On the Road Again!

We had to cancel the trip to Norfolk as at the beginning of the week Claire had a tooth ache that developed into an abscess in her front upper jaw. As well as the pain, her face swelled on one side.  After two emergency visits to the dentist this week, we thought it better not to go 180 miles from home. I emailed Nelson's Patch and hoped as the park wasn't full that they could let us delay the trip a few weeks. No reply. I checked on the website and pitch 9 is shown as being vacant.  They also have only ten of the twenty pitches booked tonight for the weekend. So it's not as though they were turning people away!   I guess they got my email. It would have been nice to have got an acknowledgement from them.  Next time I won't bother with this place. It shows a lack of respect when not bothering to reply. I have checked my spam folder as well. Nothing.

We have stayed at Nelson's Patch before and when I was looking for a weekend away at the end of the school holidays I thought it would be nice to go again.  Two nights and hopefully the weather will be better and we can take a walk to the coast and maybe to Happisburgh  and see the lighthouse and the beach.  Last time we had a walk locally but Reggie wasn't too enthusiastic as the road past the entrance to the site doesn't have a decent path, and the traffic was flying past. Hopefully, the pub right next door will be open this time as we will be there Friday and Saturday evenings!

Monday. With the weather continuing to be good we set off from Wells. Pretty much backtracking along the A149 to Sheringham.  We once again had hours to cover 30 or so miles. So we decided to stop off at another National Trust site at Fellbrigg Hall. We have been here before. I set the satnav to take us there when we were half way along the road.  We had thought to simply use Google Maps but one of the turns looked too iffy for the van. In the end the Ohrex took us on a weird square trip off the main road down the muddiest single track road. We encountered a 4x4 coming the other way with just enough room to squeeze past each other.  Then we were back onto the same main road around 200 yards from where it made us turn off! It hasn't ballsed up like that before. The right turn into the hall's long driveway was only about 400 yards further up! We parked up by backing into a space, separated from an Autoquest 185 by a fence. He had been luckier than us and avoided muddy lanes...

We have three nights already booked in Norfolk. Two nights at the Caravan Club site at Seacroft near Cromer, and one night at Pinewoods at Wells next the Sea. So now I have added a fourth night. Another place we have seen on The Frenchies Motorhomes vlog.  It's called Nelson's Patch . All the 14 pitches are named after ships that fought under Admiral Lord Nelson at Trafalgar. The site is very recent and is still being developed. There are bushes planted  between each pitch that when they grow up should provide some privacy. So which ship did I choose?  Dreadnought . It's Pitch 13 in the corner. The road is the grey line at the bottom of the above site map and so I wanted to be as far away as possible.   There are walks nearby and once I get the confirmation through I can see when we can get in.  The night before we are at Wells and so it's only about an hour between sites.