Why Weymouth? Well we are lucky enough that my parents have a static caravan on a site there so in effect we get a free holiday - bar spending money of course, and no, not that we spend the holiday in a bar haha
Teen 1 really didn't want to come is year, but as he wont take an interest in cooking there was no way I could even contemplate leaving him home alone for two weeks. His answer was "I'll live on pot noodles for two weeks, Syndicate (youtuber if you aren't aware) lived on them for a month once " !!! I told him to be grateful as there are some people who don't get a holiday. So, the reason he didn't want to come, rubbish Internet. Yup, the site is lovely, in a lovely location, well kept but the wifi is absolutely terrible. Yes, the park is at the bottom of a hill in a "dip" as they say but there must be something they can do to improve it, surely. Anyway this isn't about rubbish internet connection although I have to admit even I struggled as had to keep my eye on how. I have data I was using. Kids without YouTube are a bored mess 😂
We were so lucky with the weather and I came home with a lovely tan, people couldn't believe I'd been away in England. It just shows that you don't have to holiday abroad if you get the weather here. Yes of course I'd love to be able to take them abroad, although how they would cope without YouTube God only knows, but as anyone who is a single parent knows, it's not always plain sailing and money doesn't stretch that far. Saving to go to Center Parcs was hard enough !
We visited a few places while we were away. Our first outing was to Studland Bay. There are lots of little beaches here, and is really lovely, it's run by the national trust so the car parks are quite expensive but I don't mind paying if it helps towards the upkeep, they tried to get us to pay for an annual membership to the national trust. Hmmm £9 car park for the day or £110 for an annual membership?! If we lived local maybe I'd consider it but where we live there is unfortunately nowhere close enough to get our money's worth which is a real shame. Anyway, we had a lovely day on the beach, the sun shone and the wind blew, catching us all out and Teen2 burnt his back quite badly, not blister badly, but it was sore for quite a few days afterwards. After lunch along came an ice cream boat, yup that's right, what a great idea I thought until I had to wade out to almost waist height to buy very expensive ice creams !!! All good fun, but not when the waves are lapping around your thighs and it's bloody freezing!! 😊
Gorgeous beach at Studland.
There is a beach there that does water sports but gets very busy as we found out last year so we gave it a miss this year.
One day we walked along the beach all the way to Weymouth. (Our caravan is on the outskirts of Weymouth) we went for lunch, had a walk around and caught the bus back. My god, how much does a bus cost nowadays?!! I couldn't believe it !
Famous Weymouth clock
Another day we went crabbing round the harbour which is always a favourite. We do tend to get a bit competitive about how many we catch, this year we even caught a fish ! But don't worry, we always put them back.
Other activities included the cinema to watch Finding Dory although only myself and Teen2 went to see it. We did pirate adventure golf (me n my dad got hole in ones!) spent the day on Weymouth beach, played tennis and went swimming to name a few. We also tried to go celebrity spotting as there was filming for the new Dunkirk movie so there were rumours that Harry Styles and Tom Hardy were in town. We hung around for a bit as Teen2 is a One D fan (we went to see them in concert in October and have to admit, it was a fantastic show!!) we didn't see anyone famous though as they were filming at sea. They also filmed very late at night to try and stop the fans seeing ! I did get a phot of the WB lorry though 😀
We also went to West Bay which I loved. They filmed Broadchurch there and we walked along the beach and took photos of the cliffs and waves. Saddo that I am, my fave thing to do is to try and get a pic of the perfect wave !!
They also had a vintage emporium close to the beach which was awesome, if it weren't for the kids I could've spent hours in there, and spent a lot of money !! I have to mention it only costs £2 to park for the whole day at west bay, I couldn't believe it. We had lunch in a little cafe and had a wander round the small harbour. There isn't loads to do there so we headed home around 3pm but we had been there since 10.30am. I'd definitely like to go back.
We also discovered another beach when we tried to go to sandbanks in Poole. Unfortunately the car park at sandbanks was full so we followed a few "alternative beach" signs and found Branscombe Chines. We had to walk down a massive slope and steps to get to it but it was a hidden gem ! The walk back up was really hard though !
I love a beach hut, they remind me of being a youngster and holidaying with my grandparents, we always hired a beach hut !!
So all in all a good holiday with daily moaning about the Internet and panic about running out of data. Goodness knows what will happen next year. I do dread the moment where I have to leave Teen1 at home, it does indeed fill me with dread and panic. I know it's all part of the growing up, but Christ I am not looking forward to it. How does everyone else get on when it comes to that scary moment? 😔
Anyway, that's enough babbling for now,
Toodlepip doodlebugs, thanks for reading
catch you soon
xx
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