Brooks on Tour

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...

We had enjoyed camping for many years and had worked our way through a series of tents each one larger than the last.     We were hardy campers preferring natural sites without electric hook up however, in 2013 we got cold.  We were camping in East Anglia in June, we couldn't get warm so bought ourselves a fan heater and hooked up to the electric.  We began to wonder if we needed to rethink.  On our return home we went out looking at motorhomes and caravans but couldn't decide what would best suit our type of holiday. We liked the idea of being able to travel with our "home" and stop where we wanted in the same way that we had done with our tents so, decided to hire a motorhome for a week to give us an opportunity to try it out.  The idea to make it an adventure with plans of driving up the west coast of Scotland appealed so we found a motorhome hire company in Scotland and booked flights to Glasgow for September 2014.  Howev...