Day 15 - camping among the apples

Day 15 and we are one sixth of the way through our trip! We have moved further east today, not a massive amount as we found a campsite we really wanted to visit. It was a late checkout this morning, we didn’t have to be off site until midday so we took it nice and easy. I made the most of the amazing showers, even though I wasn’t stinky yet! Then we packed the van up then headed out for a dog walk to make sure Marla was tired out for the short journey and supermarket stop.
We have been spoilt with being able to walk from site on footpaths into the forest, so we took advance of this and did a good hour out and back. Then off to the supermarket, driving past a convoy of old school tractors!) where it was Charlie’s turn to go in. My only request was for sushi for lunch and some Black Forest gateaux as we’d not managed to have some so far - he did brilliantly. The cake was so light and airy, it was absolutely delicious! And the sushi was super tasty.
Then off to find some diesel and LPG, this is where we hit our first problem of the trip. We had bought a pack of LPG adapters after doing our research, unfortunately none of these are actually any good for our van! They have the wrong diameter thread… so LPG refill was aborted and the right adapters (we hope!) have been purchased from Amazon and would arrive tomorrow.
The new site is quite different from all others we’ve been to so far. It’s set among a huge orchard and is a bit smaller and fuller than we’ve stayed on so far. It’s nice, but I feel like we have been squeezed in a bit. There is a small enclosed dog field with a loads of equipment in, so we’ve had a few off lead blasts in there and Marla had the biggest of zoomies when another dog said hello to her through the fence. I think she’s missing regular interaction with other dogs….
We had a nice light dinner this evening of cous cous, falafel and salad - which was lovely as it’s been a lot warmer this afternoon than we’ve been used to!
After dinner we had a little stroll around some of the orchards and into the edge of the woods, where we let Marla have some more off lead time - and she promptly found a giant mud puddle 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ thankfully no face rolls, just some muddy paws to deal with.Leggi altro