• Lifestyle,  Outdoors,  Van Life

    5 Reasons to Stay at: Waterside House Campsite

    This was a spontaneous ‘I need to leave the house and any reminders of my work life’ trip and boy, did it deliver! Someone was watching over us as we rolled into the site on a windy Friday evening. I was smiling from ear to ear as Ste removed the keys from the ignition to a brilliant lakeside pitch at Waterside House campsite, based just off the M6 in Howtown near Pooley Bridge. We chose a non EHU as a…

  • Outdoors,  Van Life

    5 Reasons to Stay at: Meadow Falls Campsite, Ingleton

    Our first campervan trip in Bailey, our Mazda Bongo, didn’t disappoint. However, three days prior to the trip, the van overheated, had a hissy fit and refused to crawl 500 yards back to the house (we were so close to home!). We cancelled the trip, after we waved Bailey off with the AA recovery man, and found solace in that we hadn’t broken down hundreds of miles from home. Then a tiny miracle happened, courtesy of our awesome mechanics at…