Motorhome Meanderings

We are Peter and Linn, enthusiastic freedom campers, and we set up this site to illustrate our travels in a motorhome, we hope that you enjoy it. Please feel free to use the contact form to get in touch if you have any comments or questions, we are always happy to answer any questions.

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Lymington and Keyhaven – October 2020. A wet and windy weekend going back in time and enjoying nature at its best.

Keyhaven – tranquil overnight stop

Keyhaven

Keyhaven – the view from our van

Keyhaven – early morning

Keyhaven marshes and salterns

Hurst Castle

Hurst Castle – salt crystal stalactitess

Hurst Castle

Hurst Castle – no light ventilator

Hurst Castle – ammo hoist

Hurst Castle

The IOW from Hurst Point

Keyhaven marshes and salterns

A Summer Road Trip around Devon – September 2020. In 1949, my parents Mo and Alan, undertook a Summer Road trip around north Somerset and Devon in an Austin 7 Ruby (749cc and 7hp). Seventy one years later, Linn and I attempted the same route in a motorhome (4.2 tons and 7.6 meters long). We tried to recreate some of their photos, and have added a few of our own.

The route

Dunster High Street

Dunster Yarn Market

Mum and Linn at the Yarn Market

Harbour, Lynmouth

Tor Hotel

Appledore, Ship Hotel

Appledore main thoroughfare

Doll’s House

Instow from Appledore

Mum with gas cape, Linn with Covid mask

Bude Bay

Boscastle Harbour

Boscastle

Gull Rock

Boscastle Coastguard

The White Horse, Bampton

Doofus (or is it Doofi?)

Dunster Castle

Dunster

The Yarn Market, Dunster

The dovecot, Dunster

Inside the dovecot, Dunster

The footpath to Dunster

Overnight near Dunster

Porlock Bay

Overnight on Exmoor above Porlock

St Mary’s in Oare, where Lorna Doone was shot by her half brother

Lynmouth

So wet in Devon, they have wipers on the inside too

Lynmouth

Boscastle

The Wellington Hotel, where mum and day stayed three nights

Boscastle

Boscastle Harbour

Boscastle

A water surge through a cave at Boscastle

Boscastle

Boscastle Harbour

Boscastle

Tintagel

Port Isaac

Wimbleball Lake

Appledore and Bideford – July 2020. A cautious couple of nights away, social distancing amidst the crowds, loving the friendly locals, but dismayed by the rule flaunting visitors. Enjoyed fabulous river side walks to Bideford and The Burrows.

The ‘wake up’ view from our door

Appledore

Scuplture celebrating the hard working boat builders of Appledore

Appledore

Pub garden, Appledore

Appledore

Lunch on Northam Burrows

Northam Burrows

Lady Bug larvae

Northam Burrows

Appledore

Hi jinks at Appledore

The high tide bell, Appledore

Steam launch, River Torridge

The boat graveyard, River Torridge

River Torridge

The walk to Bideford

Swallows and Amazons, River Torridge

Bideford

The new bridge at Bideford

The Old Market, Bideford

Butchers Row, Bideford

Studland and the Purbecks – July 2020. A post lockdown weekend away, blowing away the cobwebs, but keeping it local.

Walking the Purbecks, Portland in the background

The mushroon tree

Grange Arch

Walking the Purbecks

Walking the Purbecks, Portland in the background

Walking the Purbecks

A Green Veined White butterfly

Marbled White butterflies

Teasel, once exclusively used to remove impurities and raise the nap of woolen fabrics

Walking the Purbecks

Fort Henry, Studland

Walking the Purbecks. 10,000 years too late to walk from Old Harry to the Isle of White

Walking the Purbecks, Poole Harbour

Walking the Purbecks, Swanage

Boys and their toys

Sunset over the Purbecks

Colwyn Bay – February 2020. A bleak weekend away when even the comforts of a campsite could not persuade us to stay a second night. Sorry Colwyn, but you are not very motorhome friendly!

Colwyn Bay

Grange, Steeple and Studland – December 2019. The last trip out for 2019, a cold and foggy couple of nights in Dorset.

Grange Arch

Studland

Grange Arch

Grange House

The Pig, Studland

Old Harry rocks

The Race, Old Harry rocks

Bath Christmas Market – December 2019. Now an annual event with friends.

Bath Christmas market

Bath

Bath Christmas market

Ludlow and Abergavenny – November 2019. A wintry weekend around Wales

Ludlow weir

Ludlow

Ludlow weir

One of seventeen original gates to Ludlow

Ludlow

Ludlow Castle

Overnight on the Sugarloaf

Towards Abergavenny from the Sugarloaf

Not much of a view, up in the clouds at the summit

The summit, Sugarloaf Mountain

Keepers Pond, Abergavenny

Keepers Pond walk, Abergavenny

Spoil tip from Big Mine, Blaenavon

Blorenge (or Blorange?) hill range

Abergavenny basin

Crug Mawr mountain

L to R – Crug Hywel, snowy Crug Mawr and the Sugarloaf

Steeple – July 2019. Two nights in the Purbecks to test the new solar charging system and leisure batteries – working a treat!

Overnight stop

Portland in the distance

Ridgeway walk

Stonewall – Ridgeway walk

Ridgeway walk

Studland, Grange and Steeple – June 2019. Another short trip to Dorset on what turned out to be the hottest weekend of the year so far.

View from our overnight stay

Grange arch

Dorset meadow

Dorset downs

Poole harbour

Purbeck pointer

Agglestone rock

Cotton grass

Old Harry rocks

Old Harry and the Needles in the distance – once joined together

A welcome sight

Little Sea, Studland

Truffle looking for kingfishers

Sunset from the van

Tyneham, Dorset – June 2019. In December 1943, the army took over the village of Tyneham for use in preparation for the D Day landings. Everybody, with very few of their possessions, were moved out being told that they could move back again after the war effort. They were never allowed to move back into their family homes, and the village is now stuck in that time warp as a poignant reminder of days gone by

Tyneham

Tyneham – laundry cottage

Tyneham

Tyneham – the last entry in the school register

Tyneham

Tyneham – Tom, a man after my own heart

Tyneham

Tyneham – the note left by villagers on the church door as they left

Tyneham – lovely sentiments

Tyneham

Coast path

Worbarrow Bay

Kimmeridge Bay

Rockslide at Worbarrow

Lazing at Worbarrow

Lulworth Range

Coast path

The clouds rolling in off the sea, Steeple

Overnight on the range

An early morning wake up – racing pigeons released over our camper

West Pentire, North Cornwall – May 2019. A couple of days exploring the north Cornish coast

Overnight stop at West Pentire

West Pentire

Antique gramophone workshop – West Pentire

Crantock Bay

Crantock Beach

Crantock dunes

Coast path

Roosting gulls

Poly Joke Cave

Inside Poly Joke Cave

Poly Joke Bay

Poly Joke Beach

Jouvenile Peregrine Falcon

Poly Joke Beach

Towards Padstow and beyond

Coast path

Grey seals

Coast path birds

Holywell Head

Holywell Bay

Coast path

Crantock Bay

Crantock Estuary

Coast path

Coast path critters

Coast path flowers

Bath – March 2019. A visit to the shops and sights of Bath gave us a great excuse to stay at Bath Marina again and one of our favourite walks alongside the River Avon