ello ello everyone. Dean here at last. M has been doing most of the blogs lately, but I found a few moments so here I am:) In the previous posts we were saying that we couldnt find any people in Wales...all of the towns seemed deserted...quite odd. Surely we dont smell that bad already??? We had planned to visit Tenby at some stage....read a link somewhere that called it a lively little town...so we thought...."lively"....it's gotta have some people in it? AND IT DID :) It is a small Welsh town perched on a hillside that fades down with a beach on the left, and a beach on the right...and at the point, where the too beached should join, is a gigantic blob of rock, with enermous caverns carved out by the sea....absolutely brilliant.... and the beaches.....100m of clean fine sand....in a bay where the waves crashed every 3 seconds, no larger than 30cm high...idyllic...and then of course the boys arrived and shook the natural cathedral of rock, sand and waves, with.....Dad!!!!!! Its MY turn to fly the kiyyyyyttteeeeeee... I thought...God....beam me up now pleaseeeeeee?????????
We had our first truly local meal in a Tenby resturant....3 bowls of veg soup, cheese and rolls, and a tea and scones.... (can you tell we were counting every pound spent...). (I later found that M had swiped some of the tubes of sauces that were on the table...viva South Africa!)
Temby was yesterday...spent the night in a CL/farm and carried on driving today towards Bridgend...where we hope to see the Festival of Wales on Thurs/Fri/Sat. In the interim though, we decided to wild camp in the van overnight (tues) to save some money, since our budget is looking very tight. We ended up driving miles looking for a place to hide for the night, and found a groovy spot next to a coal museum parking lot. A grey car was parked in the same parking lot when we arrived, but I thought nothing of it, although it was after closing time for the museum...after a while I noticed it moved to the other side of the parking, away from our van...and again I thought nothing of it....one look at our kids and I would have done the same......As darkness began to fall, I noticed the car was still there..a bit odd I thought...and by now all sorts of warning signals were going off in my head.... (Yes, I know...His small voice was by now shouting...this is not the place to spend the night...idiot)..... I carried on cleaning out the camper and noticed a packet on the floor in the middle of the parking lot...thought it was from our van, and promptly went to pick it up to throw away....had a look inside and ...um...it contained a huge box of Duratex...um ...condoms....an empty box....... it only took a minute for my fantastic powers of reason to connect the dots...we were parked in a nightime "entertainment" area.....and unless we wanted "entertaining" we should rather find somewhere else....:)
We fed the kids, put them in their beds, and drive 20mins to Porthcawl....nearer to Bridgend...on the coast....and Woaaahhhhh....brilliantt....we found a whole beachfront of parked camper vans!!!! Safety in numbers :)))) I peaked out into the darkness just now and it should be a beautiful beach in the morning.... on the map it shows blue flags on a few beaches, and they are REALLY stunning....
yes yes, you want pics...I know. Prob is we havent had time to resize them. I will try stick one up now...from an earlier adventure :)
1 comment:
U r wicked, interrupting a couple while they are having a good snog and of course the unmentionable, you should have stayed there and put the kids to sleep and made it a naughty romp night it could have been fun, but of course this is the Squires we are talking about and not the Hammonds.
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