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Wales is great when its dry and you stay in an upside down boat.....

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    After our interesting but slightly frustrating trip into Suffolk and Norfolk camping, myself and Jeff started a few on line discussions almost straight away to do another long weekend away. Both of us are trained in health and safety, and in epidemiology to some extent, and we agreed that there would be a second spike to the COVID epidemic, followed by a lock down, and if we wanted to get away it had to be sooner rather than later. Also a decision was made pretty early on to not stay in the big bell tent, or in our own tents, but in something else. But what? Hotels might be not available as it was holiday time when we planned to go, hostels were looked into and you had to book the whole hostel, and B and B might be a bit too pricey for us, much as a cooked breakfast is appreciated. My idea was to stay in camping pods, something I had first seen advertised in the Highlands about 15 years ago, but they had now become a popular thing. We started to search around and managed to book a