The last section of the towpath seemed to be the hardest (as it always does!). It was more built up along the canal side than previous sections and was littered with barges. We also walked over the little aquaduct that runs over the now disused railway line.

On arrival in Tiverton, we had a picnic lunch before catching the bus back to Sampford Peverell. We then spent the rest of the day and evening on the site just chilling out.

We cannot believe how lucky we were with the weather for our first trip. We had a great weekend and we are now counting down the days til Easter, our next trip. We're off to Charmouth so watch out for blog updates!

The wildlife was out and about too, enjoying the sunshine. We saw many species of ducks, coots, moorhens, swans (who were all busy building their nests), baby lambs and we even saw some early frogspawn!!! While taking some photos from Crownhill bridge a swan took flight and I was lucky enough to get a couple of shots!!!

The next section was absolutely beautiful between Halberton and the Tiverton Road Bridge. The path winds its way around the landscape and is known as the 'Swans Neck'. We stopped here for rest (a drink for Paddy and plasters for Mikes' blisters!!!), and sat overlooking the Swing bridge for a while in what was now very warm Spring sunshine.

The next lot of photos were all taken on the next 'stretch' between Sampford Peverell and Halberton.

We awoke on Saturday morning to a ground frost but glorious blue skies, a perfect Spring morning. After a hearty breakfast we headed off for our 9 mile walk along the Great Western Canal to Tiverton. I thought that Michael may struggle with the walk after his knee op but in fact it was me who struggled (and complained!) first!!!! The views along the canal were spectacular. The first lot of photos are from the section from Minnows campsite to Sampford Peverell, and its lovely church.

We were up and about early on Friday morning as we had to drop the camper off at our dealers for her yearly service and habitation check. We spent most of that day in the local area, visiting the garden centre, the motorhome sales centre (no we didn't buy a new one!) and having lunch sat outside a local pub in the glorious, warm Spring sunshine.

We eventually picked her up at 3:30pm and headed for our booked campsite, Minnows (CC) just outside Tiverton. What a fantastic little site. After a very warm welcome we chose our pitch, set up and headed for the little village of Sampford Peverell - a 15 minute stroll along the Great Western Canal towpath. We had a snacky tea in one of the village pubs (The Globe Inn - very doggie friendly!) and then headed back to the camper for the evening.

Here are some photos of Brean Sands, taken while we had our fish and chips on the beach!!!

It's great to be back and camping again. After a dreadful start to the year with Michael's accident at work resulting in him having a knee op (torn knee cartilage) he's back on his feet again and we are happy campers!!!

We thought that we may have to cancel our first booked trip of the year but someone was on our side and Michael was driving again just 10 days before our trip. Thankfully my driving services were not called upon in the camper!!!! :o)

The weather leading up to our weekend away was fantastic (for March!) so I decided to take some extra time off work and we headed up to the North Somerset coast on Thursday lunchtime. We hadn't booked a site but had phoned around to see who was open. We ended up at Brean Sands and stayed on Northam Farm campsite. A massive site (we certainly wouldn't stay there 'in season') with good camping facilities. That evening was spent wandering around Brean, having fish & chips on the beach (with hardly a soul in sight) and watching the sunset on site.