Chatsworth – September, 2025

Chatsworth – September, 2025

We headed east to Derbyshire on the last weekend in September for a camping trip.  Our campsite was a Caravan Club site in an old walled garden on the Chatsworth Estate – so location wise it couldn’t be beat.  We were given a key when we checked in which...
Camping in the Hope Valley – June 2022

Camping in the Hope Valley – June 2022

For our second camping weekend we headed east to the Peak District – and the Dark Peak in particular. The Peak District is split up between the White Peak and the Dark Peak, named because of the colours of the limestone versus the dark grit stone. We stayed...
Our first camping trip in… well, a very long time!

Our first camping trip in… well, a very long time!

A few weeks ago, we took our first camping trip in Frank for a very long time – I think maybe about 18 months…?  We went to the Peak District to a campsite called Greenhills Holiday Park which is just between Bakewell and Ashford in the Water.  Of course...
Tideswell

Tideswell

We took off from work a day early and headed to the Peak District for the weekend.  We usually mark the weekend closest to Guy Fawkes Night as the last camping weekend of the year by going away… So despite the van being out of action, we decided not to break...
The shortest camping trip ever…

The shortest camping trip ever…

So last weekend we headed across to the Peak District with Stella and Frank. Our destination was a great campsite nestled in the valley at the bottom of Kinder Scout and very close to the oldy worldy village of Hayfield. Hayfield is used in filming when a set of an...