Motorhomers at last! Yes, the second camper fits the bill! It has its idiosyncrasies but it supplies Gareth with enough trouble-shooting activities and improvement possibilities to keep him happily occupied. In fact, he's so happy that he isn't bemoaning the cold he's caught and seems to be coping with the sore hip, even though he has to clamber up into a high bed each night.
We've been back in Gower with the van since Saturday, camped up in Killay so as to catch up with Owen, Jess, Reuben and Ivy, and prep the camper for a month of living in it. Cheap skates as we are, we've camped ‘wild’ a few nights in the community centre car park. First lesson - make sure to have enough gas to keep you warm when the temperature outside is below freezing! Getting out of bed and preparing the rig to move off before dawn just to get some heat from the engine, isn't the best way to do this! Also, arriving at a basic campsite in the dark, taking ages to find a level spot, only to find that the toilet cassette is full and the local ‘facilities’ unusable, is not clever either!
Anyway, after a night with a couple of bottles of wine, Gareth doing his tax return and the wind rocking us gently as the spirits sang in the waves on the beach next to us, we woke to see day breaking over the beautiful estuary that has been, and still is home to us. We can see across the water to each of the places we have lived in Gower. Do we miss those places? No! Gower is still there for us but now, happily, we are free to roam.
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