Shropshire Serendipity

We headed South and made our way to Shropshire which is a wonderful place with lots of rolling hills and superb villages and towns.

As we'd left Preston late we'd phoned ahead and made bookings at the Smallbatch Campsite in Little Stretton which was a wonderful village with a thatched roofed church, 1 shop and 2 pubs

That night we really only had time for a meal and then to bed, but even with that we had decided to come back again in the future. The ford to enter and exit the campsite wasn't much of a problem - I think I could have done it on a bike ever mind a Land Rover, but it looks nice  as you can see.

Before we headed home we knew we had to go into Church Stretton to the antiques market so we headed north into the town. As we went up we came to a junction looking for somewhere to park and to our right was a very familiar looking shape on the road.so I decided to turn down that road and give chase. .As it turned right into a side street my suspicions were confirmed, and it was indeed a 127 ambulance. The first we have seen on the road since we have had Katy.

 A moment later we pulled up alongside said vehicle and the initially puzzled look on the face of the driver turned to a beaming smile as he realised what we were driving.

It turned out to be Tony (longmynd127 from the 127 Ambulance Owners Forum) with his Locomotors Ambulance and we had about 1/2 an hour of wonderful chat and a good look around each other's vehicles before the practicalities of the day meant we both had to get on with it

One of the highlights of Tony's 127 has to be his wood burning stove hmmm. ideas are already forming

For those who have not met Tony I can say he's a really nice guy to talk to and knows a lot about Land Rovers (an awful lot more than me.), and he's done a really good paint job. 


From then it was a fairly straightforward run home. Katy had run all the way, no issues, but a few more jobs identified as we went. I think Tony said it in the best possible way "The nicest thing about these 127's is the people and sharing of ideas. I've never met one of these that was not still a work in progress"

It was a wonderful highlight to a really nice day - thanks Tony