Road trip, over night camping and the North Atlantic Ocean Part 2

Adventure to Devon with Sam and his dad.

We all woke up at 8am to the rain beating down on the tent. Our plans were to add on an extra day but looking at the next days weather we decided to just leave late on the Thursday evening as we organised. The weather for Thursday was partly sunny but warm with rain. Our excited dropped a little as we were all hoping for a sunny day on the beach where we could go into the sea.

We altered our plans, over breakfast we had bacon, beans and a fried egg cooked by Tony on his little hob. We washed it down with a nice cuppa. I washed up all the breakfast stuff so we could pack it away and then we packed up the tent and car and headed for Teignmouth. We parked the car and walked down towards the sea front past a few church's which I took some lovely pictures.

Strangely on the sea fronts both the day before and today there were loads of dead jelly fish which I found really strange I had never seen a jelly fish yet now I see several dead on a beach it was actually sad. We carried on walking along the sea front and then down the pier. The pier has been there for years but when I lived in Teignmouth I spent a lot of time on it but it was full of games and felt big, now it was tiny and felt empty which was a real shame.

We then walked along the middle section in between the town and the beach, there was a little charity car boot where me and Sam bought Tony a plaque for his shed saying “Dad's Shed”. We carried on walking towards an adventure golf, it cost £4 per person. I sucked so bad at put put I didn't stand a chance a winning so I just had fun but Sam and Tony were fighting for the winning title ha-ha. It came down to the last hole Tony needed 1 and Sam to score 8 for Tony to win and Tony scored 2 and Sam scored 9 so they were on level points. We all had an Ice cream and headed towards the town to find a gift shop.

Me and Sam bought some rock for our family and a little gift for each other and I knew that Tony bought a little gift for Sam and his nan. We got back to the car and exchanged our gifts Sam got me a bracelet that said Rebecca and a keyring that said Becky, I got Sam a red mini as its his favourite car and I thought he would really like it but I think he was a bit underwhelmed by it. Tony gave Sam his gift and then handed me a box containing a shaker with a beach hut inside, I had no idea he had got me something and it was beautiful so I was chuffed.

We  headed into Dawlish we parked and walked along the stream where there are cages of baby ducks  which of course I took pictures of, We went into a little tea room called The Old Mill and had English tea with scones strawberry jam and Devon cream. It was yummy and filling. Once that had settled we went into the arcade and played on some gambling machines which is always a treat. By 4pm we were finished in the arcade and headed back to the car.

As we had sometime before going to the Smugglers Inn so we back to Shaldon to the zoo which we seen the day before it cost £7 and it was so good walking around and looking at all the different monkeys and birds and meerkats. The zoo was into the cliff and big and green it was beautiful I did take some pictures but they didn't come out that great. At roughly 5.45pm we headed to The Smugglers Inn which is in-between Teignmouth and Dawlish we took some traditional pictures (I have similar pictures from every time I visit) with the beautiful back ground.

We went inside to find out they were fully booked which made us all pissed. We spent the next 20 minutes driving toward Exeter looking for a nice place to eat. We ended up at the Beefeater in Exeter before the motorway home. It probably would have been better if we hadn't been expecting to eat somewhere else.

 We ate and then headed home with one stop for coffee in the middle. I got dropped off at home at roughly 10.30pm.

We were all so tired.

Becky xx