Henley on Thames Caravan Club site is ideal for discovering the Chilterns and trips into the Capital.

On the last week of my working holiday, we stopped on the Caravan Club site at Henley on Thames. It’s a great site for being able to get into London and visit the Chilterns too. Also a 10 minute walk into Henley itself makes the caravan site even more appealing.

But if you don’t like too much road noise then try and get a pitch further into the middle of the site. We were on the main road side and although we were not too bothered some caravanners were. The main road to Marlow ran behind us and it did get a little obtrusive but the site had friendly wardens and also generally friendly fellow caravanners.

My caravan pitch at Low Park Wood Caravan Club site

I have just been away in my tourer in the lakes and it was good to see the Caravan Club site – Low Park Wood where I was staying very busy with caravans and motorhomes. The park is one of my all time favourites with wood land settings and river side settings. The park was orginally a gun powder works up till 1935. The National Trust took it over and in the early 70′s created a caravan site for tourers.

Last week I took the opportunity to call in on a business local to me which has been getting an awful lot of good press recently.
Keal Lodge is the current winner of The Caravan Club CL of the Year (that’s certificated location or five-van site to you and me) and is the sister business to Border Caravan Storage.
Nestling in the sleepy Lincolnshire (just!) village of Deeping St James, the venture is the brainchild of Keith and Alison Rogers and…

When was the last time a volcanic cloud disrupted your caravanning? It’s hard to believe sitting here in Lincolnshire on a glorious day that the atmosphere is so potentially dangerous that planes still can’t fly.
It is fair to say that this is an unprecedented World event and seeing the Dunkirk spirit of people does restore a bit of faith in humanity.
My son is stuck in Australia and it could be at least another 12 days before we have any chance of getting him home. Is he bothered? Not a jot! I’ve asked his school to email homework for him – that went down well!
It’s interesting that the ash is actually having an effect on people going caravanning and some of my caravan insurance customers are having the odd problem. For example, the no-fly zone has packed more traffic onto ferries. People who didn’t make bookings, thinking that there’s always space at this time of year, are now struggling.
One customer I spoke to yesterday decided to abort his flight-based holiday to Spain and take the caravan across to France…