Motorhoming again

So after Roger tested negative for Covid, we quickly finished packing, did some shopping, booked a campsite, and headed to the Northwest to Wyreside Campsite & Fisheries. A nice site mainly focused on the fishing.

We picked this campsite as it is near The Fleece Inn near Dolphinholme, a lovely pub we have used in the past, as we were meeting a good friend for lunch who was driving south down the M6, and The Fleece Inn is about 10mins off the motorway.  Lunch didn’t disappoint, Rog had a steak & ale pie, a proper pie – one that has a pastry bottom!. Nic had a fish plater, lots of fish!

Enjoyed a couple of walks around the fishing lakes, but didn’t do much else, just got use to using the motorhome again.

On Friday, continuing our slow trip north, we moved to the Marina Campsite in Maryport, via a coffee stop at Sizergh Castle in the Lake District. Sizergh Castle is a Tudor mansion house with parts dating back to the 1500s, now managed by the National Trust (so free access with our Manx National Heritage passes) and still the home of the “Hornyold-Strickland” family. Notably, Catherine Parr lived there for a time following the death of Henry VIII.

The café was really busy, surely Catherine Parr didn’t have to queue for coffee!

Fish n’ chips in Maryport for dinner, the quietist and slowest chippy we have ever been in, but to redeem it the fish n’ chips were good.

The Campsite was good, however it was very windy. Walked to the lighthouse at end of the harbour to watch the sun go down.

Saturday, decided to booked our next camp site, pin in the map again and we are going to Silver Craigs campsite in Kirkcudbright. Pronounced ‘Kur-KOO-bree’, as a dyslexic Rog loves to hate the English language!

Sunday we drove for 2 hrs and 97 miles to get from Maryport to Kirkcudbright, which is 23 miles as the crow flies across the Solway Firth. Silver Craigs is a community run site, situated in an elevated position above the town, but really close, so we had a walk around the town.