There is an amazing Caravan Club site practically in Cambridge, Cherry Hinton to be precise, which is hidden away in an old quarry and circled by a nature walk. It is an oasis of calm set on different levels and sandwiched between Addenbrookes hospital and Cherry Hinton park and it really is beautiful. This was to be my first outing with my caravan. I knew the route like the back of my hand (it's 3 minutes from work) and if it all went spectacularly badly, home was only 20 miles away!
I found a lovely spot surrounded on 3 sides by trees and bushes and attempted to reverse in. Eventually I decided that having the caravan sitting diagonally across the pitch with the door facing back was a really good idea - lots of privacy. And I'm sure it was sitting much more level in this position ...
So out came the various tools (well, spirit level), locks and keys (*hitch and wheel), cranking thing for corner steadies with plastic coasters underneath to stop them sinking, 25m long electric cable (well you never know when the nearest electric post might be in the next town), water pump (which behaved very irrationally the whole trip), water and waste containers (unfortunately I'd only got one hose for filling the fresh water and disposing of the 'grey' water so things got messy but I'm not suffering from anything tropical yet, wheel chocks, levellers (sadly not the band), and two pretty looking and pleasant smelling liquids for the toilet.
Three hours later I was settled (read broken) and put the kettle on for a cup of tea. This is when I realised I hadn't replaced the broken mug. This resulted in a rather expensive shopping trip which included some yummy Belgian beer, olives, cheese, dips, vegetable crisps, and a cheap (but light) wok, and of course, two mugs (the second for emergency back-up not uninvited guests or the dog).
If you ever want to work up a sweat and lose weight go caravanning, especially when it's 25 degrees.
*Andrew Ditton - I still haven't forgiven you for making the Milenco hitch lock look so easy to fit in your You Tube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0AI8rKIMZE - I need a hammer to fit mine.
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