Wortley Hall was our first stay in November and is a beautiful looking building, however it was booked out to a wedding and it was raining. In better weather I think there are some lovely walks around the hall to do. We went for a run and then headed toour next stop, Greetham House a CL near Oundle (anyone remember what a CL is? If not go to the blog post in early October). The entrance to the site isn’t brilliantly sign posted and we had a bit of a mix up as nearly went up someone’s drive way before realising our error. The site is on a farm and is really reasonably priced as it is very basic, there is EHU (electric hook up) and very basic waste disposal and water. We did not use the water as we had enough left from the Lakes. Greetham is very beautiful and had two great looking eateries, one was not open on a Tuesday and the other it was not clear if it was open or not. We decided to give it a go as we had not really spent any of our « eating out Â» budget. The pub was open and it was pie night. We both had pie and chips, Toby had a couple of pints and I had a couple of glasses of wine. The food was amazing and it was a really good price (£32 for everything).

We left Greetham after walking Merlin in the morning having tea and breakfast and doing our leaving checklist (will provide a link to this when we add to the blog!). Getting out of the site was also interesting as it was quite a narrow road to pull out on however it was quiet. The drive to Cherry Hinton in Cambridge was again an easy drive. It was a lovely site and as I had phoned them ahead of time to let them know how long we are and how much we weight they had saved us a pitch. It’s a relatively small club site and was quite busy considering we were out of season in November. We were booked for a week although I knew that I was going to spend a couple of days with my mum. We walked into Cambridge after night one, it was quite a long way and although I could probably walk to the train station to get the train to my parents – we decided I would get the bus. The walk to Cambridge was wonderful, it’s such a beautiful city.

On the Friday I got the bus to the train station and then got the train from Cambridge to Colchester and then from Colchester to my parents. It felt very strange waiting for the train at Colchester as we used to live a few miles up the road in West Bergholt and had driven past Colchester station many times. This time Toby was home alone with Merlin in Beatrix! I enjoyed spending some time with my Mum and my brother helped out by giving me a lift back to the Cherry Hinton campsite so my nieces could get to meet Beatrix.

We had another day in Cambridge this time getting the bus in and having lunch in town and having dinner out at the local pub to the campsite. We scooted (electric scooters) to the local Tesco which was fun to do and there were a lot of electric scoots in Cambridge. We also tried cutting Merlin and had a degree of success although not perfect. 

Thanks for reading

Sally, Toby and Merlin