A Long Weekend in Chedder

[DBK]

We will soon be crossing over to France but this weekend we're staying at the Cheddar Bridge Touring Park, which is close to Bristol on the map but is actually quite a rural location at the end of the Cheddar Gorge.

It's the AGM Rally for the Murvi Owners Club and there are about 36 vans here, including several new members. These are lively meets and there is usually quite a lot going on if your legs, bladder and stomach can keep up the pace. I'm good on the second two but one of my knees is playing up at the moment but hopefully it will recover with rest and liquid refreshment.

The weather is excellent for March.

Although it wasn't when we arrived yesterday. This is a misty Cheddar reservoir which we will visit again tomorrow, hopefully under bluer skies.

We did some gentle walking today, visiting the village which is a short walk from the site along a disused railway.

The church has a few war graves, we found 5 but might have missed others.

This group of 3 is interesting. An RAF navigator in the middle and on the right a soldier from the Catering Corps. Both died during WW2 but the gunner on the left died in 1947 which I think means he died of injuries sustained during the War. One of the other war graves we found dated to a few years after WW1.

In the village we found this interesting opportunity. Not the first to be sold off I think and a sign of councils saving money.

This is the first trip after I did this modification.

Spot the oddity?

I've turned it upside down so the mesh is at the bottom and the blind part at the top. The idea is it gives better shade from the Sun, especially when it is low down.

It seems to work but joining the two sections is harder with them this way up. I'll let you know how it gets on when we get to a hot bit of France. I've only done this to one window but it's the one opposite the main bench seat, where it is needed.

 

[gus-lopez]

they were all that way round in my last coachbuilt.Screen at the top & fly screen at the bottom?

 

[DBK]

they were all that way round in my last coachbuilt.Screen at the top & fly screen at the bottom?

It's the logical way I think.

 

[Barriesimpson]

they were all that way round in my last coachbuilt.Screen at the top & fly screen at the bottom?

I'm gonna have to check mine now, but I'm pretty sure they are the same.

 

[L' Hobo]

We will soon be crossing over to France but this weekend we're staying at the Cheddar Bridge Touring Park, which is close to Bristol on the map but is actually quite a rural location at the end of the Cheddar Gorge.

It's the AGM Rally for the Murvi Owners Club and there are about 36 vans here, including several new members. These are lively meets and there is usually quite a lot going on if your legs, bladder and stomach can keep up the pace. I'm good on the second two but one of my knees is playing up at the moment but hopefully it will recover with rest and liquid refreshment.

The weather is excellent for March.

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Although it wasn't when we arrived yesterday. This is a misty Cheddar reservoir which we will visit again tomorrow, hopefully under bluer skies.

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We did some gentle walking today, visiting the village which is a short walk from the site along a disused railway.

The church has a few war graves, we found 5 but might have missed others.

This group of 3 is interesting. An RAF navigator in the middle and on the right a soldier from the Catering Corps. Both died during WW2 but the gunner on the left died in 1947 which I think means he died of injuries sustained during the War. One of the other war graves we found dated to a few years after WW1.

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In the village we found this interesting opportunity. Not the first to be sold off I think and a sign of councils saving money.

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This is the first trip after I did this modification.

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Spot the oddity?

I've turned it upside down so the mesh is at the bottom and the blind part at the top. The idea is it gives better shade from the Sun, especially when it is low down.

It seems to work but joining the two sections is harder with them this way up. I'll let you know how it gets on when we get to a hot bit of France. I've only done this to one window but it's the one opposite the main bench seat, where it is needed.

Personally, I much prefer the blinds on my Murvi as they are, it's good that we are all different.

I hope you and everyone enjoy your visit, I was with the club when it visited a few years ago, possibly 2018? I think it was to that same site.

I stopped belonging to the club at the Stratford-upon-Avon rally, when the new leader, after sadly the previous one died, wanted us all to send photos and home addresses and join a WhatsApp group.

As the joining fee for the club was only £5 per year, I thought that was giving FAR too much information ( including the dates when we would be awayfrom our home) to any unscrupulous tealeaf who might have use for all of that information for a fiver joining fee?

It was a pity because there was some nice people belonging to the club.

As I say, have a great time!

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[Dorwyn]

Cheddar is just down the road from me, 8 miles or so. That site is good, an excellent location. The reservoir is a good 2.25 miles around the perimeter and is one of the walks our walking group often do. Cheddar is an interesting town, so of course is Cheddar gorge. Wells, my town (City) is also interesting. Just down the road, between the two towns, Cheddar and Wells, is the small town of Draycott, above which is an absolutely wonderful walk. You turn off the New Lane, going east, up a very steep and narrow road, not really suitable for the larger Motorhomes. It's so steep, that even in a normal car you have to drop to 1st gear. At the top, the road widens slightly so that you can park. This is Drayton Sleights. Walk up the path, as high as you can go, and there is the most wonderful view. You can see the sea to the west, Wales and the Severn Bridges. You are just above Cheddar Gorge. Highly recommended.

 

[DBK]

Personally, I much prefer the blinds on my Murvi as they are, it's good that we are all different.

I hope you and everyone enjoy your visit, I was with the club when it visited a few years ago, possibly 2018? I think it was to that same site.

I stopped belonging to the club at the Stratford-upon-Avon rally, when the new leader, after sadly the previous one died, wanted us all to send photos and home addresses and join a WhatsApp group.

As the joining fee for the club was only £5 per year, I thought that was giving FAR too much information ( including the dates when we would be awayfrom our home) to any unscrupulous tealeaf who might have use for all of that information for a fiver joining fee?

It was a pity because there was some nice people belonging to the club.

As I say, have a great time!

None of that was ever obligatory, I can only assume the request wasn't well worded. We have members we don't email and have to use the post to communicate with and we don't have photos of them either. As to knowing when people would be away from home I can't begin to understand why that was required so have to assume another misunderstanding. I've certainly never been asked for that in over 12 years of membership.

 

[Dorwyn]

Wells Market is tomorrow, Saturday, well worth a visit. There is a bus, the 126.

 

[L' Hobo]

None of that was ever obligatory, I can only assume the request wasn't well worded. We have members we don't email and have to use the post to communicate with and we don't have photos of them either. As to knowing when people would be away from home I can't begin to understand why that was required so have to assume another misunderstanding. I've certainly never been asked for that in over 12 years of membership.

They would know you were away as the request for the details were connected to the Rally dates, plus, as I was the only person who didn't send in a photograph, the leader said, "however will people know who you are without a picture" I replied, " as you have my registration number, I'll be the ONLY one without a picture on the distributed sheet of portraits.

Also, as on that rally, ALL happening for the following day were sent out by WhatsApp, I, and another who didn't do WhatsApp, were never included and were never told.

I obviously didn't fit in, so by mutual agreement, the club and I, parted company.

PS. I hope you were not that leader?

PPS. You say none of it was obligatory, it certainly felt as if it was but it's now in the past so let's leave it there!

 

[DBK]

... so let's leave it there!

Probably best.

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[Chris]

There is a good Indian restaurant in Cheddar.

They don’t serve alcohol but you can BYO and there is a shop across the road from it that sells large bottles of Cobra

 

[pjay]

Nice one, what do you call a gathering of Murvi's, a Murviration?

Pete

 

[L' Hobo]

We will soon be crossing over to France but this weekend we're staying at the Cheddar Bridge Touring Park, which is close to Bristol on the map but is actually quite a rural location at the end of the Cheddar Gorge.

It's the AGM Rally for the Murvi Owners Club and there are about 36 vans here, including several new members. These are lively meets and there is usually quite a lot going on if your legs, bladder and stomach can keep up the pace. I'm good on the second two but one of my knees is playing up at the moment but hopefully it will recover with rest and liquid refreshment.

The weather is excellent for March.

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Although it wasn't when we arrived yesterday. This is a misty Cheddar reservoir which we will visit again tomorrow, hopefully under bluer skies.

View attachment 1035931

We did some gentle walking today, visiting the village which is a short walk from the site along a disused railway.

The church has a few war graves, we found 5 but might have missed others.

This group of 3 is interesting. An RAF navigator in the middle and on the right a soldier from the Catering Corps. Both died during WW2 but the gunner on the left died in 1947 which I think means he died of injuries sustained during the War. One of the other war graves we found dated to a few years after WW1.

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In the village we found this interesting opportunity. Not the first to be sold off I think and a sign of councils saving money.

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This is the first trip after I did this modification.

View attachment 1035929

Spot the oddity?

I've turned it upside down so the mesh is at the bottom and the blind part at the top. The idea is it gives better shade from the Sun, especially when it is low down.

It seems to work but joining the two sections is harder with them this way up. I'll let you know how it gets on when we get to a hot bit of France. I've only done this to one window but it's the one opposite the main bench seat, where it is needed.

As I was sitting in my Murvi, parked up on the Norfolk Broads this morning with the sun blazing down, I sat on the bed having breakfast and thought about what it would be like, as I cracked open the large sliding door window blind, (which is facing into the sun due to site parking rules ) to see the view.

If it was the other way with, like yours, with the blank half at the top.
I would have had to open the blind a lot further to see the view and allowed more sun in, OR squatted down a lot further towards the floor.

As I said earlier, I prefer the blinds as they are, not only for practically but security ( I never leave my blinds open, allowing chancers to see, at a glance, what's worth nicking, I much prefer them to have to guess and, hopefully, from the outside it looks scruffy (although extremely reliable) with the pealing paint etc., they decide there's probably nothing there worth spending time in prison for and move on.

I do, occasionally, leave a 2" blind crack at the top of the window, especially when it's stored on my driveway, but someone would have to be VERY tall to glance in.

Good luck with the experiment!

 

[CAB96]

If you go down the disused railway past the CAMC site you come to Cheddar Ales. A bit tricky to find on the industrial estate but they have a brewery tap.

Lovely beer!

 

[Dorwyn]

If you go down the disused railway past the CAMC site you come to Cheddar Ales. A bit tricky to find on the industrial estate but they have a brewery tap.

Lovely beer!

It's a nice walk too!

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[CAB96]

It's a nice walk too!

It feels a bit odd going past a boutique right next door to that engineering place!

Some interesting units in the campsite opposite as well!

 

[Dorwyn]

It feels a bit odd going past a boutique right next door to that engineering place!

Some interesting units in the campsite opposite as well!

If you walk along the Strawberry line towards Weston, you get to go through a tunnel, which the child in me does enjoy. It's always dripping water. If you go further on into Winscome, down off the bridge, and past the shops, there's a local village hub that does good coffee and cakes. It makes a nice walk.

 

[TR5]

Many years ago I done some work at the Cheddar Gorge cheese factory, on their steam boiler plant.