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They issued a similar warning earlier in the year when we were in the area at Easter.
Still caught people out though. Luckily there is a lifeboat station on site!
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I think that after 13 years with our own boat and visiting the same places again and again, obviously where the water could take us, that we are very much enjoying travelling with the motorhome and exploring new places again.
We are enjoying the sense of freedom it gives us. Waking up somewhere new every day if we choose and exploring parts of the country that we have not seen before.
We loved the boat, but we did find that it was becoming restrictive and we were getting bored of visiting the same places again and again.
We have done lodge holidays as well in Cornwall which while nice do mean that you are tied to the one spot for a week, always coming back to the same place. It isn't something we are that keen on.
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13 hours ago, Mouldy said:
We have friends who live near Inverness. Our plan is to hire a motor caravan from Inverness, leave our car with our friends and take maybe 10 days to go around the tour. We’ll have to see how things pan out. We were going to do it this year, but foreign travel restrictions caused the NC500 to be far too busy last year and I was fearful that it would be the same this.
As long as monkeypox doesn’t replace Covid to create another pandemic, maybe next year.
We had 16 nights in our motorhome on the NC500 last year and it was nowhere near long enough. So many places to see and visit along the way. We loved it.
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6 minutes ago, grendel said:
The benefits are that they are a lot lighter than lead acid, and you can use 100%of the battery capacity., Of course if you can fit a permanent system you will be better off.
We bought a lithium battery for the van (Sterling Amps 100ah). It was £500 and you can use 100% of the capacity of that.
A solar panel and charge controller would be a lot less that the £350 extra you have paid for the "power pack"
The lithium battery has bluetooth monitoring inbuilt so you can keep an eye on cell voltages, discharge rates, charge rates cell temperatures etc.
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A lot of the van lifers have these. Never really understood what the benefit is over a domestic battery and a solar panel installed on the van/boat.
Probably cheaper to install equipment on the van as well with the price of these units!!
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4 hours ago, Smoggy said:
Can you still stop at the WRC for a lunch/beer break for free and shower for a quid? That was very handy last year as a land shower is always better than a boat shower.
Used to love having a shower on the boat. It was like having a jet wash in wardrobe, very refreshing.
Spoiled now with the shower on the van. It is massive compared to the boat shower and it has heating in there. Luxury.
We always use the shower on the van now even if we are on a site.
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12 hours ago, Tobster said:
You can get diesel at the Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club, best to call them for price and availability, it will be a lot cheaper than Brooms.
We always found RNSYC to be more expensive to buy fuel then on the Broads.
But needs must when you arrive at Lowestoft with the fuel gauge most of the way down the red
Goodchilds were always competitive with their fuel prices. We always used to head there on our way back out of the Broads to fill up.
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Now they look nice.
Might try those on the van thanks.
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7 hours ago, Tempest said:
The mind is a wonderful thing and people can get very set in their ways!
My wife will only have Cod......albeit when I have been to the chippy and for an experiment, bought Haddock instead (and not mentioned it), she has eaten it without hesitation or thought that it wasn't her favourite choice, because in her mind it was Cod.
I went to a social event last week with my brother, his wife and my son.
They had 2 lagers on offer (Carling and Coors)
The Coors was frothing like mad and took ages to pull a decent pint, but my brother and sister in law both insisted on Coors because they can't stand Carling!
I later went to the bar on my own and asked for 4 pints of Carling, but could they put 2 pint in a Coors glass for me because I couldn't be bothered waiting for a pint which was so difficult to pull.
They did and my brother even commented "now that's a proper pint"
Yep...........
Ohh what a powerful thing your mind is!!🤣
There is something very wrong with your brother if he can't tell the difference between Coors and Carling
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Congratulations. Looks like a lovely boat.
Think our old boat Naughty-Cal is moored in Broads Edge. Give her a wave from us if you see her
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On 23/04/2022 at 18:01, DAVIDH said:
Just got the email: Brinks Prelude, their shortly to be finished, hybrid powered addition to the fleet
https://www.barnesbrinkcraft.co.uk/hire-boats/prelude/?mc_cid=fc0c2637fa&mc_eid=eb82ea0ec7Aside from the fact it isn't a boat we would hire due to the large number of berths, it is nice to see them bringing back some of their older hire boat names again.
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The last time we ate in the Reedham Ferry it wasn't very good but we have never had a bad meal in the Surlingham Ferry.
We are looking at doing a weeks trip to the Broads area next year and the Surlingham Ferry is high on the list of places to visit.
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As an alternative have you considered the 2.7kg refillable bottles that you refill at an LPG station. Gaslow make them and a few other brands.
We have 2x11kg refillable Gaslow bottles in the motorhome with an auto change over and they were worth every penny. They will pay for themselves in the next year or so. Even with LPG prices being high at the moment they are much cheaper to refill than an equivalent Calor exchange.
Some places are having LPG supply issues but there are plenty of filling stations around. We are ringing ahead to check that places have it in stock at the minute.
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6 minutes ago, Happy said:
The dog looks like he could well deserve the name, bless him!
Oh it is well deserved.
He was suspiciously on his best behaviour over the long weekend.
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Time to head home on Easter Monday along with thousands of other people. We didn't rush off. We had a lazy breakfast of goose egg and soldiers before taking out time to pack up, which really doesn't take long.
We decided to head to Old Hunstanton on the way home. It wasn't really out of the way for us.
After a couple of hours in Hunstanton we set off back on the road. As expected the traffic was heavy and it took us a good 45 minutes longer to get home than it had taken to get to Norfolk. But we expected that so it came as no great surprise.
Now looking forward to the next outing next weekend to Scotland to visit family.
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We decided to stay local for our last day and explored the joined villages of Burnham Deepdale and Brancaster Staithe. The food in the White Horse looked amazing but we already had supplies onboard to cook a roast beef sunday lunch so we didn't eat this time. Definitely will next time though.
The dog was glad of a quieter day.
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On our second day we decided to walk along the coast path to the village of Burnham Overy Staithe. It is only a little 5 miles each way but it is fairly heavy going on the lumpy bumpy path. We knew we had walked the distance when we got back. Luckily there is a lovely pub in the village at the half way point for some refreshments.
And after that long walk we were ready for our mixed seafood dinner bought from the fantastic Fish Shed and cooked in the open air on the Cadac.
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After a walk around Wells and a coffee break on the van it was finally time to head the 7 miles back up the coast to Burnham Deepdale where we were booked onto the lovely Deepdale Camping site for a few nights.
The site is lovely and in a cracking location with some amazing shops and fish shacks within walking distance.
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We may not have the boat anymore but we still enjoy a trip to Norfolk when we can in the motorhome.
This time it was a trip to North Norfolk.
We left home in Worksop early to avoid the worst of the traffic and after an uneventful run and a pit stop at Farm Cafe for breakfast we were parked up in Wells next the Sea town car park by 9.30am. Far too early to get onto the site we were booked on down the road of course so we had a wander around town and visited the excellent butchers to stock up.
The weather was lovely so we were surprised to see so few boats in the harbour.
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On 12/04/2022 at 09:44, oldgregg said:
Indeed, quite a selection of cookware on that cork-tiled bulkhead.
I think my favourite feature has to be the flue for the stove, though.... I don't think I've ever seen one done like that
Excellent hand warmer for working the ropes through the locks in the winter
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Bramble looks lovely. I hope she fits into boating well.
As an aside we have always found the smaller size of our Schnoodle Sydney to be very useful with the boat and now with the van. We never thought we would own a smaller dog, they were never "our thing". But now having had Syd we realise that size isn't everything.
Syd says hi Bramble.
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On 03/04/2022 at 19:04, Troyboy said:
I see Cool Breeze is back up for sale Bogart. Its a Viking Seamaster 28 with an inboard diesel engine. The 1st owners had it moored near us at our marina. I think they had it for approximately 6 to 7 yrs. It wanted for nothing and really was looked after well. Very nice boat. The only downside is that it has a cassette toilet. Not the end of the world but pump out is better.
There is also a Faircraft 33 aft cockpit for sale at St Olaves marina. Advertised on Boatshed Norfolk. It has a modern looking refit but I don't know anything else about it. I hope this helps.
I like the look of that Faircraft aft cockpit. Nice big roomy boat. Wants a bit spending on it. A nice set of canopies and some new cockpit upholstery and it would look a different boat again.
If we ever decide to go back into boating something like that would be ideal.
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40 minutes ago, Mouldy said:
The increase works out at about 5.21%.
Some of these look painful:
Our other car is Band A thankfully
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53 minutes ago, Cal said:
I remembered to pay the motorhome tax yesterday just before the increase
Just checked and the van tax has gone up by an extra £15 for this year from £280 to £295.
Glad I did do it yesterday now!!
Southwold For The Jubilee
in The Norfolk and Suffolk Coast
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With the van packed up for the weekend we set off on Wednesday evening after work to find somewhere to park up for the night to break up the long journey to Suffolk.
Traffic was surprisingly light given the long bank holiday break and an hour and a half after setting off we were settled in our chosen spot at Fosdyke Bridge on the River Welland.
Even though it isn't that far from where we kept the boat we never made it here by water.
The pub is currently shut so we settled in with a few beers and a homemade lasagne in the oven to watch the sunset and listen to the water lapping on the river banks.