holidays

here we are at corfe castle. it was deliberately knocked down by the Parliamentarians after the civil war, hence the mess

it’s in a ideal location for castle – on top of a little pointy hill with great views in every direction.

here’s jane looking cute and lovely (she is) in her rain coat. behind her is the local stream train line

here is a view from the village overlooking a pub (click for big version)

Jane’s parents kindly offered to look after esther and kezia for the weekend. we couldn’t believe our luck and quickly booked a weekend away in Bournemouth using lastminute.com.
it was excellent to spend time just jane and I (no Internet or children). we missed the kids of course, but had a great time. i highly recommend this to anyone – go on holiday with your partner for a few days without anyone else. just have some fun and forget about everything else.
esther and kezia had a good time at their grandparents, and jane’s parents enjoyed it too. hoorah !
(we’re already looking forward to our next weekend away to Stockholm next summer …)
here is jane by the seaside:

sometimes british sea-side resorts have things their foreign counterparts don’t have. one such thing often present is ‘scum’

yeah – off to bournemouth ! British seaside resorts are so cool.
update: that’s cool as in ‘very cold’. our hotel room didn’t really have any heating to speak of which was a shame.
other than that the hotel we stayed in was fantastic ! Highly recommended (just don’t let them put you in room 96-104 as they are in chillsville).

added a last couple of entries for the holiday – a few of them are backdated. If you want to see the whole story look on the holiday category
especially enjoy the mysterious pink hat mystery

another exposed french toilet

nice touch this time – has a mens’ sign on the side just in case you were confused:

ooh the trouble we had when jane lost her old sunglasses. luckily retail therapy made all good again

tourists in st malo.
girls have pink hats, boys have blue hats
saves trouble later on when people have had too much to drink

however the mystery continued and was finally revealed :

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it’s our last day ont he campsite today. off to another for one night tomorrow then a day on the boat on sunday.
times have been a changing on the campsite recently. the fm radio brigade have moved in with their loud music and angst ridden teenagers are lingering.
we must move on before the adolescents move in.

yesterdays game was bury kezia in the sand. first dig a hole. then kezzy jumps in and pulls loads of sand on to herself shouting ‘pat pat pat’ whilst patting the sand down. we dug her out before going home

in order to raise esther’s hat above eye level we made her wear bunches. she looked silly. but silly is good.

like window shopping, only trespassing. possibly

i saw the sign and had to wonder. not clear if we had to prance in the water, on the water or just on the way