Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts

Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Camping in South Wales


Bank holiday and camping seemed like a good idea.


We tried to make the most of the English summer. Weather forecast was not fantastic for Sunday and Monday but Saturday looked ok. We packed up and decided to go to south of wales.


We camped in  the National Showcaves Centre for Wales. Once everything was set up and the wood burner was on....


...we toasted for a good weekend.


Ate pasta...


...and the girls roasted marshmallows for pudding.



Almost forgot to mention the short walk from the campsite before dinner.


Within five minutes walk we were at the animal farm.


 A very happy little girl.





Emily loved stroking the animals there. They were not shy at all. I think the animals at the farm are quite used to people.


Then we were guided to the playground by Emily.

 
 
She tried few times to hit the golf ball but...
 

In the end decided to just pick it up and put it in the goal.


 
I sat down and watched her play.
 

Later that day we made tea and just almost behind the woods where we were camping was the river so decided to sit and relax for a while.


Emily as always likes to throw stones in the water.


Olivia decided to cross the river across. Thankfully the level of water was quite low.


 
Sipping tea, knitting by the riverside all so good. Emily asked me to knit her a scarf. I am using the leftover wool from one of her very first cardigan I knitted for her. She grew so quickly out of it. I think next time I should knit one size big. Anyway, this scarf is a very easy knit. Just blocks of knit and pearl.
 


Next day the weather forecast was rain from about 11 o'clock but unfortunately it rained almost the whole day with some lighter drizzles in-between. We made sand castles and there were many surfers and body borders at the sea side.


We drove to the Gower beach from our campsite.


Martin and Olivia love body boarding and the rain didn't stop them in fact the waves were better they said.


Awwwww! Little Emily was so happy to see Daddy and big sister back.

 
Sunday almost whole day it rained. It rained the whole night and Monday morning was the same. So we enjoyed few cups of tea inside our caravan and the girls played some games.


By half past nine the rain stopped and we took the opportunity to walk up the hill.


Beautiful walk, I am glad we could still do it.



The view from the top was amazing. We do like it here in Wales.

 

 
We were camping somewhere down below, by the river where the arrow is pointing.
 

Wednesday, 26 August 2015

Masala Chai


I woke up too early this morning. Maybe still it was middle of the night, I don't know. Somehow I just couldn't sleep so came downstairs and made myself some masala chai, which I brought back from India.


Some quiet time was spend in my studio; looking back in my travel journal...


...and thinking about India: the rest of them still in bed.


The Tibetan monastery was so beautiful. The entrance with the prayer flags on top.


Watching the monks practising their daily meditation amongst the beautiful surrounding (Himachal Pradesh - Manali), flowers, almost everything was so relaxing and calm. Really peaceful place to be.


Beautifully painted and decorated gates, wall everywhere.



Inside the Buddhist temple. So calm, was good to just sit there for a while and do nothing.


The stories painted on the walls.



 
 And the bell.





It was monsoon when we were in India and up in the Himalayas, we got a combination of sunshine and rain. Felt pretty much like here. Though Delhi was still quite hot and humid.


I was so inspired by the whole trip from Delhi to Manali that for the first time I actually sat down to fill some pages of my journal. In past, every time I have been to India, I am just too busy chatting and going around. I think I must try and do at least one page if not more every time I visit India.


On this page, I felt like adding this beautiful paper, so I used some duct tape and extended my journal page.


The extended page on the left.


The map of India was the newspaper cutting showing the weather forecast.

Summer holidays are almost over. Can't stop thinking about India, especially on rainy days like today.