We’ve been following Marianne and Chris from Tread The Globe on YouTube for a long time and we attended the Dekafok charity event in Telford. This was a great event and we met lots of like minded lovely people. We then headed North, parking up at Southport CAMC and visited the Sir Anthony Gormley statues on Formby beach.
Garlieston CAMC in Dumfries and Galloway campsite is a lovely site right next to the sea on Garlieston bay, with the harbour a few minutes walk from the site. There is one pub/restaurant (The Harbour Inn) and one cafe (The Hive) on the main street. There is one small shop in the local petrol station, ten minutes away from the main street, so if you plan to cook your dinners then stock up before your arrive. It’s a nice place for a relaxing break.
We are heading back early from our three week European tour to attend Vanlovefest 2024 at Elvington Airfiled in York. We started off this morning from the aire in Calais, France and arrived at Elvington in the glorious sunshine. This is our second trip to Vanlovefest and we have e a couple of friends attending this year too. We bought our MiRiders here last year so I’m looking forward to cycling past all of the vans on the runway – and we have Lola our Miniature Pinscher pup with us this year (on the back of Wendy’s MiRider).
In this video we leave Ile De Re heading North with four more park ups along the way. We have an overnight park up in the aire at La Rochelle and a wee tour of La Rochelle itself – what a beautiful place. We then spend a couple of days at the stunning Mont Saint Michel campsite and then stay over at an aire in Le Crotoy. We are staying at the second aire next to the harbour that we haven’t been to before. Our final park up in France is the aire at Calais. Whilst we are parked up we have several e-bike tours along the way too.
Episode 2 of our European tour travels coast to coast across Ile De Re staying at three different campsites across the island and touring in between on our MiRider e-bikes. This is a lovey place with many cycle tracks to explore. Our touring spans Loix, Saint Martin De Re, La Flotte, Saint Marie De Re, Rivedoux Plage – starting in the North West corner and travelling to the South East corner. It’s well worth visiting here.
Episode 1 of our summer European tour travels from the Glasgow area in Scotland to Loix in Ile De Re, France. We have park ups in Rugby, England by the canal and aires at both Honfleur and Nozay in France before travelling over the bridge onto the island of Ile De Re. This is the first big trip for our new pup, Lola the Miniature Pinscher, and it’s also the first big trip with our MiRider e-bikes. We intend to tour many of our stops via the cycle routes, so we’ll be capturing footage from the e-bikes as well as our campervan. Lola also has a place on Wendy’s MiRider. Our first impressions of Ile De Re are very good.
We drive from the Glasgow area through Loch Lomond side, onto Loch Long and then Loch Goil. Scotland’s west coast is some of our best scenery and today we drove through the old military road due to the A83 undergoing some construction to solve the repeated landslides. We then visited the Boat Shed cafe on Loch Goil.
On our way North after a week of touring, we stopped off at the CMC site at Barnard Castle. This is a nice tidy site and I look forward to returning.
We visited the CCC campsite at Borough Bridge. This is a nice quiet site on the banks of the river Ure. It is prone to flooding so the electrical hooks ups are raised and there are two large signs informing you of the flood alert warning. There were no alerts when we were there.
Heavy rain did cause water to collect on the pitches and roads.
This is a nice site. Outside the site is quite industrial and it is near the A1M.
We visited Knaresborough, Mother Shipton’s Cave (the oldest tourist attraction in England) and York whilst we were here.
We parked up at the Scarborough CCC for a few days. This is a really nice site, with good bus links if you want to leave the campervan.
We walked along the cliffs of the Cleveland Way into Scarborough and took a trip to Robin Hood’s Bay. This is worth visiting.
We had some starry nights and Wendy was able to try out her new Solo Stove (on top of a table of course, off the grass).
The Scalby Manor local pub/restaurant next to the campsite was good too.
McNaughts On Tour 