We set out on Thursday last week for a weekend away in North Cornwall but didn't travel far, just to Crossways to stay with my sister in law for the night which cut an hour off the next day's journey down to Newquay and onto Watergate Bay. It was a good decision and meant we could listen to the stormy winds blowing hard outside from the comfort of a bedroom instead of the motorhome.
The next morning we set off and stopped briefly in Bridport for a few things from the Morrisons there before making steady progess to Exeter and onto Okehampton. We stopped for a break and gingerly continued down into Cornwall, constantly aware of the buffeting the motorhome was taking due to the high winds. I was pleased to have got a sat nav which allows you to enter the dimensions on the vehicle as it meant we took a different route into our campsite avoiding some of the narrower roads which beribbon Cornwall.
We had a chat about naming the motorhome, which seems to be common practice, and have gone for Amy from the Amethyst part of the name. Maria didn't like Jasper which would have come from the number plate.
It was our first time camping with electric hook up and it did make a difference, mainly with the access to hot water. We got filled up easily enough when we arrived using the water point and despite not having the correct hose fitting. Jamming the end into the tap seemed to work well enough.
Hooking up was easy and suddenly everything worked. Two sockets meant we could have differing devies charging or working e.g. kettle and iphone charger but it was not long before you wished for an adaptor so you could have TV and VD player together. The TV worked by the way. The magnetic base aerial was brilliant. It just lost out whn water was running for some reason.
The best thing we discovered this time was how good the shower is. It's a hand held shower with a trigger, something like you'd find on a garden hose. It was powerful, flexible and easy to adjust. In fact the bathroom facilities worked incredibly well. That goes for the toilet too. Not my natural area of interest but the toilet cassette was easy to remove, empty and then... Well, I was going to write 'add to' but that would be taken to mean something else. I mean to set up - blue chemical, water and slotting back into place.
It is amazing how quickly you got used to the whole process, especially as the closure of the onsite facilities meant we were all having to cart the waste round to the disposal area where there was always an embarrassed remark or two to be shared.
As we had already discovered, cooking on the four ring gas cooker was great. The beds were comfortable and that first night we watched some TV, played games and I watched the football on my phone whilst sat in the front passenger seat enjoying the views across the campsite and a few drinks before lights out.
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