've been to Gibraltar farm many times now but this time they had installed a new shower block which look really nice. They told us that they had installed under floor heating but it seems that the builders forgot to install a switch to turn it on, because we have ever felt the floor being heated at all, ever, even our future visits, which I haven't blogged about yet.
We visited the new Indian restaurant in the village of Silverdale and had a good meal. The restaurant is unlicensed but you can go to the co-op next door and buy cans of beer or bottles of wine and drink them at your table and they even bring you glasses to drink from.
Here is a video on You tube which shows various aspects of the site and surrounding area.
You Tube Video
Monday, 9 April 2012
Friday, 6 April 2012
22nd trip - Cartmel Racecourse
Our twenty-second trip was for 3 nights at Cartmel Racecourse at Easter 2012.
This was our first caravan Rally and our first experience without Electric Hook Up (EHU).
Our Leisure Battery didn't last very long before it was showing as flat. We got about 2 hours out of it only using the lights in the caravan and occasional use of the pump that makes the taps work.
We had previously plugged in at home to charge the battery but something must have been wrong because it hadn't charged up at all. Using my time machine I can see that there was a faulty connection in one of our cables.
To get us through the 3 nights we just used torches at night, which was no problem and connected the car back up to the caravan and then we could use the taps for washing up. Not such a big problem.
It rained almost all the time but we had a great time.
We went on an organised walk and ate our sandwiches sat on a log in the rain. Brilliant.
On the Saturday night there was a social in the bar which was great, Scouse bingo, raffles, easter bonnets and beer, the perfect night!
On Easter Sunday, we got involved in easter egg hunts, colouring competitions, horse racing with hobby horses and garish waistcoats, boules, welly throwing and horse shoe throwing.
We watched the duck race where 100 small yellows ducks are bet upon with a small prize for the first 3 winners. I never realised how exciting watching plastic ducks can be.
All in all a fabulous weekend.
The route to the racecourse is through the village of cartmel and is very tight for a caravan and it was made extra tricky by the Sticky toffee pudding shop's van parking in the most awkward place in the corner of the tight bend.
video showing the tight approach through cartmel for a caravan
This was our first caravan Rally and our first experience without Electric Hook Up (EHU).
Our Leisure Battery didn't last very long before it was showing as flat. We got about 2 hours out of it only using the lights in the caravan and occasional use of the pump that makes the taps work.
We had previously plugged in at home to charge the battery but something must have been wrong because it hadn't charged up at all. Using my time machine I can see that there was a faulty connection in one of our cables.
To get us through the 3 nights we just used torches at night, which was no problem and connected the car back up to the caravan and then we could use the taps for washing up. Not such a big problem.
It rained almost all the time but we had a great time.
We went on an organised walk and ate our sandwiches sat on a log in the rain. Brilliant.
On the Saturday night there was a social in the bar which was great, Scouse bingo, raffles, easter bonnets and beer, the perfect night!
On Easter Sunday, we got involved in easter egg hunts, colouring competitions, horse racing with hobby horses and garish waistcoats, boules, welly throwing and horse shoe throwing.
We watched the duck race where 100 small yellows ducks are bet upon with a small prize for the first 3 winners. I never realised how exciting watching plastic ducks can be.
All in all a fabulous weekend.
The route to the racecourse is through the village of cartmel and is very tight for a caravan and it was made extra tricky by the Sticky toffee pudding shop's van parking in the most awkward place in the corner of the tight bend.
video showing the tight approach through cartmel for a caravan
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