camping bliss

I hadn’t realised how far behind in the blogging i have got. work yada yada etc . SO this weekend we went to Mundesley camping and had a fab time. the roads on fri were clear, i guess the royal wedding had something to do with that . As an aside, i am def more keen on a royal family than a presidency, and am quite happy with the royal wedding, thought it looked wonderful [when viewed later on iplayer] and if BB had been older we might have gone to hyde park, but its not a big enough deal to stay at home to watch on telly when could go to the beach. Where am I?

Ok we went to the beach, Mundesley near Cromer in Norfolk. I love the Norfolk coast . On the way to the campsite we stopped at a lovely farm shop. Yummy supplies for lunch bought we went to the campsite where le ciel rouge was already there putting up their folding camper. We impressed by the speedy minnesota, but i was upset to find there was a tear [small] in the front window. not sure how or when that happened. ANyway, all up, cups of tea, yummy scrummy lunch and a decision to do a geocaching circular walk involving the beach. Lovely walk and found all the geocaches – hooray! though SB managed to tear out the pants of her leggings on the concrete of the boulder. [only SB!] luckilly she was wearing a short dress as her top… The beach was fab. lovely and sandy, the tide was in, and there were huge waves that the girls [and then the dog] had a fab time skipping and jumping in and getting slightly wet. Too late for an icecream at the beach cafe, but picked one up at the local corner shop before walking the long way back to the tent. BB did v well, as it was 4 miles, and she is not a keen walker. Back to a yummy lentil pasta, chatting and a reasonably warm evening before bed.

Saturday we went to Blickling, we are national trust members and do like to get out and about. National trust membership, i think, is a really good deal as it only takes 3-4 visits a year [depending where you go!] to recoup the cost. Blickling had really good guides in some of the rooms, and happy to take questions from the girls. I ended up doing the speedier version with BB [and also Z,S and P] whilst DH did the slower version with SB – she asks loads of questions and is very keen. Beautiful place and lots to look at. DId love the labours of hercules ceiling, and some of the fireplaces were fab. We then went back and had lunch and started on our geocaching walk around the lake. We found all but 1 and had a great walk in fab weather. Had to yomp the last bit as we were v close to icecream closing time [panic!] so DH, SB W,P,S ran ahead to get there in time, and we ended up skipping fast as BB needed the toilet. Hppily reunited with yummy icecreams to boot we declared the day successful and went back to the campsite for a BBQ.

Sunday was a lazy get up and pancake eating session so we were beaten to the beach by lovelyem and family. We were joined later by Jax and family and all had an absolutely fabulous time on the beach. The girls donned their wetsuits and swam in the pools and splashed in the sea. Also made sandcastles. SB and E spent ages digging the deepest and widest hole they could, helped intermittantly by others. BB mostly pootled in her own game and imagination, but we did get her kite out and had great fun flying that. At the end of the day DH tried to stay in thehole till the sea took it over, but we all got a bit bored with that and forced him to leave! everyone came back to the campsite and we finished with a chippery tea. Fab day of the perfectest fun variety sun, sea, friends, laughter and conviviality.

Bit of a blowy night, and then a slow packing up the next day. We decided to visit the windmill we had been able to see from the campsite and pick up a geocache there. It, and the gift shop and house are all for sale Lovely mill, worth a nose about, and a nice gift shop next door, where the girls both found something to spend their holiday money on. we stopped on the way back at a lovely pub serving delicious food with a big vegan and veggie menu as well as the meat . Cught abit in the post long BH traffic getting home, but did eventually make it and watched dr who before collapsing into bed.

A great holiday, refreshing, with friends and sunshine. What more can a family want