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I recently spent a long weekend in Scarborough and noticed that, unlike at many seaside resorts, overnight motorhome parking is permitted in the pay and display parking that runs along Marine Drive, the road that runs around the headland between Scarborough's North Bay and South Bay. This is a … [Read more...]
New Stena Ferries For Belfast Route Ferry company Stena Lines will introduce two new ferries to its Stranraer-Belfast route this autumn. The ships, the Superfast VII and Superfast VIII, will replace the current HSS Stena Voyager, Stena Caledonia and Stena Navigator. The introduction of the … [Read more...]
In a recent post on our motorhome trip to Scotland, I waxed lyrical about these freedom to camp and motorhome park relatively freely in Scotland (although it's important to remember that freedom of access off road does not extend to motorised vehicles). It seems that as always, too much of a good … [Read more...]
On leaving St Andrews, we headed up across the River Tay, past Dundee and Perth and towards Dunkeld, which is a pleasant, if touristy, town whose main attraction was unclear. It does, however, have a small cathedral in a perfect setting - well worth the short walk from the town centre/riverside … [Read more...]
This is a diary of a short motorhome trip to the Lake District a few years ago (click here to view a map of our route). After leaving the M6 near Kendal, we headed along the A684 and then the B5284 towards Lake Windermere and Windermere itself. The lake is scenic to drive around, although both … [Read more...]
It looks like the acts of drunken yobbos may result in restrictions on wild camping around Loch Lomond in Scotland. Unlike England and Wales, Scotland has always offered campers and motorhomers the 'right to camp wild' - meaning that Scotland's large expanses of beautiful countryside are far more … [Read more...]
Wild camping (also known as free camping) is an evergreen topic of debate in the motorhome community - some are in favour, some are almost religiously against it, saying that it is anti-social and gives us all a bad name. I'm broadly in favour, within reason. You sometimes get to park overnight … [Read more...]
Leaving Avila at the not-too-early time of 0930, we picked up the N502 and set course for the Sierra de Gredos Regional Park. We took the route across the top of the park on the AV-941 (also called the CL-500 - not sure why Spanish roads often have two names). We then turned south onto the N-110 … [Read more...]
One of the most commonly talked about benefits of motorhome touring is that you can park up for the night wherever you want - completely self-sufficiently (if you have a fully-equipped motorhome). That's true - to an extent. As anyone who has ever tried will know, restrictions on so-called 'wild … [Read more...]
