It has been raining pretty consistently here all weekend and this morning has been no different.
It's so lovely to have a bit of a throwback to some sunshine on the North Cornwall coast from just a few weeks ago.
I just have so much to share with you that I don't quite know where to start.
It wasn't just Martin and I heading South ... mum and dad were spending about 10 days in their touring caravan, at Wainhouse Corner, just a short drive away, David (my brother), Alison and Bobby were also spending a fortnight in another holiday cottage literally just up the road and our good friends Lesley and Tom were spending five days staying in a chalet in a holiday park the other side of Bude.
We were hoping to get to spend plenty of time together, getting to see Bobby's first real experiences of the beach and the sea, as well as getting a bit of time on our own to kick back and just generally chill out.
We were travelling on a Friday and we had a reasonably good journey down, with a pleasant hour or so catching up with David, Alison and Bobby at Sedgemoor services, where we stopped for a bit of a breather.
Saturday
Our first full day and we didn't have much on the agenda, just a bit of a mooch round Bude, a look at the sea and just maybe a pitstop somewhere with a view.
Bude was really busy, with a quadratholon under way. We parked at the tourist information car park and dodged the cyclists and the runners as we made our way along the canal towards Summerleaze Beach.
We bumped into David, Alison and Bobby at the shop on the corner, where they were stocking up on buckets and spades, windmills and other general beach paraphernalia necessary for a soon to be two year old.
We just wandered up the main drag, round the back of Sainsburys, where we found the old pub on the top had been converted to apartments ... it has just been so long since we've been down here.
We were heading for 'Life's a Beach'. A cafe with a fabulous view looking over Summerleaze beach. We were soon settled in with cold drinks, the crossword and a view to die for.
We were pretty surprised to spot David, Alison and Bobby in the distance ... you can see them if you look closely ... just to the right of the photo, pottering in the rockpools ...
As they made their way back up the beach we wandered down to meet them ...
... and on the sand ... where the holes Martin made with his walking pole were an endless source of fascination ...

Sunday
We were aiming for another lazy day and we started out with a short amble out to one of both our favourite places ever ... the point above Widemouth Bay ... it's definitely a contender as a scatter point, if you get my drift.
It was a little bit grey overhead but there was plenty of Autumn colour to be seen on the clifftops as we made our way out to the point ...
The point itself is actually on the coastal path ...
... and the views in all directions are amazing. It's a great spot to indulge in a bit of selfie fun ...


Pretty windswept we made our way back to the car and were both quite sad to see this sight on the way ...
Well, the tea room got so popular that it ended up having to relocate to The Weir, a far more commercial operation. Still in a fabulous location, still with great food, still owned by the same people, but just completely different. We had a really nice lunch but were a bit wistful about the loss of the old traditional tea room that we had both loved.
From The Weir it was a short drive to the Sunday car boot sale where we had a good mooch and I managed to stock up on wool ...

So that was our first weekend over, Lesley and Tom were arriving on the Monday so we were looking forward to getting out and about a bit further afield for some real exploring 😀
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