Saturday 25 May 2013

Mildenhall 2013

We wanted to try out our new caravan and decided that a few days at the Mildenhall Caravan Club Site would be a good place to visit. We set off on the 17th May and returned on 22nd May. The cost per night at the Mildenhall site is £11. Whilst we were away we visited the Bressingham Steam Museum (where they were having a 'Dad's Army day' ) and the city of Eley. I'll put up separate blogs to cover our visits to these two place. In the mean time if you would like to see the photo's that we took on this trip they can all be seen by clicking here



This is our new Bailey Caravan at the Mildenhall site. The site is, in our opinion, a lovely place with the pitches set amongst the tall pine trees. Some people might find the aircraft noise irritating but it stops over night and we find the glimpses of the planes through the trees exciting. It's a short ride to excellent viewing places for the airfields at both Mildenhall and Lakenheath. Mildenhall mostly has heavy cargo planes and Lakenheath has jet fighters. As usual we found time to visit the Hungry Horse pub and had a couple of meals there. The Hungry Horse chain pubs can be found all over the place but we have found that the Mildenhall one is head and shoulders above the others, perhaps because the vast majority of it's customers are Americans from the airbase and they may demand a high standard. Anyway we are always pleased to eat at this establishment. I'll shortly be adding news of Bressingham and the city of Eley.


Sunday 5 May 2013

Rushden Cavalcade 2013

Sorry about the long delay in posts on my blog. In the past few months I have had a triple heart bypass operation. I'm pleased to say that it went well and we are now regularly walking 5 miles or so. Anyway we will soon be travelling again and I hope that I can get back to documenting our trips on this blog.

This weekend 4-6th May we travelled the short journey up the A6 to the Rushden Transport Cavalcade. I have included a few pictures from the event. The guy demonstrating using a sheep dog (on ducks) is Nigel Russell who has his farm only a few yards from our home. We were looking forward to visiting the Stoke Goldington Steam Rally next weekend but have found that this Rally will not be held any more, very disappointing as we felt that this was one of the best Steam Rallies in the area.









Next time I hope that I will be able to have the time to write more about our travels and I hope that they will be of some interest.