Building a Base

I am not a fan of road trips at all,so by definition there cannot be a perfect road trip. The driving on our increasingly crowded roads gets worse and more aggressive by the year and the whole process is something to be endured not enjoyed. We are in a very nice holiday park just outside Chichester at the moment and that is our base for day trips. This to me is a much more enjoyable approach to a holiday than a road trip.

We have been into Chichester twice, and yesterday we went to Fishbourne Roman Palace, Bosham which has a church that is featured in the Bayeux Tapestry and West Wittering where we spent an hour or so in the very brisk winds of a British late spring. After that it was back to our static caravan at the holiday park where I made dinner. That’s the perfect holiday day for me, sightseeing and then returning to a place where you can sit back and relax in, rather than going to a new place and unpacking the clothes you packed up that morning. By staying in one place we have been able to buy food for the week, thereby significantly reducing our costs. It is a far more relaxed holiday lifestyle and gives us the opportunity and freedom to explore an area.

If road trips are your thing, good luck to you but I am staying put because they are simply the triumph of hope over experience!