{"id":10257,"date":"2018-06-04T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=10257"},"modified":"2019-05-25T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T22:23:37","slug":"on-the-road-again-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=10257","title":{"rendered":"On the road again, England 2018 \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 4th June 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled<\/strong>: 129 kilometres from Church Farm, Bosham to Oxford.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: Mostly just driving the A34<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: The Old Red Lion, Marston (Britstop). Free. N51.77233, W01.23752<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another year passes as we start our motorhome adventures for 2018.  In reality it\u2019s only 7 months since we put the Hymer in storage and returned to Sydney, after touring Scandinavia.  Its been a long hot summer in Sydney and the warm weather has continued through autumn, with the winter chill only stricking in the last weeks of May.  We are leaving a month earlier this year than we normally do, hoping to get some fair weather in Scotland without co-inciding with the midge feeding season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have had some routine work done on the Hymer during the off-season, this would normally be a service and an MOT (road worthiness) inspection.  However the timing belt on the Hymer\u2019s Fiat 2.8 TDI was last changed in 2012, the recommended service replacement is 6 years.  When we originally purchased the Hymer we had a 3 year plan to explore europe, but that seems to have developed into a 10 year plan.  So \u00a3325 on preventative maintenance seemed prudent.  Only the start of the maintenance planned for this year I am afraid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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30 minutes in and we still cannot see the front of the queue !<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Singapore Airlines delivered us safely and on-time to Heathrow.  Whilst the first leg to Singapore was disturbed by a screaming child the second leg was very quiet and comfortable, so we both managed a good sleep (with some chemical assistance).  Not so good was the wait of 90 minutes to clear customs.  This didn\u2019t make Tony our driver\u2019s day either.  Another 90 minutes later Tony drops us at Church Farm for an emotional reunion with the Hymer.  Pam is busy unpacking whilst I wash 7 months of dust away.  The fridge is running, we leaves our empty bags with Church Farm and hit the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First stop, the nearby Tesco\u2019s supermarket to fill the cupboards and fridge for the trip north…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We stop once again at an old favourite, The Red Lion at Marston. Only a couple of miles from Oxford with a large grass carpark and free parking for motorhomes.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Its been a long day and a half and we have a drink before calling it an early night…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael and Pam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: 4th June 2018. Travelled: 129 kilometres from Church Farm, Bosham to Oxford. Visited: Mostly just driving the A34 Stayed: The Old Red Lion, Marston (Britstop). Free. N51.77233, W01.23752 Another year passes as we start our motorhome adventures for 2018.  In reality it\u2019s only 7 months since we put the Hymer in storage and returned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-10257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","category-united-kingdom","tag-english-villages","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10257"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23011,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions\/23011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}