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Erde 122 Trailer with Hard Top

The Erde 122 trailer with hard top is a great trailer to get all the camping gear in. Easy to tow. You don't even know it is there. The hardtop is also great as it allows you to keep all your gear secure and dry and also extends the room available in the trailer by a considerable amount.

Highly recommend. Just need to get a hitch lock of some kind.

Outwell Vermont L

After much deliberation and surfing we finally went for the Outwell Vermont L. There was quite a lot of bad press in the reviews which really put us off but wow what a tent. We went for the first time this weekend and it has converted me from the steely camper to the leisure camper seamlessly. It was really easy to put up and to put away. We did take it down to the park for a dry run but apart from that we just got on with it. Best bits are the separate sleeping, living, kitchen areas, also the wardrobe which I though was a bit cheesy actually turned out to be really useful. Also really love my carpet what a luxury. Three sections is great. One for sleeping, one as a living area (with carpet installed) and the final one for cooking, eating and the dog. It also poured with rain on Sunday no leaks. All in all a fab tent.

Only bad thing is the amount of room required to dry the tent out. You need a big garden to put this tent up in.

Camping at Dunstan Hill, Northumberland

Spent the weekend at the Camping and Caravaning Site at Dunstan Hill. The site is beautifully well kept with very friendly staff and visitors. Highly recommend.

Only a 15 minute walk to this beach which was very quite considering the lovely weather.

Lots of good dog walks from the site

Thruscross Reservoir Walk

Went on a nice walk around Thruscross reservoir in the Washburn valley. The walk is about 4.8 miles long and took us about 3 hours. This included a lunch stop and walking with a 4 year old. There are good paths to follow all the way around. I have done this walk a number of times and it is never busy unlike Swinsty and Fewston reservoirs a little further down the valley. Today I think we must have passed may half a dozen people.

Today water was also being released from the reservoir. This apparently happens a only a few times a year and attracts canoeists as the river below Thruscross then becomes navigable by canoe.

Some photos can be found on my WEB Album.

Below is a map and an elevation/distance chart of the walk. Just click on them to open a larger image. I hope to replace the map with one from Google Maps when I have time to work out how to insert one into this blog.

Photos Lake Achensee, Tirol, Austria

Just added some photos from a trip made to Lake Achensee which is in the Tirol region of the Austrian Alps. We stayed in the village of Pertisau which is on the shore of the lake. We stayed in the Montana Apartments which were very spacious and very well kept. An extremely beautiful place with plenty of things to do. Two weeks just disappeared.

I will try to put some comments on the photos at some time. Click on the photo below to see the complete album.

Lake Achensee, Tirol, Austria

Camping at Beadnell Bay

Spent the weekend camping at Beadnell Bay in Northumberland. We stayed at the Camping and Caravaning site which is located right on the sea front. You walk straight out of the site across a road and you are on the beach. There are a lot of rock pools to search for sea critters, although we found nothing.

On arrival at the site we were given a choice of a number of pitches in both an upper and lower field. We decided on a pitch in the lower field as it was isolated from the road by the upper field and a drystone wall. They were trying to allocate pitches in the lower field to people with children which seemed sensible from a safety point of view. The pitches in the lower field were generally flat apart from the ones right up against the drystone wall which are on a slope. Being near the sea the ground was very well drained and even though it rained a lot at night there was no sign of any mud. Even though the site was full there was still plenty of room for ball games. The showers, toilets and washing up facilities were all very clean and well kept.

Click on photo below to get some more photos of the trip. The beach shown is at Bamburgh and there are also some pictures of the tidal causeway at Holy Island. The tide was out so we could not get across. There is also a picture of the Family Kmamsin on our pitch.

Beadnell Bay