Another fine, dry day, but time to move on. We had considered visiting the Lake District, but the need to get to Edinburgh in Scotland for the following Thursday, and the likelihood of sites being booked up with it being the weekend meant that we pushed on into Scotland along the M6 and then the A74(M).

We picked Moffat as a likely place to stop and headed there. The better of the two sites there was fully booked so we settled for another nearby. The pitch area for campervans wasn’t particularly welcoming but we managed to get an electrical hookup sorted out. As we were settling down for a barbecue dinner, a large “safari bus” of young Germans pulled up and parked a few yards away. The travellers all piled out picked their bags up from lockers under the bus. I guessed that they’d all have tents and would walk further onto the site to pitch them but no, the bus driver went up a ladder on to the top of the bus and after a bit of jiggery-pokery, a tent-like canvas construction pulled up on the top of the bus and everyone climbed up there to sleep. Useful for keeping the wildlife at bay when on a real safari, but it’s unlikely that they’d be attacked by wild haggis in Scotland!