The Bassett family site
Friday 29 May—Friday 5 June It’s Friday and it is raining as we wake and start packing up in preparation to leave. We left Armidale at 1000 hrs and travelled along the New England Highway to Stanthorpe, QLD which is at 840m elevation. It showered lightly, the wipers worked well, we drove in the clouds …
Images of 2026
Friday 22—Friday 29 May We woke on Friday in Muswellbrook to a grey day and the sound of birds chatting all around. It was time to pack up an get ready to leave for Armidale Showground. The last thing to before hitching up is the slide rooms. As normal the small slide worked like magic …
Wednesday 20—Friday 22 May It’s time to pack up and leave Granville for our next adventure. We travelled north to Muswellbrook Showground. We were are here for 2 nights and 1 day, just like back in September 2024. The showground seems a popular stopping place for vans with around 50 or more (some could be …
Thursday 30 April—Wednesday 20 May On Thursday 30 April we packed up and headed down the M1 to the driveway in Granville where we will be for a few weeks. We have enjoyed the last of the autumn sunny days and it is slowly cooling down in preparation for winter. It has been quite busy …
Thursday 26 March—Thursday 30 April On Thursday 26 March we packed up to leave Granville for our next visit to Tea Gardens. The trip north went well and there was lots of traffic the whole way, even considering the fuel shortage/overpricing issues occurring at the moment. It was a beautiful sunny day and the area …
Thursday 12 February—Thursday 26 March Here we are back in Granville with what looks like a very full time of being with our Granville grandies and weekly visits to Silverdale to catch up with Vera. It has been very hot and also wet throughout the visit. With Nyssa and Brad both being on afternoon/evening shifts …
It is not often that we travel on a Sunday but after Church on 18 January we left Granville heading to Travelhome in Cardiff. The traffic going north was quite good and we travelled well and were able to park in their front car park and set up off grid for the night. We were …
…in the CARDIS Alphabetic listing of places If you’d just like some brief commentary on the actual grounds we’ve stayed at in these locations, see our post Sites we’ve stayed at Places we’ve visited in date order [sorry, this doesn’t go right back to the start of our travels just yet—we *may* get to adding …
We started 2026 where we finished up 2025, in Brad and Nyssa’s driveway. Our New Year’s eve celebrations were quiet and restrained with a bottle of non-alcoholic wine (Timbertown), although the neighbourhood was noisy with at least three, probably more, distinct groups of fireworks within earshot; all were below tree-level from our viewpoint so there …