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huggeroftrees) wrote2011-07-10 06:41 pm
huggeroftrees) wrote2011-07-10 06:41 pm
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I'm BACK!!! :D
Tent is hanging out to dry (why does it always come on to rain just at you're pulling up the guy rope pegs?), sleeping bag is airing, washing is washing, tea is cooking and soon there will be Top Gear followed by an early night.
So, how was it? I give you: Why So Rainy, Weekend? But Was Still Brilliant.
Got there, in the rain. Waited for a bit under the shelter of the toilet block, watching the rain. Decided it was not going to stop (in the rain) so put up the tent anyway (in the rain). It was forecast to be sunny on the Saturday anyway, so any damp could air off then.
Luckily (and possibly, if you ask Alarnis Morisette, ironically) it stopped raining the minute I had the tent up so I could haul out the sleeping bag etc. and do my interior design (how many ways ARE there to set up the inside of a small one-man tent?) in the relative dry.
I may have bent a pole in my hurry to get the thing up in the rain, but we won't talk about that. It stayed up all weekend and that's all that counts.
Walked up to the village and purchased milk, cooked tea, and then - planning an early start to take advantage of a quiet shower before all the millions of other campers with children were up and about - I went to bed.
Up at 6, beautiful quiet empty morning, climbed the hill behind the campsite for a couple of hours, then my friends called by and we went to a water park with their kids for the afternoon. Awesome for kids. Just wet everywhere, rope swings, waterslides, all really basic and wooden and loads of them. Not big or clever, just simple splashity stuff. I won the race with the father up and down the rope nets (there were some dry areas too) mainly by throwing myself down the other side after losing the race to the top. You should have seen the look on his face as I tumbled and bounced my way past him. Upside down. :D
Loser had to brave the rope swings over the pit of water. Hehehehe.
I also went on the beeeeeeeg waterslide cos they dared me, and it looked fun. Best 3 Euro I ever spent.
The whole family came back to the campsite (they had been going to camp, but circumstances intervened) and we sat around in the sun talking rubbish while the kids played in the adventure playground. Then sat around in the sun playing vocabulary card games with the kids. Then sat around in the sun eating burgers. Eventually they left and - planning another early start - I went to bed.
This morning it was up, quiet shower and then off to climb the hill the OTHER side, behind the town/village. Due to poor map reading on my part (they moved the Youth Hostel, Not My Fault) I didn't quite go out the way I wanted to go, but once I'd worked it out I realised I was basically doing my planned loop backwards so that would be ok. Meandered through some woodland, admired the mountains in the distance (another day) and then hurried back to pack up the tent before the throwing out time.
Unfortunately I was chucked off the campsite at 12 (dragged it out to 12:30) and the train didn't come until 3pm. But after the brisk morning's exploration it wasn't too much of a hardship to sit on a quiet countryside station for a couple of hours and read back copies of Empire.
And now I'm home! Very happy and a little more tanned (only a little - I sun-creamed cos I'm good). Hope all your weekends were as awesome. :D
So, how was it? I give you: Why So Rainy, Weekend? But Was Still Brilliant.
Got there, in the rain. Waited for a bit under the shelter of the toilet block, watching the rain. Decided it was not going to stop (in the rain) so put up the tent anyway (in the rain). It was forecast to be sunny on the Saturday anyway, so any damp could air off then.
Luckily (and possibly, if you ask Alarnis Morisette, ironically) it stopped raining the minute I had the tent up so I could haul out the sleeping bag etc. and do my interior design (how many ways ARE there to set up the inside of a small one-man tent?) in the relative dry.
I may have bent a pole in my hurry to get the thing up in the rain, but we won't talk about that. It stayed up all weekend and that's all that counts.
Walked up to the village and purchased milk, cooked tea, and then - planning an early start to take advantage of a quiet shower before all the millions of other campers with children were up and about - I went to bed.
Up at 6, beautiful quiet empty morning, climbed the hill behind the campsite for a couple of hours, then my friends called by and we went to a water park with their kids for the afternoon. Awesome for kids. Just wet everywhere, rope swings, waterslides, all really basic and wooden and loads of them. Not big or clever, just simple splashity stuff. I won the race with the father up and down the rope nets (there were some dry areas too) mainly by throwing myself down the other side after losing the race to the top. You should have seen the look on his face as I tumbled and bounced my way past him. Upside down. :D
Loser had to brave the rope swings over the pit of water. Hehehehe.
I also went on the beeeeeeeg waterslide cos they dared me, and it looked fun. Best 3 Euro I ever spent.
The whole family came back to the campsite (they had been going to camp, but circumstances intervened) and we sat around in the sun talking rubbish while the kids played in the adventure playground. Then sat around in the sun playing vocabulary card games with the kids. Then sat around in the sun eating burgers. Eventually they left and - planning another early start - I went to bed.
This morning it was up, quiet shower and then off to climb the hill the OTHER side, behind the town/village. Due to poor map reading on my part (they moved the Youth Hostel, Not My Fault) I didn't quite go out the way I wanted to go, but once I'd worked it out I realised I was basically doing my planned loop backwards so that would be ok. Meandered through some woodland, admired the mountains in the distance (another day) and then hurried back to pack up the tent before the throwing out time.
Unfortunately I was chucked off the campsite at 12 (dragged it out to 12:30) and the train didn't come until 3pm. But after the brisk morning's exploration it wasn't too much of a hardship to sit on a quiet countryside station for a couple of hours and read back copies of Empire.
And now I'm home! Very happy and a little more tanned (only a little - I sun-creamed cos I'm good). Hope all your weekends were as awesome. :D