#bongo blog

Happy New Year and welcome to 2018 This year is a special year for us as it is Mrs B’s 50th year so we are embarking on a mammoth 50 things to do/see in her 50th year. So far we have REWIND festival in Cheshire booked, CAR FEST in Cheshire booked, ELO, Ross Noble, Richard Herring, ELF the musical, lots and lots of Caravan & Motorhome Sites to visit, we are also doing the Northcoast 500 in June so…

ADDRESS – KIRK IRETON, ASHBOURNE, DE63JL

3G COVERAGE – O2 / 3 / EE

4G COVERAGE – O2 / 3 / EE

PROS –

RADIO 2 IN THE SHOWERS

EXCELLENT SHELTERED FOREST PITCHES

EASY WALKS NEARBY

PIZZA ON A FRIDAY

CONS –

DOES NOT OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND

TOILET/SHOWER RATING – 5/5

SHOP RATING – 2/5

OVERALL RATING – 4/5

THEY HAVE RADIO 2 IN THE TOILET/SHOWERS!!!!!!

Why don’t all caravan/camping sites have radio 2 in the loo, it makes a refreshing change to listen to someone singing wayyyyyyyyy off key instead of the usual earie quietness.

Carsington water site is so far one of the best sites we have stayed at, its located in a forest setting with very tall trees so is both sheltered and quite, it is also located right next to carsington water reservoir and can be seen through the tress on several pitches.

The entrance is similar to most other C&MC sites with automated barriers and the office and shop. All the staff we met were super super friendly and always on the go.

We have found that most C&MC sites do some kind of food at the weekends and Carsington Water is no different other than it does PIZZA on a Friday!!!!

Most of the pitches are hard standing although there did seem to be a fair few grass pitches and plenty of service water and waste points scattered around the site.

The toilet/shower block is extremely clean and looks very new with privacy cubicles, showers and toilet cubicles.

If you walk out of the site and turn right then follow the road just a short bit you will come to a car park for Carsington Water reservoir where we started our very pleasant walk along the edge of the reservoir to a cafe for a hot beverage and cake then onwards to a set of standing stones art project which was brilliant.

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If you like to watch or take part in watersport activities this is the place.

All in all we love this site the only thing we could find wrong with it is that it doesn’t open all year round.

Mr & Mrs B

We have had Gordon for nearly 2 months and below are our TOP TIPS for happy Bongonaut adventures. (These are only our tips and should not be taken as the gospel) (We will also not be held responsible for any arguments these may create) Buy some decent levelling chocks, these can be used on grass or hard standing and it will stop the blood rushing to your head when you sleep if you park on a hill.…

It all BLEW UP!!!!!!!!!!

We always knew that we would need an awning because of the compactness of Gordon (the bongo not my late father (anyone who knew him would agree you couldn’t really say he was compact)) and we knew we wanted one that we could easily detach if we wanted to drive the van away and leave the awning on site so we bit the bullet and bought a very cheap one to see if it would do the job. We found that…

We always knew we wanted a camper van and always thought it was a retirement dream, dreams can come true (not the retirement unless we win the lottery). Our search started in probably the same way as most people who start looking at camper vans, drooling over vans we saw on the road and on the internet. We wanted something small reliable with as low mileage as possible, we looked at the ever…