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We left home at 12:30pm after a quick trip to Tesco to stock up on supplies. This was a very last minute trip, but with time on our hands and crap weather in Norfolk, we thought we may aswell have crap weather in Wanda.
This journey will be about some real old fashioned English culture as we head north to Northumberland and Bamburgh Castle, home of Uhtred of Bebbanburgh from The Last Kingdom and to visit a display of costumes in the castle from the TV Series.
So far we’ve had a good journey, with fairly quiet roads and very few hold ups. We set the cruise control at 60mph and pretty much cruised all the way.
Our first day has brought us into Yorkshire, Ellie didn’t fancy driving the whole way there non-stop so we’ve checked through park4night and the first spot we found was just outside Selby on the edge of Selby Forest. We stopped here for about 90 minutes which gave us a good chance to take Ella for a quick walk and have some dinner as it was now 5:30pm.
During dinner we realised how noisy the road was and on top of that we had no phone or internet signal.
Fortunately I had already found another place nearby so after dinner and washing up we moved 10 miles away to a much quieter spot on the edge of Skipwith Common nature reserve.
The common is absolutely silent and pitch black except for the sound of owls.
At 8pm we couldn’t believe it as we were joined by a vanlifer and at 8:30 another one pulled up next to him, now we have the symphony of owls and sliding doors. However we do feel slightly safer having company and this is is far nicer than the woods and so far my worries about wild camping in the UK have been misguided.Read more