2021
A Gibson family holiday to Bishops Castle, a Greenslade Holiday to St Ives and a bit of gadding about the UK.
Bishops Castle – Stiperstones and leaving
Another pretty chilled morning with a lovely sunrise. The town was fully open today so we all nipped out for a coffee or whatever. Harry treated me to coffee and cake at the Poetry/Coffee shop. Suzie, drove Mum down there so she could have a look around. Harry also bought
Bishops Castle – Chill
The morning light was very bright and so I went for a bit of a walk and got some nice photos of the town and the house. I also took a couple of the garden whe I got back. Mum had a visitor, Sasha(?), who was very helpful to Helen
Bishops Castle – Go Ape
So .. a bit of a rainy blustery day and the youth were off to Go Ape about 1 hours drive south of where we were. It was supposed to be raining and a bit blustery but they seemed to have a really good time. I made a little
Bishops Castle – Cinema
Monday – Freedom day! I went for a walk with Ben in the grey and drizzly weather following the exact same route that we did with Lesley and the clan. Then we had a large 2nd breakfast before going off to the cinema. The cinema was £130 for 1 hour
Bishops Castle – Family Meal
So Sunday arrived and today was to be a big family meal at Mellington Hall. 30+ people – up to 3 courses each. Katie loved to meet her new cousins. The benefit of sons with cars is that they can drive you to somewhere and back. Then everyone came back
Bishops Castle – Little Family Walk
The main part of te day was a walk – all on it apart from Kath and Dudy Mark, Annette, Elinor, Isabel and Evan Tim, Lesley & John Mo and Lesley Sue, Dave, Sam and Harriet Huw, Ruth ,Chris and Ollie Suzie, Harry and Katie The walk was about 7k
Bishops Castle – Getting there
Mum had booked a house in Bishops for the family to all get together for a week in October. The week before half term. We had a full house Mum Suzie, Harry and Katie Me, Sue, Ben, Sam and Harriet (for a couple of days) Huw , Ruth , Chris
St Ives – Day 5
I got up for another dawn and walked up to the Island to see what was happening.As it was around full moon the Moon had not yet set and was above the chapel on the Island. Photographing the moon is quite often dissappointing because our minds (well certainly mine) makes
St Ives – Day 4
We got up for the dawn, just and we dashed down to Porth Gwiddan to have a dawn swim. The sun had just breached the horizon and we braved the chilly Atlantic waters. As usual, once you are in it is lovely. We were in about 30 minutes, I even
St Ives – Day 3
I set my alarm on my new Garmin Watch for 6:30am with a view to getting up for the dawn again. I was glad that I did as it was a great one. I started on the beach by the cottage but then moved to get the sunrise in line
Day 2 – St Ives
Feeling slightly hungover, I still managed to get up for dawn. I didn’t think it would be that good as I could see that clouds would have passed overhead a few hours ago, heading east, and therefore it may obscure the sun on the horizon. It was still very pleasant
Getting to St Ives
The day before getting to St Ives we stayed at Judy & Ivan’s. I went for a long walk in the morning around the Lanner area. It is very good walking country with hills and flat bits , great views and lots to look at. Some of the paths are
Holeacre CL
I awoke about 6am and stepped out to watch the dawn. The mist was lying across the fields and the sheep were all relaxed and mainly sitting down. Susan even came outside in her nightdress for a look. Previous Next After such a lovely dawn, we had a great breakfast
Off again
We were taking Sue’s Mum and Dad on holiday to St Ives, so we thought that we would havecl a couple of days at a CL in Devon just on the edge of Dartmoor. The CL was called Holeacre. It is just past Exeter a couple of miles off the
And back to Southampton
After a good nights sleep, we got up and had some breakfast. We went for another walk along the river, as it was still very hot. Odie, as you can see above found a pal to go racing with. He is really very quick, and surprisingly the other dog is
Driving to Brecon
So we got up after a pretty good night’s sleep and had a tiny breakfast as we would be getting lunch at Andy and Sarah’s. We packed up(we are getting quite good at this now) , plugged in the travel directions to Tesco extra and left Cardiff campsite. On arrival
All About Eve
We had a nice slow start to the day on Sunday and Eve met us at the campsite at about 11:00 for our lunch trip to Penarth. She was due a day out as we had not managed one for a long time due to all the restrictions but she
Driving to Cardiff
So our time in Llangennith was at an end. It was probably just as well as the Welsh schools had broken up and the camping site was getting much busier. We got up and had a cup of tea and then packed up the van in a leisurely fashion. I
Llangenith – Day 3
After another great night’s sleep, and in contrast to yesterday, today we had a plan! We set off nice and early on our walk across the cliffs to Rhossili. The start of this walk is a very steep hill to the rear of the campsite and, in 25 degree heat,
Llangenith – Day 2
Today we did …. virtually nothing. I went for a swim in the morning. sue took a photo and luckily for you, I am but a white blob in the distance. We did see a jelly fish washed up on the beach We skipped breakfast so that we could have
Travelling to Llangenith
We woke up in a leisurely fashion and availed ourselves of Caroline and Chris’s toaster to have toasted sourdough, marmite and hummus for breakfast. We packed the van away slowly, in no rush to start the 4 and a half hour journey to the Gower. However, by 10:30 we were
Tom’s Field – Day 2
We got up and had a jalapeno sausage roll for breakfast, before deciding where to go on our walk, or more which route to take. After the downpour the day before, the coastal path might be a bit boggy. We knew we wanted to go to Swanage so we followed
Tom’s Field – Day 1
After spending the morning packing the van we set off to Dorset to Tom’s Field, via the butchers (Uptons) for bbq meats and sausage rolls and a pie! We were meeting up with Caroline and Chris for a couple of days socializing at the start of our 10 day trip