Time on the road with us

I'm usually first up and crawl from the tent bleary eyed, depending on volume of cocktails bleary ness is more so on some days than others. Stove lit first to boil kettle for a cuppa tea for Craig and a cafitiere of coffee for Nik and I. We're missing our wedding gift purchse of a Nespresso machine. On a quick get away it's the "lucky dip" cereal or on a more relaxed morning it's a bacon and egg's ( twice so far!). On some mornings it's jump in the car and fuel up Olly and us. The routine of packing starts, beds deflated, tent empty and wiped down inside and the puzzle of the repacking. Once on the road we resume our position's and the journey begins. But only once the destination is programmed into the Satnav and invariably re-programmed as it struggles to find some of the locations then we hit the road.

We generally only stop to re fuel. Ours is a road side picnic which to date consists of "ham" we think, cheese, mayo and crisps. Our diet is not so good!

On arrival Nik & Craig head in to fix a pitch and hand over Nik's drivers licence for their security. All the Windy campers try to pitch together but some of the campers are directed to "camper city" so we join up for evening drinks normally by Jezebel and Milly our 2 camper vans. Milly comes fully pimped out with LED's, light up spice rack, hot and cold water, porter potty loo, bar area and most importantly her hanging baskets and very large pole with wind sock so we all know where she is.

Now, our camp set up is currently a competition between Craig and Nik to pitch tent. We choose a Coleman instant 4, supposedly erected in 1 minute. So far Nik has it at 51 sec's Craig last night managed 31 sec's. Tonight we're treating ourselves to a hotel so the competition of erecting is on hold until tomorrow !

Then it's the turn of the bed's being blown up and the campsite comes alive to the sound of electric pumps running off the car's. it's become a strangely re-assuring hum because it means beer-o-clock is almost upon us. Kitchen set up, chairs out, showers had (well some of us) and the party an then begin. We're currently alternating between BBQ, stove cooked pasta something and we've had some teaam meals out, making the most of cheap food and beer. It would be a crime not to when a beer costs sec£1.00 and a bottle of champagne in Romania was £6.00!

A cozy night is then had all packed in our tent. Nik takes the middle and Craig and I either side. Craig fits his industrial earplugs and off to sleep we go, weather permitting. so far we have had blistering humid heat, torrential rain and lightening. Then tomorrow comes and the adventure begins again,we're a bit like the Littlest Hobo!