New Addition to the Family and a holiday

I know I am yet again late with writing my blogs but this time I have a very good excuse. It was not so much a question of not having enough time to write the blog but rather that the time I had free was preoccupied with other things. One of them was a holiday to North Devon for a week.

I had booked a week off work and headed to Ilfracombe at the beginning of September. Here some of my favourite  shots of the week. I took many shots as I found the whole area of Ilfracombe very photogenic and interesting. I loved exploring a totally new area of the UK and came to realise that there just wasnt enough time to see it all in the week I had in North Devon. But I gave it a good try.

Another real distraction against writing a blog was the new addition to my family. Meet the Scoobymoblie….

The Scoobymoblie is a 1991 Talbot Express Avalon. Equipped with 4 birth sleeping areas, cooker, Oven, Heater and Shower I hope to use the SM to continue to explore the United Kingdom and photograph its beautiful landscapes and landmarks. I bought the SM at the beginning of September and aimed to take it for a test run as soon as possible after my holiday in Ilfracombe. My first destination was an area I already knew well and which I had visited many times before. It would make it easier to get used to the SM and how to handle the drive.

And what a different it was driving the SM. With no power steering the campervan was extremely heavy to steer and it took me a long while to get used to the sluggishness of the breaks. It drives very slow and feels very heavy which does not please the divers that are stuck behind me. But I was determined to conquer my fears of driving it.

My first stop was the Ogwen Valley in Snowdonia on the 29th of September. I normally ignore Llyn Ogwen and head into the mountains to photograph LLyn Idwal at the foot of the Glyders but this time I wanted to take the opportunity to photograph Llyn Ogwen, especially as I was parked right on the shores of the lake.

I only styed there for one night and a day and by the first of October I choose a different location to stay and photograph.

That however is for the October edition