Meet in Tewksbury and a trip in Wales

[Brindisi]

Did some shopping on the way out...
When we where a supermakets we would love taste all kinds of things , the food they sell looks great!
Took this home , mostly snacks
Things we don't see in our supermakets
But also some to put on my sandwich for work tomorrow...
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Chocolats and candy

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Chips
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Cereals
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Glas jars , don't know what the Marmite is but was told it goes on toast....
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Oh and some alcohol we took in on the ferry...
There was a very small and expecife bottle containing some alcohol Mrs. HC choose , it said Dior or so on the box....
I took these larger botlles....and where even cheaper than her's!
But guess her's gonna last longer?

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Lashings of real butter on your warm toast first , then Marmite ........mmmmmm

 

[bvddobb]

You certainly picked the right week to come up here, this week the weather has been rubbish.

And that's the week we're here...



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[MattBW]

Pastrami is nice with soft cheese, garlic mayo, gherkin and lettuce on bread mmmmm


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[TwentyOneThirtyFive]

Also try marmite on cheese on toast, as always spread it thinly. Yumtastic.

 

[Teejay]

Also try marmite on cheese on toast, as always spread it thinly. Yumtastic.

I'd never had Marmite until I was about 34, introduced to it by my wife, now a whole loaf can disappear in just a couple of hours. Its the best thing since .....

 

[Loz]

Also try marmite on cheese on toast, as always spread it thinly. Yumtastic.

With Worcester Sauce..... You did get some Worcester Sauce right??

 

[bigmac77]

Hang on Marmite is disgusting.

Like Welsh Gas said you'll either love it or hate it.

 

[Hotel California]

When we walkt up mount Snowdon from Llanberis we came accros this....
A wooden pole containing lots of coins.
Realy strange the coins don't dissapear afther a while.


Mr. Bossman this would buy me a nice bag off dogfood....

 

[Hotel California]

Some random shots.....
Does he got balls or what...?



During the walk up mount Snowdon


And on the way down



Just cruisin' allong the coast

 

[AlisonF]

Absolutely great pics from you guys and Mieke. Hope to meet up again on your next trip (to Scotland, I hear). Otherwise maybe during my trip over to NL in a few weeks.

 

[motacyclist]

Where is that money tree? We need it now!

 

[Hotel California]

Need to give you the listing on done KM

15/6 Home - Dunqurcke-ferry to Dover - Dungenes / free aire 242km
16/6 Postern Hill Camping in the woods / Marlborough. 271km
17/6 Tewksbury / meet 95km
18/6 no driving/ meet
19/6 Pontneddfechnan / free aire 132km
20/6 Devils Bridge campsite / Aberystwyth 389km
21/6 Llanberis / campsite Llwyn Celyn Bach145km
22/6 Waunfawr / camping Snowdon Park 15km
23/6 Amlwch / Point Lynas caravan park 127km
24+25/6 no driving
26/6 Overton on Dee / camping The Trotting Mare 136km
27/6 Llandovery / camping Erwlow 150km
28/6 Seasalter / free aire 515km
29/6 Saesalter-Dover-ferry to Dunqurcke - home 238km

Done total of 2455km ferry distances not included.
Used 196 liter diesel
Average 7,9 l/ 100km

Wales and UK is great to visit , i have no trouble driving on the other side of the road as we are used to in Belgium.
Do need the co-driver as a xtra eye sometimes , only once did "ghostdriving " on the wrong side for 50m or so until Mrs.HC pointed it at me and once not see the "one way" sing until the upcoming car was flashing and waving his arms....lucky could detour immidiatly!( could happend anywhere)

Done more campsites in two weeks now than three weeks in Norway as we where only 4 night on campsites in three weeks there.
The UK must organise more places to spend the night for campervans.( on the other hand Belgium also got less to many of the free aires)

 

[motacyclist]

The UK must organise more places to spend the night for campervans

Agree, I wish there were more places here where you could just turn up for one or two nights and feel secure, without having to book.

 

[motacyclist]

Average 7,9 l/ 100km

= 35.4mpg, very good!

 

[WelshGas]

Need to give you the listing on done KM

15/6 Home - Dunqurcke-ferry to Dover - Dungenes / free aire 242km
16/6 Postern Hill Camping in the woods / Marlborough. 271km
17/6 Tewksbury / meet 95km
18/6 no driving/ meet
19/6 Pontneddfechnan / free aire 132km
20/6 Devils Bridge campsite / Aberystwyth 389km
21/6 Llanberis / campsite Llwyn Celyn Bach145km
22/6 Waunfawr / camping Snowdon Park 15km
23/6 Amlwch / Point Lynas caravan park 127km
24+25/6 no driving
26/6 Overton on Dee / camping The Trotting Mare 136km
27/6 Llandovery / camping Erwlow 150km
28/6 Seasalter / free aire 515km
29/6 Saesalter-Dover-ferry to Dunqurcke - home 238km

Done total of 2455km ferry distances not included.
Used 196 liter diesel
Average 7,9 l/ 100km

Wales and UK is great to visit , i have no trouble driving on the other side of the road as we are used to in Belgium.
Do need the co-driver as a xtra eye sometimes , only once did "ghostdriving " on the wrong side for 50m or so until Mrs.HC pointed it at me and once not see the "one way" sing until the upcoming car was flashing and waving his arms....lucky could detour immidiatly!( could happend anywhere)

Done more campsites in two weeks now than three weeks in Norway as we where only 4 night on campsites in three weeks there.
The UK must organise more places to spend the night for campervans.( on the other hand Belgium also got less to many of the free aires)

For your next trip, possibly Scotland, then this thread might be interesting
https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/threads/nc-500-new-scotland-coastal-route.14670/#post-156812
Lots of info on the NC500 website.

 

[Hotel California]

Time goes by so fast , today 4y ago we walked up the mount Snowdon !
We had a great trip in Wales and the Tewksbury meet , great memories and pictures .
I do miss Mieke so much ....

 

[motacyclist]

Time goes by so fast , today 4y ago we walked up the mount Snowdon !
We had a great trip in Wales and the Tewksbury meet , great memories and pictures .
I do miss Mieke so much ....

Hopefully next year we can all get together again somewhere. Or even later this year

 

[SimonB]

Time goes by so fast , today 4y ago we walked up the mount Snowdon !
We had a great trip in Wales and the Tewksbury meet , great memories and pictures .
I do miss Mieke so much ....

It was a very nice Meet at the Lower Lode and very nice to meet you all. They have had a hard few years at the Lower Lode with a lot of flooding which they have managed to keep mostly outside. We've been back quite a few times for the odd night. Just such a nice place to wake up with the sounds of swans taking off on the river next to you.

Hope to see you back in the UK sometime.
Best wishes
Simon

 

[kurienp]

Time goes by so fast , today 4y ago we walked up the mount Snowdon !
We had a great trip in Wales and the Tewksbury meet , great memories and pictures .
I do miss Mieke so much ....

Thank you HC for bumping up old posts. Makes for a good read. Looking forward to more people travelling and more travel reports.