ThursdayThat was another 2 days of walking done, so time for a rest day again. Sally was adamant she didn't want to spend 7 hours on a motorway on Sunday, so wanted to get down south during the week. So we decided to head south past Liverpool and into Wales, then on down to the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons in Southern Wales.
Of course, now we were leaving the weather was looking great:
We stopped for lunch at Welshpool - we'd had a problem with the sink in the camper blocking. Something to do with Sally trying to wash rice down the waste trap :( , so we parked in the supermarket car park to get some shopping, and one of those sink plunger things:
Welshpool has an old steam railway too and some canals:
We've used the same campground in the Brecon Beacons a couple of times, but last time found it was very busy and they had a habit of closing the bathrooms for cleaning at exactly the time everyone wanted to use them. So we checked out another campground nearby, and it was great - on the side of a hill, but with some level sites, and stunning views:
Sally trying to use the sink plunger:
We didn't need this after all. My camper lacks a grey tank, so instead I have an old bicycle wheel inner tube attached to the sink drain, which I dangle into a plastic jerry can thing to collect the grey water. So I drove to the black water dump area and used the hose there (that is only used for cleaning toilet cassettes, so is already dirty) - I put it up the inner tube, gripped my hand around it to seal the tube on the hose, then turned the water on to blast the blockage back into the sink.
This worked quite well, as Sally discovered, since she was bending over the sink at the time trying to see what was happening down there :B
Closer inspection did make it clear that I need to find a new waste trap from somewhere - an everyday part in the US, but a different size and type to the ones fitted over here:
