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Quote: Originally posted by hippy chick on 14/7/2005

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Hi there Rob - First let me say I am so-o-o impressed that somebody actually wants me to tell them something - cool! Love this site.

We usually set off from our home near Junction 28 on M25 around midnight, (sometimes an hour or so later dependant upon how much shut eye hubby's managed first). Then we stop at a services after a couple of hours, (not terribly good at remembering names of them I'm afraid -old age and all), where we have an hours kip, cup of coffee out of the flask and the required tiddle before setting off again. Then we usually stop again a couple of hours later, anywhere handy will do and same routine then don't stop again until we get to Exeter services, (impressed? I know that name of that one!), where we have breakfast and plan to arrive on site just outside of Mevagissey at about 10am even though our pitches are supposed to be available until noon, most people have vacated them much earlier. The site we go to also has a 'holding field' just across the road anyway so no trouble if your pitch isn't ready when you arrive.

Only thing I have to suggest is that if you're a light sleeper like me, it's a good idea to take a pair of those eye shade things like they use on planes as I do find the ridiculously bright lights in the parking area way too bright to be able to sleep at all otherwise. I also in sure we've got a cushion and fleecy throw for each of us too as it gets pretty darned cold in the car at night even in the height of summer. And a few sheets of kitchen roll more than useful to dry my face with after a quick sluish in the loos, (well not actually in the loo obviously - wash basin!), and those little instant tooth cleaning pad things that slip on your finger otherwise you just feel crappy! We usually find that we arrive on site feeling quite bright and ready for the setting up fiasco.

Hope both yours and our journeys go to plan and that you enjoy the night driving thing, we do. Just hate those grumpy guts without caravans or trailers giving us the evil eye.

Less than 36 hours to hols and counting......

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          That sounds like an even longer journey, 12am (ish) arriving at 10am

          That's 10 hours!!  Think I'd rather be tucked up in bed!  LOL

Hi again,

I forgot to mention along with my update that the roundabout on the A30 at Whiddon Down (just before Oakhampton) is  now a thing of the past. The flyover replacement is now up and fully running.

Quote: Originally posted by Robchasburne on 05/1/2007

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Please, please, can anyone explain to me why you want to go to Cornwall, i am Cornish lived at the end of Goss Moor for 20 years amongst the Cornish Alps until sanity prevailed and i escaped away from the dead wet end of England

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It's like me moving from Norfolk after growing up there, lots of people said "why are you moving away from an area we go on holiday to", it's the usual thing of" familitary breeds contempt for the area you live in".

Returning from C & CC`s Sennan Cove site near Lands End a couple of years ago, we mis-timed our departure and it took us 4 hours to get as far as Indian Queens & a total of 12 hours back to Nottingham.

And it was stiflingly hot weather to be stuck in a car

At least with a caravan on the back in a traffic jam, you`ve always got a fridge full of cold drinks and a loo !!!