Tuesday 17th to Thursday 19th January 2023
We have just returned from two nights on the above site just outside Taunton. It is a site of high standard with well laid out pitches and excellent facilities, the wardens were very friendly and helpful.
The purpose of our visit was to have an Alarm and Immobiliser fitted by a company called Van Bitz which are based on and own the camp site. Their security fittings are highly rated and constantly get good reviews, they are not cheap but they appear to fit top range equipment.
We arrived Tuesday afternoon as they needed the van in their workshop for a full day. After driving 50m to their workshop on Wednesday morning and handing over the keys we used their excellent directions to walk the two miles into Taunton, the route is mainly on footpath/ cycle track with a few short stretches of urban avenues and leads you into Vivary Park and emerging from there into the pedestrianised shopping street.
Sadly en route it began to rain heavily, then sleet and snow showers joined in and the temperature dropped rapidly so by the time we arrived we were soaked. Thankfully within metres of exiting the park we found a warm comfortable Portuguese cafe where we spent some time with an excellent coffee. We then spent a few hours wandering in and out of as many warm shops we could find ( not spending any money) until at lunchtime we had a good meal in the the dog friendly pub Ring of Bells. Thankfully the walk back was dry and uneventful.
The controls for the immobiliser work from your iphone and once we had set up the app we were given instructions on its use, however by the time they had finished all the other work it was very dark and cold so we agreed to return this morning for a demonstration on setting the alarm and to pay the bill.
This has been our first trip away in Homer 2 and it was a learning curve for us on how to operate all the different systems, but thankfully we had a comfortable trip away and it an easy drive.
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