Barnard Castle
This is night No 75/2018 living in my caravan. Now at Teesdale Barnard Castle C&MC Site near Barnard Castle in County Durham. Got up at a ridiculously late 0645! The weather was fine and dry and a huge relief from yesterdays wet weather. Nunnykirk is a great site, but too restrictive for dog walking in the surrounding area. It's just daft that dogs MUST be kept on leads, the track along the side of the site has no houses, no livestock, no pedestrians and is only used by people with dogs. Instead, I headed out first thing to the FC forest at Simonside which gave the dogs a brilliant run around, and to add to the pleasure, there were lots of pheasants around which totally knackered them out. Lots of self grooming going on after they'd wolfed their breakfasts. Packed up, emptied the tanks, and left Nunnykirk just after 1000. The journey to Barnard Castle took around 2hrs. Crossed the Pennines at Weardale into Teesdale passing through Stanhope. The Stanhope s...