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We took the motor home out for the weekend for the first time, we drove about 190 miles to stay at a site close to my parents, well it was fathers day the weekend before and my mums birthday on the Monday before we went down so thought it would be a good time to visit them.

The drive was fine apart from the rain, which strangely enough no one either at home nor at our destination had, it was as if the rain cloud just hoverred above us all the way until about 15 miles from the site when it stopped.

Due to the traffic and weather we did not get there until about 20:30 so didn’t do too much. Do the normal, connect electric etc and then sort out TV arial. That was a joke, we managed to get 2 terestrial TV channels and no digital channels. By 22:00 we gave up:)

Woken by the kids in the morning I asked for a timecheck, 7:30 I was told so I got up and washed to be told, ’sorry dad I misread my watch, it’s now 6:50′.

Everyone was now getting up, this was not popular as Tracey does like her lay in at the weekends. Once we were all up, had a few cups of coffee and breakfast I thought I would get the ‘camping satellite kit‘ out and give that ago.  With Tracey sat on top of the Motor home with the satellite dish I was tuning  and making suggestions on how to angle the dish. Within about 15 minutes we had a good choice of channels although BBC 2 wasn’t being received but that was not a concern for us.  As long as Tracey could get her fix of Casualty then we’re happy.

The rest of the weekend was a ‘normal’ caravanning weekend, wanderred down to the local resevoir in the morning, met up with my family later etc and then on Sunday packed up and came home.

Before we left I had heard about a way to get mobile internet for your laptop for a year for less than £30 which I tried over the weekend.  I will post about it over the next day or so.