my peaceful holiday.

We are going to Lady Margarets Park this weekend. We love this site only an hours drive away and nice and quiet.

Sounds lovely. We were hoping to stay there for New Year but it's already showing as full, so we are CLing it instead. Looking forward to Lady M's Park some other time.

Caravanners often pass through Channel ports like a “dose of salts” and thereby miss a lot.

  Electing for a booze cruise this month (sorry George), my wife and I decided to stay at the Club’s Black Horse Farm site at Densole, near Folkestone tendering our site-night vouchers collected from using the Club credit card for our four night stay, having booked a P&O Ferry day crossing from Dover to Calais on our last full day. This gave us two days to explore a little bit of the heel of Britain - Kent.

  We were warmly welcomed by the wardens, offered a number of pitches to choose from, and given a great deal of advice and help on what to do and where to go during our stay.

  The site couldn’t be more convenient for the Canterbury – Folkestone bus which stops a few yards from the site entrance. Some thirty minutes and we were in the middle of Canterbury having passed through delightful green and bucolic countryside viewed from the top deck, naturally.

  Canterbury was buzzing. A lively mix of locals, tourists and students thronged the busy streets, shops and cafes. Our first stop was the tourist office situated in the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge to get a street map with sites of interest clearly marked. Our first visit was to the magnificent cathedral with its stonework glowing in the autumn sun. If I had been told we would need two hours to view this magnificent building I would not have credited it. The country’s history is laid before one from the spot where Thomas à Becket was murdered to the memorial plaques recording battles past and those that lost there lives.

  Coming into the October sunshine from the dark crypt we had a myriad of cafes to choose from for lunch.

  The second day was to Whitstable the old fishing port on the county’s north coast. The sun shone but the wind blew to rock the fishing boats moored in the harbour. A fabulous fish shop and café is on the quay side was where we bought the freshest slipper soles for our supper. We explored the small streets with their ancient board houses nestling below the breakwater and enjoyed Whitstable oysters for lunch.

  On our last full day I was careful to travel no faster than the towing speeds to the ferry terminal which took a smidgen over half and hour. A windy crossing to Calais ensured we had plenty of time to shop in the Cité before getting back to the site just before the rain.

  Black Horse Farm is blessed with many hard standing pitches and as we left contractors, as reported in this month’s Caravan Magazine, were converting more grass pitches to hard standing, and we were reliably informed some will be bookable service pitches.

  So don’t just stop a hurried night at the site stay a while and enjoy the surrounding countryside. It’s much prettier and more interesting than the Pas de Calais.

  Any tips for the site? Yes please, could we have pitch numbers listed on a board at the entrance to all lanes so old caravanners don’t run out of site and have to turn round!