Holiday - Finale - part1

fifteen was fantastic, no fat duck not even close obviously, but it was still a great meal and a very pleasant experience, great location and the staff are fantastic, very happy we went. toddled down to the beach for beers and a customary beach pee, met some night fisherman and watched some dudes with torches miles away doing something which we are still not sure what? looked like they were picking something up off the beach but what I will never know.

spent the last couple of days juts enjoying the scenery, hit a place called Constantine bay which was just brilliant really enjoyed it, spent the day yesterday packing up the tent dipped into Newquay for a farewell pasty and then set off on our way home, traffic was abysmal, we did 55miles in about 2hrs we stopped off for a burger king at the services and then crawled home, got to see a motor home that looked like it had exploded, all the back left corner was blown out revealing the chintzy wall paper and curtains within.

anyway that pretty much closes this short chapter of my life, some more pictures to upload when I get the phones and camera unpacked from the mountain of stuff in my car.

its been a fantastic week, I have done nothing but enjoy some amazing scenery and had chance to reflect on what it's all about really, not sure I got any answers as such but I do feel more at peace with not knowing and looking forward to the future and what it may hold.

next holiday is a long weekend in London for the NFL international series game around the 26th october.

think I will keep on blogging its a good excuse to do stuff so I have something to blog about (how backwards is that :) )

ta ta for now little blog

Holiday - DAY3 - Pictures

Holiday - DAY2 - Pictures 2

The Dork Knight

Holiday - DAY2 - Pictures

reflected in a huge mirror ball

Les statue worrying in Bristol

Holiday - DAY2 - evening

we did not get to fifteen tonight, however we did manage to teach newquay a thing or two about the party, we spent a large percentage of the night in walk about drinking premium aussie import beer we went for a piss on newquay beach where the children will get to play in our excretions tomorrow, we then ventured into help bar where some foxy chick in a belt kept trying to sell us cheeky shots of vodka, she was like some greek godess wearing a loin cloth however we stuck to double JD and mojitos.

Holiday - DAY2 - Afternoon

we have made it to watergate bay, we are officially on cornish soil, the sun is shining and there is enough breeze to make putting the tent up fun, its pegged down and les is sorting the inside bits out, got some pictures to post tonight when i fire up the laptop.

we are going to 15 tonight for dinner, don't pull that face mitson ;)

also going beach hunting in 10mins or so, traffic was a breeze on the way over from bristol, and we are aiming for newquay tomorrow will post more tonight, ta ta blog

Holiday - DAY1 - Evening

an eventful day

see us in the ibis at bristol, a late start from nottingham due to traffic and a necessary stop at tesco and asda, managed to make a slight wrong turn onto a one way street, but luckily the bus coming the other way alerted me to the mistake, stuck it in reverse and all was well ;)

we have stocked up on beer and ice so things should be great for the adventure to start proper tomorrow. probably going to stop in at fifteen tomorrow night for tea.

time for bed now.

sorry nat no man on man spooning pics yet

Holiday - DAY1 - Afternoon

got the lot with the exception of the big knife, rape alarm, and ice.

just had a call from the boy Les and its green for go, wheels up in 20mins after I have packed my stuff into the car and worked out my new i-trip.

I shall post pics tonight of our first stop and details of the journey so far.

bye bye northallerton hello open road, good music, the feeling of the wind in my hair and the freedom to explore what remains of the Empire.

Holiday - DAY1 - Morning

It's Tuesday morning, just setup the blog and posted a link on mookismo, going to dive in the shower, hit argos up for some camping essentials, I don't have a torch and from what I remember of past camping trips a torch is essential, after having perused the camping section of the argos catalogue I now have an urge to by a big knife, I really don't think this will serve any use but it seems like the only sensible thing to do on a camping trip is to have a big knife, by big I am not talking machete, I am talking features, if it doesn't have a descaler or a compass I am not interested, the real quandry is do I stick safe and go with the swiss army knife, or do I opt for the camping geeks new poster boy the leatherman? I shall make that decision in town.

I need

a camping ground roll thing (crappy piece of foam)

to find my big box cooler

Ice for cooler

Torch (something multifunctional)

rape alarm

some army type cooking tin things (I had some when I was a cub)

a gas stove and gas

a chair

a disposable BBQ

I will report back after my reconnaissance with details of the results :)

Pickle Corpse, he is no more