First Camping Trip of 2011

After a break over the winter Archie and I hit the road for our first jaunt of 2011. We took a spin around the M25 to the Caravan Club site at Denham, about 10 minutes from junction 17. The site is really a glorified car park with very big spaces and clean toilets. I expected a bit of aircraft noise, being not too far from Heathrow. I hadn't bargained for helicopters landing next door at Denham Airfield in the middle of the night!


Denham is in South Buckinghamshire, the birthplace of the Paralympics, but right next door to Hertfordshire, the County of Opportunity, to do what? There are plenty of posh houses about, Cilla Black lives in Denham Green, but surprise, surprise, I didn't meet her. Denham village was once the home of Sir John Mills who lived in this very nice house.

There was plenty of footpaths about and I purchased a local guide which I promptly lost without ever reading. I managed a couple of circular walks from the site to the Grand Union Canal on Friday and Sunday but Saturday was a washout. Once the rain stopped I strolled around the adjacent nature reserve. I drove off and left the stool behind, the sixth stool I either lost or driven over!