16 Friday Aug 2019
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#motorhomes, @motorhmenews, Calais, chrismacgowan, Christopher Macgowan, France, montreuil-sur-mer, motorhome, motorhomenews
Montreuil sur Mer is about an hour from Calais and is an attractive small town with plenty of bars and bistros and a town rampart you can walk most of the way round. For me, the killer app however is the aire which is no more than two hundred metres from the town square.
Christopher Macgowan
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09 Friday Aug 2019
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#motorhomes, @candmclub, @motorhmenews, @national_motor_museum, Beaulieu, caravan and motorhome club, Christopher Macgowan, motorhome, motorhomenews, New Forest
The Club has a strong presence at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu – a stone’s throw from the ever popular New Forest Black Knowl site – with its records stored, looked after and catalogued. The display booth tells the history of the Club and shows a video of today’s club and what is on offer.
Well worth a visit with dedicated motorhome and caravan parking and electric car charging for those who have moved across to the future!
Christopher Macgowan
@motorhomenews
04 Sunday Aug 2019
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#motorhomes, @motorhmenews, Alnwick, Breamish Valley, caravan and motorhome club, Certificated Location, Christopher Macgowan, CL, motorhome, motorhomenews
A new CL near Alnwick and actually in the Breamish Valley has to be on the bucket list!
Christopher Macgowan
@motorhomenews
15 Monday Jul 2019
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@candmclub, @motorhmenews, camc, caravan and motorhome club, Castleton, chrismacgowan, Christopher Macgowan, motorhome, motorhomenews, Winnats Pass
Turn right out of the Castleton CAMC site and go through the town and out the other side on your way to Chapel-en-le-Frith and there is the exquisite Winnats Pass. Hard to believe that millions of years ago it was under the sea.
Christopher Macgowan
@motorhomenews
16 Sunday Jun 2019
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#motorhomes, @motorhmenews, Beaulieu, Christopher Macgowan, motorhomenews, National Motor Museum, New Forest, Simply VW, VW
Christopher Macgowan
@motorhomenews
26 Sunday May 2019
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#motorhomes, #ragleyhall, @candmclub, @motorhmenews, caravan and motorhome club, chrismacgowan, ragley hall, The National, Warwickshire
Great event, lovely weather. Ragley Hall, Warwickshire.
Christopher Macgowan
@motorhomenews
14 Tuesday May 2019
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#motorhomes, @motorhmenews, chrismacgowan, Christopher Macgowan, haw wood farm, saxmundham, suffolk
Mostly I stay on Caravan and Motorhome Club sites; firstly because I think they are among the best and secondly because of my close links with the Club. But today I am at an independent site in Hinton near Saxmundham, Suffolk.
It is is a full facility site, beautifully maintained and a delight to stay at. Haw Wood Farm
Christopher Macgowan
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07 Tuesday May 2019
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#motorhomes, @motorhmenews, Adlestrop, Cairngorms, Christopher Macgowan, Edward Thomas, motorhome, motorhomenews, ScotRail, trains, Tulloch
ScotRail does look after many of its rural stations in an exemplary manner. This one in Tulloch doubles up as a bed and breakfast for walkers and backpackers.
Standing on the silent platform I could only think of school English Literature lessons and Edward Thomas’ Adlestrop:
Yes I remember Adlestrop
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop – only the name.
Christopher Macgowan
@motorhomenews
03 Friday May 2019
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#motorhomes, @candmclub, @motorhmenews, bunree, camc, caravan and motorhome club, chrismacgowan, Christopher Macgowan, Fort William, motorhome, motorhomenews, The Caravan Club, Top Ten
I guess we all have our Top Ten Favourite places where we’ve stayed; I certainly do and my holiday in Scotland enabled me to stay at the Caravan and Motorhome Club’s Bunree site near Fort William. It’s certainly in my top ten.
We all have the luxury of having a mix of favourite sites, places, activities, books, films and so on. Writing this blog takes me back to when, in a former life, I did a lot of radio and TV work where you learned pretty quickly you need to have a clear favourite and spit it out without missing a heart beat. At the end of a radio interview I would frequently be asked what my favourite bit of music was to take the programme into the next sector. No opportunity there to diffidently mention a top ten. (For me it was always Mike and the Mechanics “The Living Years”) One hapless MP being interviewed along side me seemed unable to choose her favourite book and the interviewer rather unkindly remarked that if she couldn’t answer a simple question like that there seemed little hope for her career.
When asked for my favourite book back in those rather high octane days I often wondered if as a laugh I might say it was the ACSI Guide to all the aires in France.
Christopher Macgowan
@motorhomenews
12 Friday Apr 2019
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I guess Henley-on-Thames will always mostly be famous for its regatta but, over and above that, at any time of year it has its attractions being on the river and surrounded by the Oxfordshire Chiltern Hills. If you like your wild bird life as I do, this is a good spot for seeing red kites.
Christopher Macgowan
@motorhomenews
