With the family

Monday 18 June 2012  - On the Road to Instow

Day 66 and 93 to go

Another morning and another 9am start. We had a great fry up breakfast this morning while we watched TV. We then packed up a small case of our things and packed the car. We said our goodbyes to Chell and then were on our way at 10.30am.

We followed the major highways to head south-west.  There was a little traffic while we were on the M25 but it didn’t hinder our journey too much.

After a couple of hours we pulled into a highway café where we had HJ’s and then filled up with fuel and then we were back on the road for another couple of hours.

The views were beautiful and green. We then passed around Bristol and over a long bridge and continued on our way. The weather had remained fine and in places it was quite sunny, however we could see threatening clouds and as we came into Devon it began to rain.

At 3pm we were pulling into Sharon & John’s home in Instow. The weather had cleared up.  We sat and had a tea and caught up with Sharon for a bit and then decided to go for a walk along the beachfront. 

It was so lovely looking out over the bay and watching the dogs running on the beach. We ducked into the Wayfearer pub for a quick pint and then we continued along the front and past the cricket ground where they were playing a match. We followed the Tarka trail back along the back street and into the centre of town before following the beach back to Sharon’s for 5pm.

Shortly after John returned home from work and we again sat in the lounge chatting before having a delicious dinner. Paul arrived with his dog Timmy and we sat chatting for a bit. I then spoke to Aunty Ruth and organised to catch up with her tomorrow.

We retired again to the lounge and watched the Croatia v Spain game.

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