By William Coleman
With just 7 days until Christmas the rush is on. The shops are totally crammed with Christmas shoppers and supermarkets are the busiest they have been all year. All this rushing around and stress for 1 single day, and the shops are open the very next day. We all put so much pressure on ourselves at Christmas, but there is another option for those who do not want all that stress.
Touring brings freedom to have any type of holiday that you want. So when it comes to a Christmas getaway I have made a list of, given the choice of total freedom, where I would go and what I would do on Christmas Day.
My Winter Location
For a great Christmas setting that looks picturesque in the winter I would have to choose the Castleton Club Club site. The back drop and surroundings to this site are worth the travel to the Peak District. Like all Club sites the pitches are spacious with lots of room while still feeling involved in the site community. This place really does look amazing during the winter.
Big Christmas Breakfast & Dinner
The first thing I think of when I wake up on Christmas morning is how much food I am going to consume that day, and it starts with breakfast! I am a 7 item breakfast person. Eggs, bacon, beans, sausage, hash brown, chips and black pudding, with toast on the side. All of which is very easily done with any good size hob with an oven and grill. I recently reviewed a number of motorhomes by Swift their new kitchens are very spacious and have so much cold and ambient storage. So making breakfast, lunch and then a good size Christmas dinner for 2-6 people will be no issue what so ever.
So when it comes to the Christmas dinner I have been given a thousand different combinations over the years. Growing up we always had turkey with your standard Sunday roast sides. The older I got the more experimental the Christmas dinners got.
Now as an adult I have tailor made my own modern, yet traditional, Christmas dinner. It starts with the 3 meats. Lamp, beef and cooked ham joint. With the The vegetables is where it gets interesting. Sprouts cooked with bacon bits and maple syrup, potatoes roasted in duck and sprinkled with everyday seasoning (this is a taste sensation which should be tried by the masses. Once the meat and potatoes are done all you need to do is steam the carrots along with the parsnips and fry them off in honey. That is the dinner fully cooked with all the amenities that any good caravan or motorhome provides.
Pudding and other Christmas afters
When it comes to pudding I have always tried to steer away from the traditional Christmas pudding. I feel it is all about choice and eating whatever you want and not what tradition dictate, to an extent. For the traditional option I always ops for a good Christmas pudding with cream or a luxury vanilla pod custard. For the not so traditional option I choose an apple pie with lots of cinnamon.
Once the sweets are done it’s time for a cheese board and some italian red and white win with a big box of Quality Street.
Once you are festively full put on the original Star Wars trilogy and await the Boxing Day feast and start all over again.
