First days in the campervan

Checked in for our Eurostar train from Brussels to London.  Another comfortable train trip.  2 hours and your walking out of the St Pancras station in London.

We booked a night's accommodation at a hostel near to the campervan depot where we collected the van on the next day, a quick stop for petrol, another stop at Ikea to pick up some bedding and towels, then we were on the road to our first stop in Brighton, Sussex.

We spent my birthday at Brighton and enjoyed the evening on Brighton Pier, which was a lovely way to finish the day.

Breakfast on our second morning in the camper overlooking Brighton beach in Sussex.  We met some lovely English people who were in the camper parked next to us also having breakfast.  They gave us lots of tips on places to see on our way to Land's end.

So off we set to travel through the counties of Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Gloucestershire before making our way into Wales for more amazingly beautiful scenery.

We have been truly blessed to be enjoying the most beautiful weather.  The locals that we speak to have all said that they have not seen weather like this during summer in almost 10 years.  (We secretly believe we brought the weather from home to share).  Our memories of the English country side will be so great as everywhere we have been has been bathed in sunshine.

While travelling through Weymouth we visited the areas that hosted all the water sports for last years olympics.

We took in the beauty of the Jurassic coast with the dramatic coastline and the rock formations dating 240 million years.

There were lots of cute villages and delightful bays looking very pretty in all that sunshine.

 Because we were close by to the part of Cornwall where the Eden Project is situated, we stopped in for a look.  We didn't buy entry tickets to the whole complex as it really needed an entire day to fully explore,  so we just had a look around at all the information at the front of the project.

There has been lots of time for relaxing, a new skill for us that has taken time to develop.

And so finally we reached the westerly point of Britain at Lands End.  Not much there really but the coastline is spectacular and beautiful. It was good to tick it off the list.  

So having reached Land's End, it is time to turn and head north towards Wales for a brief tour through the southern part before making our way to Fishguard in the south west of Wales to take the car ferry to Ireland.

Will bring you some highlights of that part of the world in the near future.  Continue to take care as we are here.

Bye for now.