Everything is downhill in Canterbury!

 We're very slowly getting into this retirement lark, it's not gone quite as we had expected.   My wrist continues to give me some 'agg' and I'm still under the hospital.  However, it'll be back to normal soon(ish) so I'll not harp on about it.   This week we found that we had a few spare days in a row (Wednesday-Friday), so we thought we'd do the 'retirement thing' and have a few mid-week days away.   

It didn't take much of a decision to go back to Canterbury, one of our favourite sites and we were quite surprised at how much less it costs.   I worked on the Tuesday so left Del to buy the groceries and pack the van with clothes, this meant we could have a quick tidy-up before leaving for our booked arrival at 1pm.

Sally-Satnav took us a completely different way and we went through villages in Kent that we didn't know existed Lenham? Harrietsham? - very pretty oast house villages.   We came into Canterbury from a different angle, but the journey was pretty good.   We arrived just before 1pm and waited in the queue to be shown our pitch by the always very friendly C&CC staff.   As we had decided to go off-grid we were shown to the field named Middleburgh, a lovely green (and dry considering it's October) field where there was just one other camper.

 

Perfect!   Just one little thing....   we were asked to park on the edge of the field "in the sun" - great we thought, except the edge of the field was sloping and it was at this point that Del found he'd left the levellers at home!   Hmm...  it's "only two nights, we'll be fine" - you don't actually realise just how much not being level affects everything in the van.    The water didn't drain, the kettle kept slipping on the gas ring and I kept waking up with my face squashed up against the wall of the van!   Oh well, it really didn't matter, we coped!

On the Thursday we took the bus into Canterbury - another retirement 'thing' - we used our bus passes!!!!!!!!!   I needed to do some shopping so Del went to have a drink while I was left to browse the wonderful shops of Canterbury.    

The restoration continues.

A little bit of France me thinks?

So is retirement actually starting?   I actually have no idea what day of the week it is.....