So...after Morecambe, the next night Will and I stayed in a Romany Caravan near Appleby. It was on a farm by Langton Beck and was 'off grid', in that there were no mains facilities. The lights were powered by a car battery, the toilet, described as 'composting', was basically a bottle and a bag in a bucket. The cooker was electric but you had to put on a generator to use that. Outside there was a wood fired hot tub.

The generator wouldn't stay on and kept switching off. Luckily there was also a camping gas stove outside so we were able to cook our tea.

Once again we were lucky with the weather and we spent a lovely two hours under a clear starry sky in the hot tub but it also meant that it got very cold in the night. There was a heater but we needed the generator to use that and of course that wasn't working.

To top it all off I ended up with a terrible stomach ache and spent much of the night venturing out into the freezing temperatures to visit the bag in a bucket. We woke in the morning to find the window iced up on the inside!

You could say it was an experience but one that we wouldn't want to do again, well, not at the beginning of March!