Monica’s maiden voyage

We took recently took delivery of Monica our brand new motorhome and our first trip was to the nearby New Forest for 3 nights where we were testing all the equipment. Mostly it went smoothly apart from us loosing all our water due to the drainage tap being left open by the dealer and us not realising.

Luckily the water supply was close by to us so we only had to move forward a few feet to fill the tank up again. Although we could have collected rainwater in buckets as the weather was appalling and never stopped raining on day one!

Day 2 and after a fitful nights sleep due to feeling chilly and someone snoring loudly we woke up to a lovely sunny day.

We stayed at Long Meadow campsite it is very quite and surrounded by wildlife, apart from toilet, shower blocks water and electric hook ups there are no other facilities. We took a lovely walk into Brockenhurst across the heath.

We had visitors in the evening, friends who live nearby picked us up and we went to the Huntsman for dinner.

Day 3 we walked from the campsite to a village called Bank and had a lovely lunch at The Oak Inn.

Then it was time to go home Mrs C took the steering wheel and drove exceptionally well all the way.

Next trip is to Wells in Somerset in 2 weeks time.






















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