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Our first camping trip starts tomorrow, Wolds Way in N Yorks for 4 nights. The car is packed (we've actually got pretty much everything in there!) just a few bits to do in the morning and then we're off. I'm nervous in that I don't know what to expect but excited as well and just hope the weather isn't too bad (I'm expecting it to be bad so anything less will be a bonus!). Having a day in York, a day at Flamingoland and a day on the N Yorks railway from Pickering to Whitby so won't be on the site very much really.

Will report back on Friday how things went...

To anyone else venturing out this week I hope you have a great time and good luck with the great British weather

Andy

Hi Andy

Have a fab time and a safe journey

weather looks good tomorrow for whitby area. I have been checking because i am taking the kids to Goathland to get the steam train to Whitby. 

seems to be showers for the next days after though but you might miss them

GL

Sea life centre at Scarborough is a good day for little ones and a lot of it is indoors. Some car park stickers you get from the highway robbery pay and display machines have a fiver off admission. Do hope it gets better for you.

Good luck Andy,

Wolds way is a very good site and I really enjoyed it last year, but being situated on top of a hill makes it very exposed to the wind. If you fancy a good pub meal, get off the train at Grosmont and walk 50 yrds up the hill on the left, fantastic food!.

Well we're back home after spending the planned 4 nights at Wolds way. I'm pleased we stuck at it as we did have a great time despite the weather. The campsite is fantastic which no doubt helped, we had a fantastic day at Flamingo Land on Wednesday (and nice weather). The site was getting busy as we left today (all the bank holiday arrivals). I've got mixed feelings overall about our first camping trip. I'm not particularly looking forward to the next one but then again it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. The weather definitely made the week a much bigger challenge than it would otherwise have been and I suppose if we've survived a week like this then things can only get better (they can't get much worse weather wise). Not sure we'll get another chance to go this year now and we'd need to invest in a trailer and/or roofbox before our next trip (my parents helped us out with their trailer this time). I would say that an EHU made things a lot easier and I wouldn't like to have been without one! Evenings were very chilly and it was nice to put the heater on which soon warmed the tent up, without that it would have been quite uncomfortable and damp.

Anyway, we survived it and I haven't been put off camping for life so I suppose it was a success. Here's to the next one...

Andy