Friday 25 March 2011

Tide Mill unvisited.

78.5 Miles. Now in Upminster

Gypsy Rover IV at Newlands, Woodbridge.

Gypsy Rover IV at Newlands, Woodbridge.

A neat bit of plaiting don't you think?

A neat bit of plaiting don't you think?

Robin and Jenny, our friends from New Zealand suggested we should have a look at the Tide Mill which wasn’t far from our overnight camp. Well everything went well until we arrived on site. There were several car parks for vehicles of all sizes except Motorhomes. The only place big enough was the Coach and HGV park but a coach driver said that we shouldn’t park there but there were spaces at another car park just around the corner. When we found this other car park there was no way that we could park there without creating mayhem. Ah well, flag it away and carry on in a Southerly direction.

Woodbridge and this historic overhead crane had a height restriction sign at the end of the road. All the road around here are this narrow.

Woodbridge and this historic overhead crane had a height restriction sign at the end of the road.

Other than the narrow one way streets of Woodbridge and it’s quaint buildings the trip down the A12 was not very inspiring, mainly due to most of it being dual carriageway. A short run on the M25 which was in a state of chaos where they are widening it by another 2 lanes and we were soon parked up in another Caravan Club CL site within sight of the M25. Hopefully our next scheduled stop will be more interesting.

Woodbridge where all the roads are this narrow.

All the road around here are this narrow.  Very scary when we were driving down them.

A total of 752 miles, since 5 March 2011

2 comments:

paul said...

A Question.....Has the campervan been built to NZ specs and design rules, are the power points NZ type etc?
Thinking of doing a similar thing when we go over to the UK, but we would have to own it for 1 year in the UK before we could bring it back to OZ.
Cheers
Paul from Sydney

Derek and Dot said...

Hi Paul, We are dealing with an importer in NZ who specialises in caravan and Motorhome imports. NZ rules, we only need to own it a minimum of 90 days before export but the longer we own it the less duty to pay. The cab and chassis must be E4 compliant. Everything else is OK except power points which will be changed to NZ style upon arrival