Ashridge Farm Club Site

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Today was the first leg of the journey to Chatsworth House for the Christmas Market.

Rather than do it in one day to Derbyshire, we decided to break the journey roughly in halves.

So tonight we will stay at Ashridge Farm Caravan Club site. It's in Hertfordshire near Royston. 

Everything was going well until the M25 ground to a halt at Waltham Abbey junction. We crawled to the A10 junction and headed north. The first few miles weren't that good as many others had the same idea. 

Then TomTom took us from the A10 across country from Buntingford. We eventually popped out onto the A505 add off again. In hindsight we would have probably been better off going to Stevenage and onto the A1M!!

At least we arrived here around 2pm. The rain that had dogged us most of the way had finally stopped.


There's no 4G signal on O2 here and so we are able to use the free club WiFi. Every hour you have to re-login. However,  we couldn't get the Firestick to connect.

Tomorrow we head to Chatsworth via Tesco at Sandy for some shopping and diesel. 





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