Bye bye West Country

Thursday 27 September

We were up early again today, it is becoming a bit of a habit and we don’t like it. It’s all go now and will be so till we arrive in Malaga for out winter break. First we have to go back to Burton on Trent for Josie’s 21st birthday bash. We needed to get an early start as we need to go to the store to drop off all the final bits of camping gear that we can do with out and the bits that were left over from the alterations to the front of Campy. It filled the floor of the van!

So we were up and ready to go to shower when looking out the window we saw the middle aged lady from the campervan next door ambled over to the shower block in front of us. No matter we thought, as we have a load of washing to put in the washer and by the time Petra had sorted it, she would surely have finished. No chance, 10 minutes later Petra came back to the van and explained the lady was still in the shower. It turns out she would push the button on the wall starting the flow of water. all would go quiet and about one minute or so later she would press the button again! The amazing thing is it really was cold in the shower block because there is no heating. Another 10 minutes later and there was still no sign of the lady. Kev decided to go in and have his shave and find out what was going on. 

Inside the block it was exactly as Petra had said and the shower would only intermittently go on. He carried on having his shave and cleaned his teeth. As the shower lady was still working on the best way to get a constant flow back to the van Kev went. 45 minutes later out she comes without a by your leave and ambling back to her van. Kevin was out the van like a shot and passing her on the way, she grinned nicely and made no comment, Kevin grimaced likewise and also made no comment.

Both eventually showered and breakfasted we set off at 9.00am arriving at Portsmouth storage depot at 11.30am. we unloaded the things for storage and took them up to the room. It took us till 13.30pm to finish all the things we needed to do including sorting our new space in the van. Once finished we signed out and made our way to the campsite for the evening. 

We are now on a farm CL not far from Newbury.