Roady's Roamings

The Woolpack allows a few campervans in the car park, but only when the Eskdale campsite is closed. 

Coniston beer festival is held at the Britannia Inn Elterwater. There are no local campsites open this time of year, so a search on Google maps satellite view identified a couple of lay bys that could function as a park for the night. All went well, good beer a good bit of crack (Cumbria for talk, not drugs) and a quite night.

We've been back home 3 weeks now and sorted out all the paperwork and fixed all the things that didn't work in the house. We travelled from Dover and stopped at one of our favourite Pub stopovers at The Red Lion in Old Marston near Oxford. They have a large car park at the rear of the pub, no facilities but a friendly welcome, good food and good ale.  We were hoping to use Doxey Road Lorry Park, Stafford to empty the toilet etc. Unfortunately there are no longer ady facilities there. So a cup of coffee and our last Patisserie together with a bit of planning was called for. 1. Just go home, 3 hours driving. 2. Go to another Pub.  We decided on number 1 until we put home in the satnav and discovered there was a accident on the M6 with a 30 minute delay. Option number 2 looked more inviting, a quick phone call and off to The Boat Inn, Cheddleton.  What an excellent choice! Nice little pub with car park by the canal and a couple of skeletons climbing the r...