Some more holiday antics:
We spent quite a few days at the beach whilst we were in wales. As well as getting covered in sand, splashing in the sea, and sunbathing, we had our very first attempt at fishing. We used two children's fishing rods, which we had purchased online. They were actually river fishing kits, but they did the job none the less! We managed to catch this little fishy (which we threw back into the sea) and a rather menacing looking crab!
Whilst the 2 little men were off splashing in the sea, I had a quiet snooze whilst sunbathing. But my hubbie doesn't "do" sitting on the beach. So he kept himself occupied by making sand sculptures. My pics below don't really do the sculptures justice. They really were rather fab!!
A man's head and shoulders buried in the sand!
A man (with a slightly huge bum) sitting on a rock!! Think this was an artists impression lol!!
You will have to try and imagine this one..... A mermaid lying on a rock. Her tail is flopping forward over the rock. Can you work it out??
There we go, 3 cute sand sculptures! Just as well we live near to Weymouth, as they have a sand man here that makes fab sculptures from sand. So when hubbie gets bored I will send him to create some more sand art! Heeee!!
We visited Drayton Manor whilst on our travels. Our main purpose of this trip was to visit Thomas Land, as our littlest man is Thomas The Tank Engine obsessed!! We actually camped in the grounds of Drayton Manor for 2 nights. It was lovely, as you could wander around the park grounds after the 20,000 visitors had gone home. The rides were really good too. The only problem was (as with most theme parks) - queuing to go on the rides! But it is definitely somewhere to go and visit if you are ever in the Staffordshire area.
Just another of the many wonderful trains that we saw at the National Railway Museum. We had a great day out here. My grandad used to be a signalman and my brother and I used to take his lunch up to him in a wicker basket. We would stay there a while and help him pull on the signal leavers to change the track over, and press the alarm bell to warn car drivers of the barriers going down. I saw lot's of reminders of the" good old days" whilst wandering around the museum. I totally LOVED this visit.
This is a view up the top of one of the mountains in the Lake District. WOW!!
Where I am pointing should be just about on top of Dora our campervan.
A beautiful stream that ran just up the road from our camp site in Cumbria. In fact the water we drank came from this very river.
This was the colour of our drinking water!! Take a peek at the next couple of pics.....
Being a soft southerner, I made the mistake of going to tell the campsite owner that I thought the water shouldn't be this dirty, yellow colour. I was met with a funny look between the 2 men in the campsite reception, and then one of them explained that the more rain we had, the yellower the water would be. But it was perfectly fine for drinking. Well, we did drink it, and to be honest it tasted delicious. Our camping neighbours ( from Sunderland) said to us that they were boiling all their water or using bottled water (even for cleaning their teeth!) So maybe us Southerners are really not that soft after all??
We wandered into the nearest little town of Keswick. It was gorgeous! I just had to come away with some delicious Kendal mint cake. Unfortunately it only lasted me a few minutes!! I LOVE Kendal mint cake!
Wandering around on one of our many afternoon strolls I took some pretty pics. Here is a wall covered in moss. In fact most walls surrounding the campsite were covered in moss!!
Lot's of "Black Beauties"
A view of the nearest lake to us.
On the very last night of our holiday we were met with this beautiful sky. WOW.
We really did have an amazing holiday. Shame it all doesn't last a little bit longer. We traveled 1200 miles, and visited places we had never been before. Hopefully we will pop away on the odd weekend in Dora until the time comes next summer for our next family holiday. Hope you have all had a lovely summer? Let me know what you have been up to as I would love to know xxx
