Aaaah, the honeymoon. White sand, clear seas, blue skies, cocktails and hand-in-hand romantic walks with the ocean lapping at our bare feet, right?
But this is us you’re talking about, so think again!
Here’s a very quick run down of our top honeybop activities:
- Lovely lovely dinner in the very posh Randolph hotel in Oxford, where the concierge parking vehicles raised his eyebrows at our camper van saying “well, this is a first…”
- Driving along Sandbanks on the way to Studland bay ferry – absolutely beautiful scenery and glorious weather
- Darts open contest at Swanage – although Husband crashed out in the first round, we had a great chat with the locals
- Climbing morning at Dancing Ledge with ex Marine, Jim Oakley - he got me up a tricky climb on my third attempt and gave us a great morning out
- Camping in a lush little field right next to another Bedford CF van! Hoorah! Had a lovely evening in the Square and Compass pub (a reverse tardis – looks massive on the outside but weeny inside!) with our camper van buddies, drinking lovely beer and cider
- Bought one of the last wheelbarrows in Wareham and took part in the Swanage carnival wheelbarrow race. A heady mix of 9 pubs, 120 people careering round in their wheelbarrows, 2 blokes in mankinis, bundling to get to the trestle tables of halves of bitter, and sprinting to the end to find piles of sick where people had overdone it somewhat. A completely random thing to do! Some brilliant pictures here…
- The Torbay steam fair! Featuring a Tractor drive-by, steam engines, other engines, woodcutting engines, threshing machines, proper cakes and tea in china cups, old people sitting on deckchairs and good proper games like a coconut shy.
- Breaking even at Newton Abbot Races and buying some comedy old cookbooks (The Good Cook’s Encyclopedia, 1963) and records (Jungle Book) in the local charity shops
- Bovington Tank Museum – a great day out and loved seeing the old military boys helping out with the tanks. They obviously loved it, especially careering round in them in the ‘attack’ display at lunchtime.
- An afternoon in the rain spent cosying in the camper with sloe gin and Enid Blyton books.
- Travelling by steam train in Swanage then to Dartmouth from Paignton – both brilliant and I love the chugga chugga of steam travel!
- A luscious cream tea provided in Dartmouth by the bowling club ladies, eaten whilst listening to big band 40s music at the bandstand – very english, very lovely.
- BBQing dinner whilst drinking champagne – there’s something very incongruous about doing this, especially whilst sat next to a 70s camper; but we loved it!
- Skimming stones at Durdle Door – a complete throwback to my childhood; I’m still rubbish at it!
And the worst thing about honeymoon? Coming back…
