Chertsey 28 Nov - 1 Dec

This visit was to use the site and the bus as a base to enable us to move Mother to her new house in Chiswick. This has to be the closest site geographically, but access-wise, then perhaps the caravan club sites at Abbey Wood or Crystal Palace may be easier as Chertsey is a long, wet walk from the station, especially in weather such as 2012 in the UK.

Probably best that Dogs are not allowed!

Flying solo I arrived on the Tuesday afternoon after a fairly uneventful journey down, recce'ing the Basingstoke canal site at Sandhurst en-route (has potential). Luckily we were allocated a hardstanding as the river was exceptionally high and probably less than 6 inches from flooding the site.  I settled in, lunched, lazed about and then walked to the station to meet Debs, who came home quite late following a function at work. On Wednesday, we set off early for the freezing cold walk to the station, Debs to go to work and me to go to help Mum pack. The journey was a bit of an adventure, but that's London Transport for you. On Wednesday evening we met again at Chertsey station and had dinner in Pizza Express after watching them film a biopic of Paul Potts, starring James Corden, in the high street. One to miss, methinks.


Brrr - Ice baby!
 


Thursday was the big move day and we hired a van, which made travel to and from Chertsey much easier. Friday it was back to Chiswick, Saturday to Twickenham to watch Quins beat Worcester and then on Sunday the journey home after a lazy morning reading the papers.

The Thames was a bit high
 

Chertsey Bridge Sunset
 

We are probably getting a bit fed up with Chertsey now. It's not in the best area, its a long walk to public transport and the station is not the best served line in the world, particularly if you cant get a ticket because the machine is knackered and the sole member of staff is snow clearing. Perhaps we'll give this place a bit of break before returning.

Moving house is hard graft!