Well, it’s been a long time coming, but thank goodness, we are finally able to start planning a little trip in our beloved Bluebell the Motorhome. A mixture of saving for our wedding and a ridiculous work schedule has meant that Bluebell hasn’t had quite so many outings last year as we would normally like, so to say we are looking forward to our next trip is a MASSIVE understatement!
We will be heading west towards Oxfordshire for February Half term so have spent a little while this afternoon getting the maps, the cycle books and the new addition to our planning tools, The Caravan Club site book, and having a little look to see what floats our boat. In true Keith and Lydia style, this initial look has turned into a “right, thats all booked then” and I’ve even got my nerd on by making a fancy spreadsheet itinerary!
The truth of the matter is that due to gigs on both weekends of the holiday we can only get away for 4 nights, so we wanted to be especially organised so we don’t waste any of our precious time away with the dreaded “What do you want to do today” discussions! That and I really do enjoy making spreadsheet lists!
So we are hoping to have 5 blissful days of cycling and walking- I’ve found us an ex railway cycle path to enjoy, a canal side cycle path, a day out in Oxford and a couple of hopefully lovely walks. We’ve made the decision to join http://www.caravanclub.co.uk in order to hopefully enjoy some of their Certified Location Sites (5 vans or less). The reason for this is so that we can base ourselves at small site for a couple of nights every now and again so we can switch off and relax – the latter was something that we were struggling with a little at some Brit Stops due to all sorts of reasons. We are still HUGE fans of the Brit Stops scheme and will continue to use their hosts to enhance our time away when we can. 🙂
This is the route we are looking at following; we have booked ourselves onto two small sites for two nights at each, one near to Kidlington (£11pn) and one near to Wantage (£12n) both with electric. We aim to travel home via Thame on the Friday, stopping for a quick cycle down the Phoenix Trail – like you do.
So that’s about all for now, Bluebell the motorhome has her MOT booked in for Monday, so please keep your fingers crossed that she gets through with no problems to worry about.
Do you have any recommendations of places to see/visit etc in Oxfordshire? We’d love to hear from you if you have!
Until Next time,
Lx
Good decision, we love the CL’s, nice, quiet and great value. Have a look back through my blog, most of my UK stuff has been on CL’s. Conversely inspired by your Scottish trip, we are planning a 10 day trip to Scotland during easter!
Oh brill, nice to hear that, I will have a look through your posts, thanks! Aw soooo jealous of your Scottish Easter trip, where are you heading? This will be our first year of not being up there for Easter. We will be in Kent all being well, can’t make the trip up north this year due to our Stag and Hen dos!!
Not sure yet, the one area that looms large in our thoughts though is the Isle of Skye!
Fabulous. Will look forward to reading about it! 🙂 happy travels!
If you’re at all interested in steam railways Didcot Railway centre is a must http://www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/. Right next door to Didcot Parkway station and as it’s half term there’re bound to be “steam” days. Maggie
Ooh, yes we like things like that, thanks for the tip. (My great grandad was a driver on the Flying Scotsman and the Mallard)
How cool is that! My late father was a huge railway fanatic, and also made models from scratch – now my grandson is a big fan too. Didcot is one of our favourite places to visit and it’s only 20 miles away. 🙂
Brill. Will aim to visit! 🙂 thanks!
the Phoenix Trail looks ace, cannot wait to hear how it goes as we may do that next time we are in that area if its worth the trip.
Really looking forward to getting away – will be sure to let you know 🙂