Down on the Ranch

This weekend the Happy Caravanner will be taking the Fleetwood, yes Fleetwood, probably the last one I know, off to Honeybourne near Evesham. Why? Because my old mate Steve is coming with the lovely Dawn and Steve's 'Cadac' cooked breakfasts are second to none!

Mrs Happy Caravanner and I will be staying at Ranch Caravan Park, Station Road, Honeybourne. If you spot us, come and say hello. Don't moan about anything though because I never put my mallett away! I might even give you a copy of our fantastic Cade's Camping, Touring & Motor Caravan Site Guide.

Ranch is a lovely site in a lovely part of the Country and only about an hour from home. In the village of Honeybourne is a quaint 13th Century pub. You knew there would be one somewhere didn't you?

We will report back on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday to let you know how we got on and how we stayed dry!

Well, we didn't but who cares?

Friday night was dinner at ours. It Should have been ready when S and D arrived, but I mistimed our journey and we were late. No matter. We ate, played a bit of music, beat the intro and all that stuff from oldies, had a drink and went to bed.

Next morning, Steve was cooking breakfast as normal on the CADAC. Mmm! After which we were off to Tewkesbury. Here everybody has a caravan I thought, clearly they didn't want one, but the nice man from the Pru (other insurance companies are available) bought them one anyway while his friends dried their houses out and replastered them! Seriously, the flood must have been one horrendous disaster.

Raining again in Tewkesbury, we parked by the open air market, very handy in the wet. Here you can rummage around under mumerous tarpaulins to see if they have anything you want. Ah hah! Four umbrellas guvnor and two lovely cauliflowers for a pound!

In a gentelmenly fashion, Steve and I guided Ruth and Dawn to the shops where we expressed great interest... in the pub over the road called the Britannia. Not wishing to catch colds Steve and I decided to stay here and make camp. The women came and went, came and went, they never stayed because they didn't like it. Excellent choice of pub.

En route back to the vans, we popped in to the oldy worldy pub in Honeybourne, just to look at the menu. Anyway, the food was very nice and we could not eat any more!

Sunday, rain kept the CADAC cooled as I cooked breakfast, I could have poached the eggs I suppose. Later we went to the Evesham Vale Country Park I think it is called. It has a garden centre, shops, more shops, a steam railway and a man selling kites!

Well it was too damp to do much else, so we made tracks and packed up to go home. Mostly got away with doing the jobs outside in the dry until hitching up, then it p***ed (poured) down and I got soaked. Jumped in to the car with rain running down my back and I was too afraid to put my electric seat on in case it electrocuted me. Ruth kept trying to though!

Well we will be off to Egypt without the caravan in a bit, but when we go to Stamford in June, I'll be back as they say, well somebody did.

After that, Spain. Hasta la Vista baby! HC