Our departure time gets closer and, being complete novices at 'motorhoming', we still don't know how things work: vital things such as our water system and the toilet! With limited weekends free and recent weather disgusting we haven't been able to practice living in our van so we booked a night at a nearby campsite last weekend with the intention of trying to figure out all the systems. Frequent weather checks, on the run up to our weekend, showed the outlook gradually getting colder and colder, Steve eventually decided to stop checking, as it was almost as if Mother Nature was having some kind of joke! Saturday came and we packed the van with blankets, quilt, a multitude of garments made of fleece and woolly hats (a tip of my mums: 'you always have a better
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