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It’s easy to forget the nice places that sit on your doorstep. Sometimes you only realise this once you’ve been travelling and you come back to your home country.

I’ve been Exploring the North Yorkshire Moors in England. Let me show you what I found (in 14 pictures), and at the end I’ll show you some good places to camp – with or without a van.

The Yorkshire Moors is in the north of England. Here:

Welcome to The Moors…

The roads twist round the hills through small villages and farms

The small roads are best for exploring

Pink heather covers much of the land

Cattle graze freely

Much of the land is open access – free to roam

Woodland covers about 22%

It stretches right to the coast. This is whitby abbey

It has the largest concentration of ancient trees in Northern England

Home to toadstools

And toads… or maybe frogs?

This was the sunset at Dalby hill (spot 4 on the map below)

Here are 4 places to camp

1. Harwood Dale Forest. Quiet spot off the road and out of view: Google map link
2. Silpho Forest carparking area with access to forest trail dirt track – can drive down here: Google map link
3. Wheeldale Gill. By a stream in small valley with trail through woods: Google map link
4. Danby Hill. Open gravel area. Very quiet with amazing views of sunrise and sunset: Google map link

Have you been here in your van? how did you find the wildcamping? we got moved once but found that it was generally not a problem. If you have any more places to add to this leave a comment  🙂

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Other UK posts: 10 day camper van and Europe’s biggest, filthiest, muddiest festival

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I’ve never really been to a proper English festival. But Glastonbury has to be about as British as it gets – rain, mud and…

This festival is just too big to show you. But here are some pictures anyway:

We queued for 8 hours

And met up with the Blue Bus

See their amazing bus in my other post: This bus will make you want to live in a bus

We did our hair and makeup

Because our faces don’t match our tickets

To paradise

Here’s how Felix does it…

The festival is in Somerset, England

It’s been going since the 70s

1000 acres of festival

To put the size in perspective

The red line marks how much space Glastonbury festival would take up in central London

A perimeter of 8.5 miles

It has some amazing installations

And performing arts

Here are some more photos…

There’s a Glastonbury newspaper

They’re all printed on that vintage heidelberg printing press in the corner

And a post office to send a postcards home

2016 was the muddiest year yet

Michael Evais (the landowner) says it’s because of global warming

Hundreds of tractors have to tow vans in and out

Here are some more mud photos…

There’s just one rule of the festival: leave no trace

photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images

And that was with 40000 bins

I feel like there’s a message here…

What do you reckon?

Glastonbury is just… HUGE. The lineup of acts is crazily overwhelming. It’s like loads of festivals in one. It can take an hour to walk from one side to the other. For me, it’s all the small things that make this festival unique. Get rid of the big acts and the main stage and get more bins = perfect. What do you reckon?