Travel to Pevensey Bay - 13th Oct ‘20

After 6 weeks of inactivity Brunnehilda’s on the road again. We picked her up from her Devon sabbatical at the weekend. We took her to her new Northamptonshire home - Welton Fields Farm - for a couple of nights and then it was time to go travelling again.

This time it’s a short 6 day trip to East Sussex - staying away for18th October and our 40th (yep, you read right!!) wedding anniversary. We had planned to go to New England but Covid  put paid to that. Then we booked a big house on the Southwold sea front for 13 of the family but the infamous “rule of 6” kicked that in to the long grass. So we were left with the 3 of us (I’m including Brunnehilda in the maths) in Pevensey Bay for a few days!

We left Welton Fields Farm at about 11.30. Ian, the farmer who owns it is a real friendly and lovely bloke but it clearly isn’t up to Whilton Marina standards. Plenty of weeds and pot holes on the site and not all the high security features of Whilton - which I guess is why the insurance has gone up £85 a year?! That said, we are very happy to have found such a lovely spot for Brunnehilda to rest her head when not travelling. 

We stopped at Cobham services on the M25. Not as good as Gloucester Services, which is in a league of its own, but it was very good. There was plenty of room for caravans and Kim and I had a smashing meal from Leon. A year ago I would have given a jack about jack fruit chilli and would have laughed at sweet corn ribs but now... we’ll it’s all right.

We arrived in the drizzle at Norman Bay Caravan site at Pevensey Bay at about 4 pm. The very friendly staff booked us in and showed us to a range of pitches we could select from. No jingoistic comments about the desired position of our “foreign van’s” front door - which was nice!

We were set up very quickly. I even managed to back Brunnehilda onto the pitch - although it did take a few trys and a great deal of huffing and puffing!

The continued drizzle put us off doing anything too energetic - so we headed for a drive around Eastbourne and then onto a big Asda to stock up. A quiet evening in with our Asda based tea and a couple of episodes of This Is Us - although it took a long time to get the Apple TV and airplay working correctly. A lot more of that huffing and puffing that the caravan reversing elicited earlier in the afternoon!

Eastbourne is bigger than we thought! No idea what we will get up to tomorrow- the weather is due to be slightly better so ... bring it on!