Devizes Camping and Caravan Club Site Friday 29th January - Sunday 30th January 2016

A quick weekend visit to Devizes. It had been just over a month since our last trip away but we had completely forgotten the order to do things.  We couldn't understand why the caravan wouldn't move out of its parking space at the storage site and then discovered we had left the wheel lock on, on site we forgot to close the drainage for the water so lost a whole barrel of water - so stupid.
Once we sorted ourselves out we visited the Three Magpies pub at the top of the lane by the site and enjoyed ham egg and chips and a drop of 6X.
Saturday we went to Devizes for a wander in the sunshine after heavy rain overnight, It was very cold out of the sunshine.  Devizes is such a busy interesting town with a good market that is always worth a look at.  We both slept for most of the afternoon, we were both so tired.
Our microwave has been replaced after the plastic seal melting on the door so we tested it out with some Waitrose ready meals, all working fine.
Devizes is a nice site, handy for us for winter weekends. Lots of walking available on the canal towpath and the town of Devizes not too far away, however, we do find the pitches small. You have to park in front of the van which blocks the light into the van and restricts our view of what is going on. The showers in the facilities are push button which is really annoying especially if you are washing your hair with your eyes closed and you need to find the button again and again in order to rinse the shampoo away.

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