We managed only our 2nd outing this year, due to obvious Covid restrictions, working throughout and the wife self isolating either side of a throat operation last month.
Found a cracking site about 5 miles inland from Rhos-on-sea called Plas Farm. Superb pitches, Covid compliant, all facilities open and open all year round too. emoji106]
We arrived on Sunday afternoon and while the above pic radiates tranquillity, it was actually blowing a gale. So much so that we were unable to put up the awning or the roof. We backed Winnie into the corner, put up the wind break and hunkered down with beer wine and bar snacks ... by teatime we were in no fit state to light a fire so we continued with a diet of beer wine and bar snacks.
Everything was so much calmer the next day, well apart from my head, so I managed to get the set up complete under Frankie’s expert supervision.
Then is was off to the beach at Rhos-on-Sea for a day out, much to Frankie’s approval.
We got back set up the Cobb and had tea to this beautiful view before shutting shop up for the night ... fantastic day [emoji106]
Tuesday was just as nice so we ventured back down to the beach to build on my T-shirt tan some more.
Then back for another amazing tea time view.
Stretched Winnie’s legs a little further on Wednesday due to low cloud around Colwyn and ended up at Aberffraw on Anglesey. Weather was glorious as was the ice cream, Winnie enjoyed the 90 mile round trip followed by Fish & Chips on the promenade at Colwyn Bay.
Van’s driving great, the single vac advance has made a massive difference on the hills, plus I’ve just changed the shifter to the newest Vintage Speed model with the Porsche style bushing.
I wanted something that was going make changes easier than the Empi I had been running with it’s very narrow H ... First impressions are really good, it’s a wider H and a longer throw but the offset means that 1st doesn’t clash with the handbrake and 4th sits close to your left leg, which is great when the wife is driving as she was previously hovering around trying to find the stick.
3rd to 2nd is a breeze and like the guy says in the video, there’s no vibration [emoji1787]. It’s really well built, trigger reverse is great, I actually think they’ve got it right this time. I guess only time will tell.
Frankie hasn’t been concerned with
any of my gear changes this week [emoji1787] and we’ve still got 2 nights left [emoji322][emoji481]
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