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We travelled up to the Lake District for a few days, during the first week of the Easter holidays, and stayed at the Coniston Park Coppice Caravan Club site. As the name suggests, it’s very close to Lake Coniston, so it was very picturesque.

When we arrived at the site, we requested a pitch near to the disabled shower room, for John and George. We got a pitch that was really close, however we didn’t feel that it was wheelchair disabled friendly. To get to the ramp up to the toilet block, you had to use a very stony road and when you reached the ramp, the ramp was a good 3cm or so above the stony road. Luckily for us, we were close enough so that George could walk there and not use his chair.

In common with the other Caravan Club site we have visited, we also found that it was not visually impaired friendly. John has made the suggestion that Caravan Club sites provide signs in Braille in the disabled bathrooms, so we shall see what happens with that.

We have a friend who lives up there, so we met up with him for dinner one night. We went to a lovely little pub in Coniston village, which allowed dogs in the dining room so Jasper came too, although he had to lie under the table. On our way back through the site, returning to the Opus, a deer ran across the road in front of us, we heard owls hooting through the night and squirrels were running around the next day, so there was plenty of wildlife!

Jasper saw sheep for the first time as well. I don’t think he quite knew what to make of them, as he tried to hide behind my legs! Obviously, he was on his lead as well, as having dogs running wild around sheep isn’t a good idea. When we reached the lake, Jasper went for a paddle in it. The water was lovely and clear, with swans on it and also a few boats.

We filmed some fabulous footage of the site where we were staying and also of the lake... well we thought we did. When we came to look at the video we’d thought we’d filmed, it turned out that we hadn’t filmed anything - whoops!

It’s a beautiful area to visit and we would definitely visit again.