We have just all come back from a week in Dorset and then a weekend in Somerset. We took along Travelling Ted from nursery and had to fill in his passport, write a diary for him and take some photos to put in his photo album. This is what we wrote in his diary:
We all set off early Saturday morning and 7 hours later we arrived at our holiday cottage called ‘The Willows’ in Charmouth, Dorset. It was literally 5 minutes walk from the beach. Charmouth is world famous for its fossils. The remains of Jurassic sea creatures can be found. We visited Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre and Jamie’s daddy bought a book called ‘The Fossil Hunters of Charmouth’. Sunday morning we spent fossiling on the beach in the rain.
Jamie and I loved playing with the bucket and spade on the beaches at both Lyme and Charmouth. The beach in Lyme Regis was very sandy and safe for toddlers and bears. Jamie and I did lots of paddling in the water; which was lovely and warm. The only real problem on the beach were the seagulls that sometimes swooped down and pinched peoples sandwiches’, but Jamie kept chasing them away. Lyme Regis also had an amusement arcade where another little bear joined us after Jamie won him in a game.
On Wednesday it was raining and so we all went to Abbotsbury Children’s farm where Jamie took a baby goat for a walk and gave it a bottle of milk. We also saw lots of other animals. Jamie cuddled a guinea pig and touched a tortoise, talked to the alpacha's and birdies in the walk-in aviary. He also rode a tractor and played in the soft play area in The Tithe Barn.
In the afternoon we stopped off in Weymouth and Jamie took me for a walk in the pram along the pier; where we saw some very big boats and lots of people sea fishing. It was raining but we all had an ice cream to cheer us up.
There was a pub in Charmouth village where we went for tea a couple of times and they also had a couple of goats. But it was their Beer Garden with all its swings and slides and big play boat that we liked the best!
On our last day we visited Dinosaurland Fossil Museum at Lyme Regis and mummy bought Jamie some dinosaurs to play with later. As we went for our last walk on the beach we saw a man Stonebalancing. Then we heard a loud noise and The Red Arrows appeared! They did a fantastic display over the harbour as part of Lyme Regis and Charmouth RNLI Lifeboat week. Jamie bought a blow up Red arrow which is now hanging from his ceiling at home.
On the way home we stopped off at some of Jamie’s mums friends in Somerset who had a big party on the Saturday night and then took us all to Perry’s Cider Mills; a working Cider Farm, in Dowlish Wake on the Sunday.
We ate far too much on our travels to Dorset and Somerset but the Ice Cream and the fish and chips were lovely. We are all going to go on a diet now.
The holiday ran (mostly) smoothly with a few tantrums from all of us along the way. The key (as always) is to be prepared and to fill the car as much as possible in order to be ready for any eventuality. This meant we had swimming costumes and waterproofs, sandals and wellies; all of which we needed due to the changing British weather! Jamie however, loved all aspects of it; from jumping in muddy puddles like Peppa to jumping in the sea!
Although we purposefully chose a cottage on one storey so we would not have to worry about the stairs, we still worried about Jamie getting up in the night and going into the kitchen or getting into trouble elsewhere. This meant that one of us always slept with him; either in his room or he slept in the big bed. Unfortunately none of the beds were what you would call comfy!
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