UK Trips

Follow our travels around the UK ~

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Dodging the rain in St. Mawes April 2023. A Cornish soaking at our favourite UK campsite. Four days of walking in the rain in search of the mythical Oggy.

Trethem Mill Campsite

St. M\awes

Trethem Mill Campsite

The walk to St. Just

St. Just creek

St Mawes

St. Mawes

Portscatho

A Castle Coddiwomple in Cymru February 2023. A long weekend with a pubstop near the Forest of Dean, exploring castles, eating laverbread and cockles, and going back in time.

Cyril Hart Arboretum

Forest of Dean

Raglan Castle

Usk

Usk Castle

Clytha Arms pubstop

Blaenavon Ironworks

White Castle

Goodrich Castle

The Brecon Beacons December 2022. Seeing out the old year with a wet and blustery trip to Wales. The Four Falls Walk never disappoints, but it was a shame the flooded rivers meant that we could not walk behind Sgwd Yr Eira Waterfall, or enter the caves at Porth Yr Ogof. Tretower Court and Castle was a lucky find and very interesting, well worth visiting. This was our first overnight stop at Tintern, and while the Abbey was amazing as usual, the parking and the pub proved disappointing, so we cut short our visit and headed for the impressive Chepstow Castle.

The Brecon Beacons

Sgwd Clun-Gwyn Waterfall

The Afon Mellte

The bridge over the Afon Mellte

Sgwd Isaf Clun-Gwyn Falls

Sgwd y Pannwr Waterfall

Sgwd Yr Eira Waterfall

Porth Yr Ogof Cave – flood waters stopped us from going in

The Afon Mellte, Brecon Beacons

The Maen Llia Standing Stone

The Devil’s Elbow, Brecon Beacons

Tretower Court and Castle

Tretower Court and Castle – pike, once more prized than salmon

Tretower Court and Castle

Tintern Abbey

Chepstow Castle

Chepstow Castle – the Great Hall

Chepstow Castle

Glastonbury Festival June 2022. Three nights, four very long days in the heart of Somerset.

Glastonbury 2022

Noel Gallagher

Glastonbury 2022 – on the move

Arcadia – the spider sleeps

The Tyre Turtle

The Ribbon Tower

The Pier

The Helter Skelter

Glastonbury 2022 – the site

Glastonbury 2022

The Stone Circle

The Secret Piano Bar

The Dragon

The Sacred Field

The Craft Field

The Unfair Ground

Shangri La

Block 9

Avalon

The campsite – no 6-metre rule here!

Glastonbury 2022

Robert Plant on Pyramid

The Pavillion

Glastonbury 2022

Ziggy Marley

The trailer is a fold-out BBQ

Glastonbury 2022

Paul Mc Cartney

Noel Gallagher

Glastonbury 2022

Sam Fender

The Blossoms

Arriving at Glastonbury 2022

Glastonbury 2022

Overnight on the Jurassic Coast April 2022. From Worth Matravers, probably Dorset’s prettiest village, to deserted Tyneham village, one of the saddest. And a hike along the southwest coast footpath between St. Aldhelms and Winspit, completing the section between Poole and Weymouth for us.

Slow toads crossing……

Worth Matravers village pond

Worth Matravers

Loghenge Worth Matravers

Worth Matravers

Weymouth Bay, Portland in the distance

Chapman’s Pool and Houns Tout

Royal Marines Commando Memorial

Weymouth Bay, Portland in the distance

Stone seat

St. Aldhelm’s Chapel

St. Aldhelm’s Chapel, Augustus Grant who was a serial graffiti artist judging by the number of times his initials are carved into the stone

St. Aldhelm’s Chapel

Purbeck Radar Memorial

St. Aldhelm’s quarry

Dancing Ledge

St. Aldhelm to Swanage Point

Winspit Quarry

Burying Beetle

Our overnight camp

Sunset over our wild camp

Tyneham, sunrise over shrapnel

Tyneham

Tyneham Church

Tyneham, the old school

Tyneham

Worbarrow Bay

Appledore and Lynton March 2022. Two nights of gales and rain in North Devon.

Doone Valley, our overnight view

Appledore

Doone Valley, our overnight view

The Valley of Rocks, Lynton

Lee Beach, Lynton

The Valley of Rocks, Lynton

Woody Bay, Lynton

The Valley of Rocks, Lynton

Appledore

Forgotten, Appledore

Appledore

Northam Burrows, Appledore

New Years Eve 2021 on Portland. A last-minute overnight stop at Portland Heights, overlooking the harbour and fireworks at midnight.

Portland Harbour

Weymouth

Portland Harbour

Radipole Lake. looking for Bearded Tits

The Sandman, Weymouth Beach

Tranquil Weymouth Harbour

Family Jamboree in the Lakes July 2021. Three nights in glorious weather, right in the middle of the Lake District.

Private venue in the Lake District

The Lake District

Isle of Man in the distance

The Lake District

St. Mawes and St. Just in Roseland May 2021. Two nights in a very damp Cornwall, unusually for us, on a campsite, walking and sightseeing.

Our unexpected arrival at King Harry, thanks to the sat nav

St. Mawes

King Harry ferry, river Fal

Trethem Mill campsite

Part of the dog park at Trethem Mill campsite

Trethem Mill campsite

The walk to St. Just

St. Just in Roseland

The Holy Well at St. Just in Roseland

St. Just in Roseland

The walk from St. Just to St. Mawes beside the Carrick Roads

The Carrick Roads

St. Mawes castle

St. Mawes

Polvarth

Tyneham & Studland April 2021. A tentative post-lockdown two-night trip to the Dorset coast. So much has changed since our last visit, access is much more difficult in many places