Van Love Festival and afterwards!

Back in November 2024 I booked us a space on the runway at Elvington so that we could go to the Van Love Festival. It's a fair way off and when I checked the dates we almost had a clash!

The night before I had already booked us into the Leas Cliff Hall to see the Illegal Eagles in concert. This means that we have an early start to drive up to Yorkshire. It's a fait way and I think it will be quite arduous on a Friday.  The earlier we get across the Dartford Nightmare then we can just dial in the cruise control and plod up there.  Where we will be on the runway is anyone's guess.  We have a standard ticket and so that could be anywhere!  The runway is long and is used on other dates for land speed record attempts!

We will be away sometime on the Sunday afternoon. The Festival always finishes with all the vans leaving in a convoy along the runway!  I have seen it on YouTube but it will be a sight to see and take part in.

So what about afterwards? It's a long drive home and we will need some services so I was looking at sites open around the M1/A1 gap on the way home.  Maybe even a pub stop.  Nothing really caught my eye.  A few of the pub stops had no reviews and a lot of them that did, weren't all that full of praise!  Maybe only those that have a problem or aren't 100% satisfied write reviews?

I have plumped for another Caravan Club site.  This time at Castleton, Derbyshire, in the Peak District. A site that gets good reviews and one that is near to some of the walks and also caves.  It's the area where the semi precious stone called Blue John us found underground.

I have been here before back in the mid-90's but we couldn't park anywhere in the car and so we headed out to Speedwell Cavern to the west where we could park and go into the cave. I doubt with Reggie about that a cave will be high on the list of things to do! I have booked two nights so we have a full day in the area to relax and charge all the batteries, ours and the vans! With it being July I am hoping for some sun so that the solar panels on the roof and the one for the Bluetti will gets some decent input.

From there we will have all day to drive home.