Hoggarths

A back to nature weekend for us. I was initially a bit worried about the weather – it was forecast to rain pretty much all weekend but by the time we got the our campsite – it was Sunny and pretty much (bar 1 shower per day) stayed like that.
Hoggarths campsite just west of Keld in the upper corner of Yorkshire is the kind of place we’ve been looking for for years – a really natural chilled out, laid back spot that lets you have fires next to a river. In fact it’s next to my favourite river – the Swale, just where it first gets called “The River Swale”.
A bunch of lovely people made up our camp family, lovely scenery and enough of everything we needed. Friday night involved sitting round the campfire with happy heads on drinking beer n rum. Saturday sunrise I got to hang out with Jaygo for a bit, as the day woke up we dug out the cricket set and had played for most of the afternoon.
J & H turned up late afternoon which was great - we've not seen much of them since they left Harrogate - all the kids (6 in total) got on so well. They were so looking forward to seeing each other.
They al loved playing in the river which felt quite safe even for the little ones. Had a lovely fire that evening and the Sunday involved lots of fly fishing on the Swale. Met the owners of Hoggarths briefly after someone phoned through a message that a set of on site truck keys had been accidentally taken back to Harrogate! Lovely couple, lovely spot, very reasonably priced, hope to go back there at some point.