Bournemouth

As followers of our website will be aware we had a new addition to our family in June, so on her first proper trip out, Poppy Alice Butler joined us.

Our frist trip away with Poppy was Bournemouth. When we say first trip away, we had already done a few trips to Wargrave, but this was our first 'holiday' trip away.

Why Bournemouth. Well it was close if we wanted to get home quickly and we like Bournemouth and we found a nice hotel to stay in for our 2 day trip!

Although not planned at the time of booking (honest) our trip away fell on a signficant Apple event day .. Friday 11th July was the launch of the new 3G iPhone. So at 5am on that Friday morning i took a short trip from our hotel to stand outside an O2 store for 3hrs to secure my new iPhone .. i was second in line and had my iPhone 30mins after the store was open!

Brighton - 10th May 2008

We are are in Brighton this weekend for Jo's birthday. We have lucked out with the hotel room. We are staying in the Thistle Hotel which is on the front and we have landed us a room with a view!

The view is of the beach, pier and promenade!

5 Lighthouses later!

So having got off to a good start and having the request read out on Radio 1 we headed for Kent. By half eight we were getting a little peckish so we 'diverted!' to Bluewater - for those that don't know its a shopping centre in Kent!

Breakfast done, and another Apple store visited we continued on our way to Kent and eventually turned up in Dungeness. We shortly ticked off seeing two lighthouses and then headed for Sussex!

Eastbourne was our next stop and here we sampled a very traditional lunch .. fish and chips on the pier!

2 further lighthouses were our next stop at Beachy Head!

The last lighthouse of the day was at the harbour in New Haven.

We finally arrived at our destination of Brighton just before 6pm.

Not a bad day .. 1 Shopping Centre, 1 Apple Store, 2 Piers and 5 Lighthouses!

Radio 1 Birthday Message

Another year older this weekend and for the first time in probably five years we have found ourselves in the UK! But not in Hampshire.

Early Saturday morning we hit the road for a weekend away, it started well with Jo texting Radio 1 and within 5 minutes of the text being sent we were on the airwaves, so to speak!

Click on the link below to hear the message!

Simon's Birthday message on Radio 1.

On the road again!

Here we go again!

Yes we are off on our travels again, and this time we have even more in tow, not just a pensioner but Nik, Caoimhe, and Pip on his/her first documented trip to the south west!

We are pacing ourselves this time and have traveled to Devon today and will make the final leg of the journey to Cornwall, tomorrow.

So we are holed up in a very nice Holiday Express Inn, just outside Exeter. As tradition dictates, we all set out at 6am this morning and converged on Exeter - coming from both Berkshire and Hampshire!

After a trip to Exeter town centre for Breakfast (see the breakfast blog) and the mandatory trip to the Apple Store we headed to some old haunts - Starcross and Dawlish.

In particular Nan will follow this as we re-visited some of Nan and Les's old haunts!!

See all the photos on our FlickR pages. If you go to the FlickR website there are comment to go along with the photos!

Starcross had changed little and Dawlish has manged to continue to be the very traditional sea side town, with very little change.

Places we have visited over the last few years

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