The primary purpose of this blog is to remind us of our holidays, where we’ve been, what we did. However this also provides a secondary purpose too, to let our family and friends see too. Oh and thirdly, it saves us having to send post cards.
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Day 5 – “Lets go to The Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over” – Sort of!
Ok, so we’re not in a Zombie apocalypse, or on the set of Sean of the Dead, but we did go to Winchester. The plan was to have a look round the city, have a nice lunch somewhere, and generally mooch about. Waze took us to the wrong car park to start with, but we…
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Day 4 – Eats, Trees, and Leaves
We had a relaxing day at the lodge today, but we did go for a wander round the site and down to “The Retreat” which is the onsite Cafe, Restaurant, Shop, Checking In, Take out and Delivery place. We had a cup of tea, well Laura did, Adam and I had an ultimate hot chocolate…
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Day 3 – One Church
Today is Remembrance Sunday and we’re off to Adam’s church, One Church, in Emsworth. Knowing we were around an hour away, Adam wanted us to go to his church for one of the morning services and the 6pm service, and we were more than happy to go. We arrived at around 11am, in time for…
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Day 2 – Shopping & Grooming
The joy of self catering holidays is shopping and the closest big shop was Tesco in Winchester; its only about 8 miles away, so that’s where we went. Adam wanted some new clothes that were more suited to work, so we picked up some smart new tops and a new jacket. After Tesco’s we popped…
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To The Trees…
Today we go to Blackwood Forest in Hampshire for our week away. The last time we had a break was back in June… so we are ready for it. Before we leave, we have the hot tub engineers round to replace the control box in the hot tub.. I’m not confident with their ability, a…
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Chester City Centre Tour
Today we went to Chester City to have a look round. It’s a roman city dating back to 79AD. The city walls are some of the best-preserved in the country and have Grade I listed status. Apart from a 100-metre (330 ft) section, the walls are almost complete (From Wikipedia so it must be true). Its a…
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Wednesday Evening Update
So an update to the blog from Wednesday. As you may have read, Adam bought Cards Against Humanity (CAH)- Family Edition, but he also dropped face masks and nose pore strips into the trolley for us to have a try… So after dinner, which was awesome of course, well the Mac ‘n’ Cheese was, the…
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Wrexham AFC, Car Repairs, & Red Kites
We went to see Wrexham football stadium today. If you don’t know the story, Hollywood super star Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought Wrexham AFC in 2020 They’ve invested heavily in the football club and consequently the town. It’s a real rags to riches story, as within those two years, Wrexham have gone up two…
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Chester Zoo Visit
This post will be more of a photo gallery post of what we saw at Chester Zoo. However, I will say that it was amazing. The amount of space that each animal has, and the way they seemed to be cared for is heartening. We had great weather for it, a definite answer to prayer…