So finally after who knows how long, it's time to update my blog. No dogs. Cats, pool, house or other worries, time to just sit and relax. A glass of beer, the fire is on, dinner on the go and time all to myself.
After a long flight, we landed at Heathrow and had our usual wait for the taxi to shuttle us to the car hire company. When we got there, they had upgraded our car (thank goodness) because we have quite a lot of luggage, and plan to fill it with loads more once we hit the shops.
We arrived at Martin and Anne-Marie's place in Blackheath and met gorgeous little Harry, their latest addition to the family – what a cute baby and so good! Don't envy them though, we were chatting about 'nursery' costs for them when they send Harry, and it's going to cost around GBP1100 per month, that's roughly R12 200 per month, HECTIC!!!!!
Had a lovely time walking around the village, had lunch at the local pub and spending the evening chatting and catching up.
This morning we hit the road and drove down to Newquay in Cornwell. We stopped along the way to see "Stonehenge" which Rob had always told us was just a bunch of rocks, well it pretty much is, but now we can say we have done that. Cannot believe how busy it was there with all the tour buses.
We also bought ourselves an annual 'heritage pass' which allows us unlimited visits to all the heritage sites around England, and just 3 visits already pays for the card, so money well spent.
We arrived at our timeshare which is very nice and then hit the shops for some groceries. We cannot believe how cheap things are here, we bought a trolley load of stuff including a braai, big thermos flask, cooler bags, beer, cheese and biscuits, food, simple groceries from salt and pepper etc etc and the total bill was GBP149, I can tell you now that it would have been well over R2500 for the same trolley load in Cape Town. An example is Boursin Cheese which in Woolworths costs R55+ here costs GBP1 – GO FIGURE!!! A bottle of spray on olive oil – GBP1.99,
We took a stroll around the town and cannot believe the number of 'stag' and 'hen' parties going on, appears to be quite the party town.
The braai is on, veg in the oven and boys playing cards after having played ball games for around an hour.
Tomorrow we are off to either Lands End or Tintagel, we'll see how we feel in the morning.
After a long flight, we landed at Heathrow and had our usual wait for the taxi to shuttle us to the car hire company. When we got there, they had upgraded our car (thank goodness) because we have quite a lot of luggage, and plan to fill it with loads more once we hit the shops.
We arrived at Martin and Anne-Marie's place in Blackheath and met gorgeous little Harry, their latest addition to the family – what a cute baby and so good! Don't envy them though, we were chatting about 'nursery' costs for them when they send Harry, and it's going to cost around GBP1100 per month, that's roughly R12 200 per month, HECTIC!!!!! Had a lovely time walking around the village, had lunch at the local pub and spending the evening chatting and catching up.
This morning we hit the road and drove down to Newquay in Cornwell. We stopped along the way to see "Stonehenge" which Rob had always told us was just a bunch of rocks, well it pretty much is, but now we can say we have done that. Cannot believe how busy it was there with all the tour buses. We also bought ourselves an annual 'heritage pass' which allows us unlimited visits to all the heritage sites around England, and just 3 visits already pays for the card, so money well spent.
We arrived at our timeshare which is very nice and then hit the shops for some groceries. We cannot believe how cheap things are here, we bought a trolley load of stuff including a braai, big thermos flask, cooler bags, beer, cheese and biscuits, food, simple groceries from salt and pepper etc etc and the total bill was GBP149, I can tell you now that it would have been well over R2500 for the same trolley load in Cape Town. An example is Boursin Cheese which in Woolworths costs R55+ here costs GBP1 – GO FIGURE!!! A bottle of spray on olive oil – GBP1.99,
We took a stroll around the town and cannot believe the number of 'stag' and 'hen' parties going on, appears to be quite the party town.The braai is on, veg in the oven and boys playing cards after having played ball games for around an hour.
Tomorrow we are off to either Lands End or Tintagel, we'll see how we feel in the morning.
We then continued on to Lands End where we had our customary photograph taken and will have them posted back to Cape Town. I loved this sign on the building . . .
Next stop was Marazion – St Michaels Mount where we again scratched around the fishing village after a walk on the beach. Found some lovely ring stands here and had our scones and jam and clotted cream. It was quite amazing driving around the countryside here, it is so similar to the Western Cape when you go up the garden route. 
We are home now and about to start another BBQ, the sun is still shining brightly, feels like it's about 3.30, when it's actually 7pm. After dinner we are going to wonder down to the beach here at the resort and take some photo's of the stunning sunset.