Just 2.5 hours from Cambridgeshire and I know I’m back in
the west country, there are hills and gorgeous stone buildings. I annoyed the
sat nav for pretty much the whole trip so it had to recalculate, but I finally
arrived at Far Peak campsite in Northleach, surprisingly at the same time as
the people that live 45 minutes away. Tent up, and on with the BBQ, being eaten
by bugs and lots of chatting and laughing. Having grown up camping all the
time, it’s a shock when we bring people that have never been camping before,
but it was Bea’s first time under canvas. BBQ whilst sat outside in the rain
was a good initiation.
There are some benefits to always waking up at 6am and today
it was the most vivid colours in the sky. Breakfast turned into lunch but it
was a full English breakfast which is huge accomplishment to our chefs. After
lunch activity included a branch that was used as a rounders bat, flip flops as
bases and excruciating heat. The sweat was pouring at this stage, bright blue
sky, an incredibly stong sun resulted in pretty much all of us getting burnt in
one way or another, the worse being Bea’s bright red feet.
We had hoped to go to Stow on the Wold but the sat nav
actually took is 6 miles from it to Guiting Power and the Hollow Bottom pub! http://www.hollowbottom.com/ But the
sat nav made a perfect choice, the village looked like we walked into a
traditional English film set. Dinner in the beer garden, and then back to the
tents for the name game where I had a laughing fit to Kat’s go at ‘ursula
underthesea’, and then progressed to sing it. Maybe you had to be there J
Sunday morning, application of sun cream before breakfast,
and then down with the tents and on the road. The windband camping trip has now
become an annual tradition and I never thought I’d ever say that a little less
heat would be appreciated!
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