Clithero Camping

Moody

The weather has been pretty poor for the last couple of weeks, and we were preparing for a wet weekend as we set off on Friday afternoon. The weather forecast had said that Saturday would be the best day, but it still might rain. 


First job when we arrived at the Caravan and Camping Club Camp Site by the river Ribble at Clithero was puncture repairs. Both kids had flat tyres on their bikes. I soon repaired everything, looks like they had both run over hawthorn branches and the thorns had stuck in the tyres!


After tea me and the lads went for a quick walk with Toddie down by the river. There are some railings on a ramp used as disabled access to the river. Jack and Finlay put these to great use practising Free Running! I kept asking them to be careful, and they kept themselves entertained for an hour!

Great Mitton

River Ribble

View from Castle

Saturday was overcast but dry. We set off on a walk along the River Ribble, heading south to Little Mitton. The kids did a couple of Geocaches along the way. The path turned out onto a road that we followed away from the river. We made out way back through woodland and arrived back at the campsite for some lunch.

The Keep!

In the afternoon we walked into Clithero, it was a busy afternoon and the Market was in full swing. There was a display of Owls, Jack and Finlay enjoyed looking at these. The imposing Castle/Keep drew our attention and we headed up the hill to explore the ruin. Finlay has a phobia of castles! And was uncertain about looking around, heaven knows why he's got such a daft hang up. We coaxed him to look more closely and he soon settled down and thought it was ace! 


Finlay needed a new scooter so we found one in the shops and headed back to the van for tea.

Free Runners!!!

Spent the evening in the Park adjacent to the camp site.

Sunday morning brought bad weather, it was chucking it down. I only got out of the van to disconnect the electric, and we headed home. 

It had been a good weekend, Clithero is a place we've passed through many times, so it's nice to have spent a little more time looking around.