2017 - East Horsley for the weekend

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So here we are our first adventure of 2017.   We’ve found a lovely site – Camping & Caravan Club, East Horsley -  We had a friendly welcome from the staff and were shown to a lovely pitch in a quiet corner of the site, having turned down the pitch next to the lady with the two miner birds.   Del’s reversing is really getting good and we were parked up with no shouting “where are you I can’t see you!” – such a familiar phrase amongst caravanners.

We didn’t realise how long it took to unpack everything after packing all away for the winter, not helped by the fact that the electric refused to work and we had to call upon the warden to help – he quickly pointed out that the fuse had tripped; we now know where the fuse box is.  He also pointed out, very kindly, that we hadn’t actually parked up in the correct place and should actually be two feet over to the right oy vey! parking shmarking....

Anyway... having our favourite-first-night-caravan-meal – corned beef curry we are now consuming our second bottle of Prosecco and yawning the evening away.  Early night for us.... tomorrow is “awning day”!

Well, awning day was surprisingly calm and I don’t just mean the wind!   Del was very keen to get going early in the morning so we attempted the awning before breakfast.   Fortunately the previous owners had numbered all the poles which made it all a little easier.  

It took just 1.5 hours to have a full erected awning, ground sheet and all!   No cross words, just some laughter – Del even coped with the pole falling down and leaving a nice scratch on the side of the car...

We left the awning up, it gives you another room, not that we needed it, but in the future we will definitely make more use of it.   On leaving day it took about 30 minutes to dismantle and pack away.   Both agreed the awning is a big success!

The lake at East Horsley site - a beautiful centre piece.

Such beautiful blossom everywhere this year.

The rest of day was spent walking round the beautiful lake here at the campsite, watching the footie and generally being very lazy.   I did have a little craft moment but decided I really wasn’t in the mood.

Sunday dawned to beautiful sunshine again, this really is a very nice campsite and we hope to come back again in a couple of weeks.  Lots of plans for 2017 – Lake District, France and several weekends inbetween.