Friday 9 March 2012

21st trip - The Quiet Site Keswick again

Our twenty-first trip was for 2 nights at The Quiet Site in Keswick again.
This time without the kids who stayed at their nannas.
We came up in the spare car and picked up the towcar without any problems this time.
When we arrived at our caravan pitch and we went to connect the electric cable to the hook up spot and we saw that the point was already taken by a camper van that had pitched up earlier before we had arrived and taken our point which was directly behind our van. The next available one was too far away for our cable to reach so I had to go and ask them to unhook and use another because that was ours.
They did so without question. The only trouble was that their cable wasn't long enough to reach the next hook up point so we we lent them our spare cable, which they gave back to us when they left on Sunday morning and thanked us for the loan.
We spent two nights in the Quiet Bar in front of the log fire almost burning our legs and faces which was a lovely warm experience and most welcome because it was very cold outside.
On the morning that we were coming home there was light snow on the ground.
As we were leaving we went to pick up our hitch lock key which we had left with them because we had had to leave our caravan there for the past 2 weeks due to towcar problems. They couldn't find it at first but eventually did after a phonecall to the owner to ask him where he had put it.
The owner was a lovely chap, but the lady who we were dealing with this time questioned whether the owner had really offered us free storage for the 2 weeks that we had to abandon our caravan there and whether we had paid for the 2nd weekend that we had stayed there. (we had of course paid).
Anyway, it's a beautiful site in a fantastic part of the country.

The Quiet Bar


Friday 2 March 2012

20th trip - The Quiet Site Keswick again

Our twentieth trip was for 2 nights at The Quiet Site Keswick again.
Our Caravan has been left here all week because our car had broken down here last week.
We drove up in our borrowed car and we went to the Ford garage and picked up our towcar and then parked up both cars to have a look at the Caravan Club site in Keswick, because we had originally been booked on here but had been cancelled because the lake had flooded the site. When we had finished looking around that site we came back to the car which at first wouldn't start. Oh no, not again! But then it did start so we went back to the other car and had a wander around Keswick and upon our return the car would not start! We called out the Ford garage who had just supposedly fixed it and they towed it back to their garage.
So we had to leave the caravan again all week at The Quiet Site for free again. We booked to come bck the next weekend.

A view of the pub on site