Thursday 2nd to Thursday 9th March 2017
Well, I really haven't got much to write home about this week, because as it was our last week at Woolacombe Golden Coast Holiday Park, we seemed to have exhausted most of the interesting things that there are to do around here. Therefore, we've mostly been on replay mode and repeated some of our previous activities just to pass the time, but that isn't to say we haven't enjoyed our outings. Additionally, the weather wasn't really on our side - there were more scary gale force winds that at times made us feel like T4rdis2 was a big cocktail shaker, or that we might tip over altogether, and along with that, we had the pleasure of frequent bouts of ferocious rain and hail.
Old Lime Kiln |
Eventually, we arrived once again in Instow, and as we'd enjoyed it so much on our previous visit, we choose the same bench again for our resting place while we gobbled our picnic - overlooking the confluence of the River Taw and Torridge.
Then it was back down the Tarka Trail until we got as far as Braunton, and from there we headed for Croyde, however on the way we got soaked through to the skin by the only passing rouge
Sunday 5th turned out to be another day of bone shaking high winds and rain so we decided to stay in and have a lazy one, and the only time I stirred out of the door was to take advantage of the sites sauna in the afternoon. Having said that I spent a fair bit of my time cooking, and in the near future I'm hopping I'll get round to posting some of my 'T4rdis2 Recipes' on a separate page on this blog. We enjoyed stilton and broccoli soup for lunch, and a lovely lamb pot roast (in our slow cooker) for tea. And how did John spend his time - well mostly doing even more 'plotting'π¨ for our ongoing outings!
On Monday we thought we were going to be confined to quarters again because from the moment we roused from our π΄π€π΄ (about 8.30) the rain hammered down unmercifully - but then suddenly about 1 ish it stopped and allowed glimmers of π€ to peek through the clouds. Now the question was - should we have lunch before we go out? or should we go out and have lunch? We chose the later, so with grumbling hungry tums we hurried down the track to Ilfracombe where we nipped into The Admiral Collingwood's for a pie and a πΊ, before heading into the town to buy a few essential stores for T4rdis2.
Sadly, Tuesday was just a write off, with more miserable weather, so probably the least said the better!
For Wednesday nothing much to say except it was horrible again, but we do want to wish .....
'A very happy Birthday to Louise - Hope you got lots of lovely pressiesππΈπ
Fremington Quay Cafe |
Thursday - Hooray - a bit of sunshine at last - in fact the day was really just like a summer one, and after being 'shut in' for the last 2 days we were definitely going to make the most of it! So 'What should we do?' In the end our activity was influenced by the fact that today was our last in this area, so as we'd enjoyed the Tarka Trail so much there was really very little competition! We were soon mounted up on our bikes and peddling back towards the estuary, but instead of our usual picnic we'd decided to treat ourselves to lunch at the Cafe at Fremington Quay!
This resulted in a considerable delay before we could tear ourselves away and resume our journey, but maybe that made us enjoy our lovely lunch even more. We arrived at Fremington Station Cafe at about 2pm and ordered jacket potatoes, but when they arrived they by far exceeded our expectations, the only bad thing was that the portions were so large we couldn't manage to fit one of their exceedingly lovely looking deserts in!
Our last night was a clear one! |
Finally, it was back home via Woolacombe from where we had a two mile uphill ride to complete our 32 mile circuit - I think that must have been the hardest bit! But when we arrived home there was no peace for the wicked - we still had to rally round and start getting things packed up ready to move on tomorrow - Oh it is a hard life!!
Anyway, that's all for now.
Take Care π
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