Adventure to Devon with Sam and his dad.
Me, Sam and Tony were
planning a day trip to a beach, which turned into an over night
stay....thanks to my new tent hehe. We planned to go very early on
the Wednesday morning but of course something cropped up and I had to
go to a meeting (which is a secret). We left Birmingham city centre
at 11.40am and headed on the M42, M5 to Exeter.
We Stopped of a
Sedgemoor service station on the way and had a little baguette lunch in the car
which I bought while I was in Town (Birmingham City Centre) a
baguette (Sam's and mine were southern fried chicken and Tony's was ploughmans), packet of crisps (quavers) and a can of pop only cost £1.75 so I
thought it would be a good idea to save some money. We carried on the
motor way for roughly another hour.
We finished on the
motor way and went down some steep country lanes which was fun and
scary at the same time as the drop was huge. We got to Star-cross train station and I knew
we were almost there. We drove past the Ladysmile camp site where me, my Mum
and Dad had a caravan when I was about 12 years old. Just around the
corner was our camp-site Leadstone.
We pulled up and paid
it was £33 for 3 adults and a car for 1 night. The man showed us to
our pitch, he seemed really nice, we put the tent up in 40 minutes which isn't to bad for a 6 man tent, had a rest then headed
off to Dawlish Warren to have a look around. We walked past a field
where car-boots are held every Wednesday but as it was roughly 4.30pm
it was closing but I remembered it from when I was younger and used
to go there on holiday.
We got to The Mount
pleasant Inn and had a little drink, me and Sam had a Pepsi and Tony
had a pint of Bitter. I knew the views were beautiful but Sam and
Tony didn't so the look on their faces was nice to see. We then had a
little stroll down closer to the Warren beach, Tony wanted some fish
and chips from a little chippy but I was sure there was one closer to
the beach that was really good but I was unsure if it was still there, yep he bought some chips, oven chips
and they were horrible because there isn't an actual chippy there, I am sorry Tony ooppps me and Sam had a hot
dog (a wasp flew into Sam's on the last bite) then we carried on exploring the Warren. We had a little look in
the shop and then walked along the sea front towards the red rock.
We went onto the beach
I took some pictures and Sam and Tony were skimming stones. We
decided to walk into Dawlish along the sea front. Unfortunately
because the storm last year wrecked some of the sea front we had to
go back up to the road and walk the rest of the way along the street.
We got into Dawlish and went to the loo and shop then headed to the
bus stop to catch the bus back as the walk is a smidge long.
Once back at the
camp-site we had a little rest and cup of tea, got dressed and then
drove to Shaldon as we were having our evening meal at The Ness,
which is where I remember going with my Nan when I lived in
Teignmouth. The views, service and food was amazing. I will write a
blog dedicated to it at a later date.
I took far to many
photos of everything and then we headed back to the camp-site at
10.30pm and then literally went to sleep. It was not the best sleep I
have ever had, I got squidged by Sam and a head ache and I was
freezing haha but day 1 was amazing BRING ON day 2!!!!
Have you ever visited
here?? What do you think??
Becky xx
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