We spent the weekend at High Laning caravan site in Dent, Dentdale North Yorkshire.
We last came to this camping and caravan club listed site in 2010 or maybe 2009, not exactly sure.
At the time we came it was the dent show and we were in a tent and the site owners packed us in like sardines.
This time in 2013we are in a caravan, our Swift Charisma 540 and we are still packed in like sardines, there is no 6 metre rule at this site, the more the merrier seems to be the motto. There are probably a thousand units here spread across about 5 or 6 fields and they are all way too close.
View of our caravan whilst stood on my car, the tents are really close.
Lots of people at Dent music and beer festival
Just to prove that the sun does shine in yorkshire here's a photo or two
The music festival was located very close to the camping fields and was very handy to come and go as you pleased. The bands were all very well received and were professional in their performances.
The organisation of the music tent was excellent with a fantastic sound crew who looked very stressed at times and got a few rounds of applause themselves.
Some bands were melodic and middle of the road
Some bands were a little more rock.
Some bands were country music and some bands were irish jig.
VW campers were all seemingly parked together so I assume that they were organised by a vw owners club meet.
Dogs were welcomed at the festival and the midges were out in force
Nice looking cakes on sale from a pink vw campervan
Pizzas for sale and cooked in a train locomotive steam box
These 2 ladies are wearing hats bought from the shop in the photo below
I just bought a Firepit from Tesco and filmed myself building it.
We spent the next 3 hours keeping warm in our garden and we could easily imagine that we were camping out.
A few bits of wood, some bellybutton fluff and a Bear Grylls Fire starter.
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I used my iphone4 to film myself whilst assembling my new fathers' day barbecue.
At first I was convinced that there were some nuts and bolts incorrectly supplied.
In the end I was left with 3 spare washers that I should have used but somehow managed to miss them.
It looks nice and clean now, but I bet it won't stay that way
I've discussed our vegetarian barbecues before and will probably discuss them again.
What can I say, I'm a creature of habit.
When you prepare your onions and peppers and mushrooms if you have them, it is a good idea to put vegetable oil on them to help them cook better. Also the oil drips onto the lava rocks in the gas bbq and gives off smoke which adds flavour to your food.
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Sunday 9th June 2013
Today we went to Myerscough to visit their open day and country fair.
We set off at 10.30am for a 11am start, the journey should take about 30 minutes, so after 2 hours and 20 minutes of traffic jams and wayward sat navs, we arrived.
The sat nav incident was brought on partly by the fact that the open day flyer didn't have the address of the event on it, that I could see and the web had 5 different post codes for their different campuses.
Anyway, we arrived and duly handed over 15 quid for the carpark/entry fee along with about 10,000 other cars. Nice little earner for the college.
We got out of the car and some of our party decided they would spend the first 20 minutes (I kid ye not) stood in a queue to use a portaloo!
Myerscough college is an agricultural college and is massive with lots of different farm/animal and plant related areas of the campus.
There are lots of tractors and motor sport cars scattered about the place and I only took a few photos of these to give an idea, but there were lots of them about.
We stopped at the Sweet Stall firstly but I couldn't bring myself to buy any because the person in front had just been told that their bag of sweets was £7.80 and there didn't seem an awful lot in their bag.
Moving on we found the slot racers room (scalextric for the uninitiated), which was being hosted by a slot racing organisation from Blackpool (big kids). £1 a go, not too bad.
Next up was the Army inflatable which was free, which is my favourite price. The kids spent at least an hour on that whilst we sat and had our picnic. When I say picnic, I mean what was left of it, because I'd eaten my sandwhiches in the car during our traffic jammed journey.
While the kids were building up a sweat I had a walk down to the helicopter called huey which was a Vietnam type chopper with machine guns on each side.
We had a wander around the motorcycle display team arena and a look at the rally cars and vw campervans.
Caravans were used in several of the stalls and I photographed them for this blog, it is about caravanning after all.
At about 4pm we stopped off at the horse arena and watched a display of miniature shetland ponies and a farrabella/cross shetland, they seemed well trained like circus ponies. After that there was an entertaining show between the students and teachers of the college, who seemed to be having a whale of a time.
The show was closing up at 5pm so we headed back to the car park and realised that we had missed maybe half of the show and hadn't realised how big the show actually was and so we will have to come back next year but set off earlier to arrive at the opening time instead of halfway through, so we can get around the whole show. Next years's myerscough open day is on 8th June 2014.
On the way to the car park it started to rain, up to this point it was glorious sunshine, so obviously when it starts to rain you head for the ice cream man. £14 later we all had small ice creams!
We found our way back to the cars and then sat in a queue for about 45 minutes before leaving the grounds and heading back onto the motorway to get home.
All in all an enjoyable day and I look forward to next year.
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Another vegetarian barbecue
On the way to Myerscough. Coke bottle says Laura
Owd Nells and Guys Eatery
The Entrance to Myerscough College
£15 per car for the carpark!
2 diggers - not dangerous at all
The first stall has a hearse next to it, not sure why, maybe floristry
Tractors on display
Quite a few tractors, it is an agricultural college, after all.
Fast Car
This car was later burning rubber doing donuts.
Ambulance display
A caravan, institute of advance motorists, well it is a caravan blog.
Another caravan, selling blood I think!
It's a tank
The Army are here recruiting
£3 for a 2 minute simulation harrier jump jet style
Big Queues at the ice cream man. £2 for smallest cone
More Tractors
Sweeties
Outside the bar, very civilised
Slot Racing for the kids
Arboriculture or tree climbing
A big kid on a tractor
It cuts grass when it wants to, not when you want to
