Friday 28th June 2024

We set off on a warm but windy Friday afternoon for Tantallon Park. just outside North Berwick.

We were here in June 2023 and it was warm and windy then, the wind was dialled up a few notches when we arrived, it said “20mph, gusting to 38mph” and it definitely felt like it.

We were on Pitch 80 this time, and we reversed into the pitch, we had to reverse onto the levelling blocks for the first time, beautiful view of the Firth of Forth out our rear windows.

There was a pretty impressive old bus conversion across from us, an old “Jervaulx Royale”.

We hadn’t taken any food this time, as last year there was a van and we were hopeful that we might get something onsite, but no such luck this year, we were tired, so a quick walk down to the local Tesco (less than 10 minutes walk down the road) and we picked up a light dinner and ate in the van.

I remember last year that we had trouble with the Cadac in the wind, so we cooked inside (I did bring a gas-burner and Trangia, but more of that in Saturday’s post).

Other than that, we were enthralled with the view, with the crepuscular rays shining on the water, at one point picking out an oil rig sitting in the Firth.

The van was being moved a little in the wind, but nowhere near as bad as the two storms in January.

We watched some TV, until we made up the bed and passed out.