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Love these ScotRail stations.

07 Tuesday May 2019

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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

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Idyllic, Perfection, Can it get Better?

03 Friday May 2019

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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

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The Commando Memorial

02 Thursday May 2019

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My recent visit to the Highlands rightly took in the imposing Commando Memorial which is a Category A listed monument in Lochaber in the Highlands and is dedicated to the men of the original British Commando Forces. Much of their training was carried out in this area.

Christopher Macgowan

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Henley Four Oaks CAMC site.

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

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Moreton-in-Marsh CAMC site in the Cotswolds.

12 Friday Apr 2019

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The ten minute walk into the town makes this site a delight. Moreton-in-Marsh is a smallish market town in the Evenlode Valley and is within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire. It’s on the Fosse Way Roman Road and, of great interest to me, it has a railway station so I can get my train fix.

The site itself is first class and now additionally sports the Club’s new Alternative Accommodation called Experience Freedom. The units are up and running, look great and the bookings are flooding in. Why am I not surprised!!??

Christopher Macgowan

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Brighton CAMC site – open all year.

18 Sunday Nov 2018

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Spent some time this week at one of my favourite sites. With the Brighton Marina a leisurely 15 minute stroll away and Uber on hand for a trip into Brighton itself, it is hard not to like.

The wonderful weather accompanied me from Crystal Palace and I was able to see the two Airstreams which now join some of the other alternative accommodation available on site – with more types to follow on areas of the site not suited to caravans and motorhome pitches.

There’s a lot of talk at this time of year about winter storage and how to prepare for winter and come through it unscathed without any frozen pipes or frost damaged equipment. It’s an important subject if you are to avoid an unpleasant and unwelcome bill next spring when you start touring again. For my part, my motorhome is in use throughout the winter so I just keep it ticking over on the days it and I are languishing at home. It is on permanent Red Alert to depart at a moment’s notice.

Christopher Macgowan

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