Now we've bought a second hand tourer we're set for a different sort of holiday.
For the past few weeks we've been buying bits and bobs to kit out our new home on wheels; from essential items like a gas bottle, water roller and kitchen items, to touches that make it our home from home, a TV, card games, jigsaws and puzzles and rugs and, of course, beds for our two lodgers, Max and Paddy.
Our first trip is booked and we're off to Hoddam Castle site in Dumfriesshire on 6th April to get to know our caravan and hopefully do some research on my Bell ancestors who moved, as a family, from Dalbeattie in Kirkcudbright to South Shields, sometime between 1881 and '84. Let's hope the weather is kind!
