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Moffat - 27th May - Sing!

Sunday of the Bank Holiday Set out at 12.30, and took three hours to get to Biggar, because that's what happens when you take the A-roads; and then get confused around Lanark and end up on the B-roads; and then end up following cycle route signs.  Back in Biggar for the first time in years.  The road over the hills and the drop down into Moffat Campsite; birds; dogs; kids; blue sky; clouds Soul; reading Pub singers

Thorntonloch - 20th May - Click!

Sunday 20th May We did not wake with the dawn after our first night in the camper as it was exceedingly comfortable. We spent the evening finding out all its funny little features. There is a window, in the bathroom - which must be lovely when you have a lot of solitude. Possibly its intended as a small 'on-my-own' sitting area?  Sunday morning brunch - hot kippers, bread and butter and coffee - in Alnmouth, the other side of Alnwick. Trundling down the A-roads at a mere 40 mph means you get to see everything. There's time to wave at the lambs in the fields. The bus has a short front so the cab sits high up and up-front with a terrific view. All of this part of the world is green.   Driving the bus at the moment can be amusing as the left wing mirror is at a too jaunty angle to be of much use and the reversing camera doesn't work; and the rear view mirror is worse than useless. We were - careful! The windows wind down manually so SP leaned out occasionally to fix ...

Northampton - 19 May - Sold!

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Friday 18th May. AP on a train from Glasgow, in sunny Scotland to Milton Keynes, in the soft English south.  AP spent Friday night in Milton Keynes, which was, so he says 'very shiny'. The office blocks and restaurants of the central business district, near his comfortable Jurys Inn hotel filled him with envy for how the soft southerners live. Sat 19th May On Saturday morning AP headed over to Northampton, to be introduced to the Delica. She is a five metre long, 4-wheel drive, Mitsubishi babe from 1994, with retro-styling to match. Technically, she is a Vantech JB500 body on a Mitsubishi Delica, almost identical to this one  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BeRgHyRExY An extensive test drive and an examination of the engine, and fixtures and fittings, made him certain that this was the bus for us!  A short tour round by the previous owner to show where everything is kept (not including the battery, which we found much later) recorded by video on his smart phone,...