The English weather is starting to be a bit of a pain will it or won't it rain, fog, mist, drizzle then late afternoon the sun sometimes peeks through the clouds and there is a ray of sunshine. Will be nice to leave Headland Caravan and Camping site the Owners of this Independent site were not very forthcoming with information on the layout of the site or where our pitch was. The father drove down the hill between the holiday home lets and grass area where the tents and caravans/motorhomes were pitched stopped to talk to a chap parking his caravan and left us to help him. When I approached him he pointed to a spot in front of that chaps caravan with a lovely view of the Portaloo, toilet/grey water dump site, dishwashing area and overflowing bin. Can’t win them all we have had a pretty good run of clean well managed sites with great helpful Wardens and views to die for.

Late start today, checking our map of highlighted places of interest in Cornwall/Devon we having seen to decide whether to go there or not, as all the fishing villages and beaches along the granite rugged coastline are starting to look the same. After checking the places on the internet (Widemouth Bay, Bude, Hartland and Clovelly a private old world village where you pay over £7.00 each to enter) we thought we would give them a miss and just take the A39 to Daddon Hill, Wembley to pop in on Richard’s cousin Jeremy and wife Ruth.

We are now getting smart with the Satnav when we left Tintagel on the coastal road B3263 it tried to take us on a shortcut near Boscastle a beautiful picturesque village with harbour squeezed in the gully of a valley pity there was nowhere to park, but we just followed the white line down the road to the fork to stay on track. No stress today fine sailing with the navigation, normal views of the countryside lots of sheep, cows, wind turbines, crops, farms, rolling hills, winding roads up and down valleys lots of tiny villages. Only one section of B3263 to near Tresparrett was a hedged lane where you hope a car is not coming in the other direction that is when one parks in the little layby for approaching cars to pass.

Smooth run now on the A39 but the only problem is there are no petrol stations and we don’t like getting below a quarter of a tank and the Satnav is telling us there is on at the roundabout before Barnstable seven miles past Jeremy’s place. The bridge over the River Torridge is very high and huge with a great view up and down the wide river. £84.27 (£1.169 for 72L) for diesel no need to panic and a good spot for lunch.

Barnstable Green Village shopping Centre is where we had to go to re-register my mobile Vodafone PAYG top-up as my 30 days is up and my credit for calls has run out. All sorted now for the rest of our stay in the UK and Richard don’t have to worry being partly parked on the yellow line.

Finally caught up with Jeremy, no problem finding his home in Daddon Hill Northam virtually drove back the same way we came to Barnstable. Ruth is out with the grandchildren for the day but we enjoyed a lovely cuppa with Jeremy highlighted places of interest on our map and had a good chinwag. Time was marching on and Jeremy booked us in to the Westacott Farm Camping and Caravanning site in Abbottsham (his friends stay there).

As we were tired we will go to ASDA Bideford tomorrow, found the site down a very narrow road to what looks like a working farm (can see sheep) booked in and set up camp for the night in a field with other families in their tents and caravans.

The only problem we had here was the Laundry they have a new domestic washing machine (small one) and dryer £1.00 for 15 minutes is a bit rich especially when I had to put £4.00 in the dryer and the clothes were still wet. The poor motorhome looks like a clothesline what a laugh. Hopefully all is dry in the morning, sweet dreams to the calling of the lambs.