People often ask how we manage to visit more than one place in a day on holiday. I always say it’s getting up early (although many holiday tourist spots don’t open til later than places at home), being focused on what we want to see, and having a child who rushes round places and doesn’t dawdle. He obviously takes after me (I’m like that with shopping and museums) On our recent camping holiday in South Wales, one day we knew… Continue Reading “Exploring The Mumbles and Oystermouth Castle”
One of the things I love about holidays is getting out and about. I’m not great at getting out around home, unless we go out for the day, but on holiday there’s always places I want to see and do. This camping trip the weather wasn’t that great for doing much once we’d spent the 2 sunny days on the beach. But once the rain cleared in the afternoons we did cram in a couple of extra detours to places.… Continue Reading “A blustery Rhossili bay walk”
When you go on summer holiday with children, the main aim is usually to spend time on the beach. For 3 years running we’ve always gone camping with friends in the same week, and so far have had pretty good weather throughout. This year though, only going for 4 nights instead of the usual 6, and we weren’t as lucky. We had 2 beautiful days of sunshine – arrival day and the second day, and did manage to make the… Continue Reading “Welsh beaches – Three Cliffs Bay and Caswell Bay”
This year’s camping trip with our friends (mums and kids, plus 2 token dads), was to the Gower in Wales. We were camping right above Three Cliffs Bay which is stunning…but a painful walk back up from the beach even without all your camping gear. There’s a choice of route down to the bay. We decided to go via the river and stepping stones which was lovely. Then it was a long slog over to near the water where we… Continue Reading “My Sunday Photo – stepping stones”
