A weekend down south in May
07:30 on Friday, May 14th saw us making our way to junction 24 of the M1, which is only 5 minutes run from where we live, a couple of minutes later and we were heading south towards Portsmouth. After an easy run with little traffic we were pulling on to our pitch at Rookesbury Caravan Park, near Wickham in Hampshire, at 11:15.
The Entrance to Rookesbury Park
Our pitch
Some of the Hard Standing Pitches
A few of the Grass pitches
Rookesbury Park must be one of the prettiest and well kept Caravan Club sites going, it is set in 18 acres of beautiful parkland and completely surrounded by woodland. It boasts 153 pitches of which 67 are hard standing, and also has 12 short stay pitches for anyone coming or going on a ferry. By 12:00 we were all set-up and phoned some friends of ours who live in Gosport, to meet us in the lay-by on the top of Ports Down Hill, where we usually go for an easy lunch when in the area. Mick’s Mighty Bacon Baps have been very popular with the local community for several years now and they certainly take a bit of beating.
The wife and our friends
The lay-by overlooks the Portsmouth peninsular, and on a fine day one can see for miles, but that wasn’t to be so, it was as misty as anything looking down on the peninsular as the photos show. Please over look the incorrect dates on some of the photographs, as we were trying out a new digital camera, and we had not had a go at setting the date and time in it.
Portsmouth through the mist
Another view of Portsmouth through the mist
Saturday morning saw us walking around the market in Gosport and later on we went down towards the Gosport ferry, where we saw both the LD Line’s, Norman Arrow coming in from Le Harve and Condor Ferry’s, fast cat leaving Portsmouth for France.
Condor Ferry’s fast cat coming in with, the Spinnaker and Lipstick Towers in the background.
LD Line’s Norman Arrow, leaving for France, with HMS Warrior in front of the ferry in the background, and the masts of Nelson’s HMS Victory just showing over the stern of the ferry.
Saturday evening we went for a very nice Chinese meal in Gosport Precinct with our friends and finished the evening chatting at their house, where sadly to say, we also had to say our goodbyes, because we were due to leave the following morning as the boss was at work again on Monday morning.
