Gloucs & Worcs (June '19) - Day 9

3 sunny / hot days in a row - aka, Summer! Up to 30 degrees today - the hottest of the year!

Today was what I think might turn out to be a  "typical" touring day - doing very little but enjoying every moment of it.

It started with a cup of tea in bed looking out the window at the morning Worcestershire sunshine. Followed by a fry up and a long reading session in the heat of the midday sun. Tilly has made friends with the old couple at the van next door and bolts over there at every opportunity.

View from the bedroom window

Big news - we tried out Brunnehilda's shower for the first time today - separately obviously!! She works really well - although a couple of lessons learnt ... the plug hole is so small it doesn't take much hair to block it up and ... 2 showers just about used up a whole tank of water! Luckily this wonderful site has taps at every pitch so Brunnehilda could be quickly and easily re-filled.

Squeaky clean we headed off for an afternoon trip out. Firstly to a caravan accessory shop near Leominster. Its website suggested it had a showroom the size of a small field with every conceivable item under the sun you might need for your caravanning pleasure -we wanted a chair. In reality it was a room the size of a suburban new build lounge- the power of marketing?

Ah well, undeterred we went onto Ludlow. The countryside in this part of the world is beautiful. Although we concluded that when it came to "poshness", we suspected the good folk of Worcestershire probably looked down their noses a bit at the Herefordians.

Ludlow is a wonderful little town - lots of history, a castle, a river, quant streets and shops. Mind you try getting a cup of tea / coffee after 4.30 on a Saturday afternoon!? Thankfully Costa came to our rescue and we enjoyed our iced coffee watching the world go by just outside the castle gates.

View from our seat outside Ludlow Castle main entrance

As the day was so hot we couldn't leave the dogs (aka Dumb and Dumber) in the car and had to bring them with us. So we had 2 pulling, wheezing, snarling, whining dogs to negotiate around Ludlow. Now here's a confession ... whenever I saw other people's kids I always thought ours were a credit to us and better behaved. The opposite is true when it comes to dogs - everyone else's dogs seem to be walking peacefully to heal while ours are like a couple of leashed Direwolfs.

Dumb and Dumber aka The Direwolfs

Home to the Old Orchard via Tescos at Stourport to buy tea and get rid of breakfast!! We ate outside, We weren't treated to a gorgeous sunset but it was a beautiful evening, the temperature now much more comfortable - even cool enough to take the dogs for a walk around the fields - although they hardly deserved it!

A smashing day was rounded off by live streaming the Killers set from Glastonbury on my i-phone and my Harmen Karden speakers (part of my leaving present from work).

Brandon being live streamed into Brunnehilda

And so to bed .. the last day of our first real trip with Brunnehilda and Isabella. Hopefully this first of many more to come.

In the words of Brandon ... "I got soul but I'm not a soldier!"