Brooks on Tour

Glastonbury is famous for the Glastonbury Music Festival but each year another Glastonbury music event takes place, the Glastonbury Extravaganza which is held in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. This is a much smaller event than the main festival it is for one night only but usually has some superb musicians performing. This year Van Morrison and Jamie Cullen were playing and we had tickets.  As a special treat we had booked ourselves a few nights at the Old Oaks a luxurious campsite on the outskirts of Glastonbury.  We had requested a pitch in the Terraces as this gives us a view over the local countryside. The pitches are well spaced, many with hedges between pitches giving a feeling of privacy.    The facilities at this site are wonderful always warm, very clean, with good quality fittings.  There are individual unisex rooms with shower, handbasin and loo as well the usual ladies and gents facilities. For events such as the Extravaganza, The Old Oaks arran...

We collected the caravan from Webbs and headed to Salisbury Caravan Club Site to check on the new mover. Salisbury site is set on the side of a hill, there are lots of pitches in bays, some have just two pitches in amongst the trees which make it feel very private.  There are more open pitches at the top of the site.  We chose a hardstanding pitch towards the bottom of the site, the facilities block is at the top of the site and requires a walk up a steep slope.   With all the trees around the site attracts lots of birds, there are limited views although some pitches at the top of the site can see over the local countryside.  We liked this site a lot because of the pitches.  The site is handy for visiting Salisbury, a park and ride site is nearby.  We only stayed for one night just to check over the caravan following its service, everything was fine.

We took our caravan to Webbs in Salisbury for its annual service, we had also arranged for a paintseal treatment to be done and a new motormover to be fitted.  Our previous caravan, the Unicorn Seville had been treated with Paintseal and we always found it easy to keep the external paintwork clean with any mud or road grime washing off with minimal effort and very few black streaks running down from the windows or roof. We were keen for this to continue.  Paintseal also treat the interior carpets and furnishings to help reduce stains from spillages.  When we purchased the Cadiz, we had transferred our motor mover from the Seville.  We knew that the mover was a few years old and although it hadn't let us down we were concerned that it may do. As our mover is crucial at our storage yard we wanted the assurance of a new mover.  We chose the Powrtouch Evolution which was fitted by a Powrtouch engineer.  The service was completed without any problems being noted...

Making the most of the lighter evenings we booked for Exebridge Lakeside Caravan Club site on the Somerset/Devon Border.  It took us 3 hours to get to site using the A 303, across to the M5 motorway at Taunton down the M5 to Tiverton.  Whichever roads you choose Friday night is always slow, using the A roads rather than just the motorway does give you more options.  We got pitched on site in around 1/2 an hour and then the Exmoor rain started. We had  noticed that lots of caravan owners have a dog, and had been looking for our own for a while.  We had recently acquired  George and this was his first trip with us. George enjoying the view Saturday we went to Dulverton for pies and then on to meet friends at their new home in Minehead which has fantastic views of North Hill and the Bristol Channel.   We returned to the van in the afternoon to read and enjoy the view from the caravan.   Sunday morning we pa...

Over recent years we have arranged a weekend away with work colleagues.  These have always been good fun with lots of games and alcohol.  We had booked to go to Blackland Lakes near Calne in Wiltshire, not too far from our work base to enable everyone to arrive at a decent time and enjoy Friday evening.  The site has several fields available including a rally field and a field that seems to be seasonal pitches There is an outdoor undercover barbeue area and bar, fishing lakes and some pet goats.   We were pitched in the first field with caravans up against the fence for the electric and the tents pitched in front of us.  This was fine as we knew everyone but it would have been too close otherwise. For our evening meal we decided on a takeaway, so orders were taken, phoned through and people were despatched to collect the food from nearby Calne. After a few drinks and some silly word games we went to bed.  Saturday morning after breakfast some of the...