We started off on 10th May going to Dorset for 10 days with friends who have a caravan. We had some lovely walks and visited places like the Abbotsbury Swannery and Tropical Gardens, Corfe Castle and Bovington Tank Museum.
Following on from there we drove together up to Lacock in Wiltshire, which is a National Trust Village and Abbey and very pretty. (Now we know that it was used for filming the tv drama Cranford) We went to Bath and Bradford upon Avon. The 4 days of the Bank Holiday weekend were taken up with a music festival at Corsham, where we met up with lots of our country music friends.
After the Bank Holiday, Brian and I went on up to the Forest of Dean, an area we had never visited before. We found it so beautiful and there were plenty of walks around to keep us happy.
From there we drove up in to Wales, to a little place called Cynghordy. Friends of friends of ours had just opened a 5 van certificated site there and we were their first paying guests. The site is lovely; 5 hardstandings, lots of grass with trees around, a lake full of fish, hens, ducks wandering around. There is even a stream you can walk up which has wild mink come to visit and the red kites are soaring overhead.
We spent a week just relaxing in the sun, reading our books and generally unwinding. We managed a visit to the Botanical Gardens and also a walk around the RSPB reserve.
We finally arrived home on 16th June having stopped at Lacock overnight on the way back.
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