A scary meeting in the Forest of Dean The Brazilian Bay Halloween meeting had a new venue this year. Previously we’d got together at Anita’s site in Mollington near Banbury, but this year John and Sharon had found us a…
Birthday, Beer and Brazi-Buddies We’d been planning this trip for months, every since we’d invited our Brazilian Bay buddies to join us at Masons in Appletreewick, for the Craven Arms Beer Festival to celebrate my 60th Birthday in style.…
As I was going to St Ives… As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks,…
Bumbling round the Dales with the Bees We’d been promising to take our lovely neighbours, Carol and Andy, to our static in the Dales for some time but our jaunts away in Absinthe have left us with few weekends available.…
All Ale, Long Itchington – Aug 15 When we bought Absinthe one of our plans was to look at the weather forecast during the week, then head somewhere with a decent forecast for the weekend. Unfortunately, as I’m a…
10 Go Wild on L’Île de Ré It’s Kombi Kaper holiday time again and this year we’ve been to one of my favourite places in France, L’Île de Ré, off the coast near La Rochelle. Ten Brazilian Bay…
Twice Bitton It’s MOT and service time again, so we headed back to Knights Folly Farm campsite in Bitton to set up camp within driving distance of Danbury’s place in Yate. Absinthe was booked in for Friday, so…
Camperjam 2015 2015 was our 4th year of visiting Camperjam and we’ve learnt from experience that if you can avoid the M6 then you should! With this in mind, we exited at the M56 and headed down the…
Adventures North of the Border – June 2015 This year’s Northern Meet was being held over the mid-summer weekend at Witches Craig campsite, just outside Stirling, but before we could leave we had a disaster at home. We woke…
To Much Wenlock After the excitement of the Brazilian Bay Sleepover and with our Northern Chapter Meet to come shortly, we thought it would be good to fit in a chilling weekend – but where to go? We really…
Here we go again with our fourth Brazilian Bay Sleepover and you know what? I think that it might have been the best one yet! The weekend didn’t get off to a good start, though. Friday started with rain at…
As a favour to a lovely couple from Burnley, we’d agreed to use Absinthe as a wedding car to take Danielle, the Bride, and her two Dads to Burnley Register Office and then onwards with her, her daughter…
The season’s properly started at last and traditionally we go away for the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. Our other tradition is that we leave it late to book anywhere and end up back at Eardisland and a trip to…
At long last we’ve managed to get away properly in Absinthe in 2015. We’d been due to go to the Eskdale Dubfest but a severe bout of ‘flu for both of us left us pining in the spring sunshine and…
We always have Absinthe serviced in March, ahead of the start of the season, so off we set to travel down to Nailsworth – a small town (or large village, you decide). The plan was stop over in the Egypt…
