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JurekB
Well I have discovered that you cannot just book a dark sky area visit and hope for clear nights.
I barely had 30 minutes for the telescope to enjoy it's first light, there was too much cloud and on one occasion I had to quickly pull it back in between downpours.
I still managed to get ~150 x 10 second exposures in of Andromeda... but lolz, the sheer number of those that are not usable due to small clouds coming in and obscuring things.
It wasn't a wasted venture though, I had some lovely rainy walks in Pembrokeshire during the day, a yurt with a log fire in the evening, and I did learn enough about how to control things, set it up, operate things.
What I need though, is to be far more reactive, to track sky conditions in advance, and have things at hand to get out of London and take advantage of the clear skies when they come.