Whitstable: 1st June, 2021

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So good to be back on the beach. Swimming in the sea, blue skies, wet clothes and sandy hair.

Wales: 19th August, 2020

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We managed to grab a last minute cancellation cabin for two nights at One Cat Farm in Wales as everything else in the UK seemed to be booked up due to COVID and international travel not an option. It was quite a drive from Whitstable and we drove straight to the beach where both our kids stripped off and ran into the sea. It wasn’t exactly hot either, and it was raining. I think they needed these mini-break as much as we did.

Whitstable: 8th August 2020

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Hot, overcast, late afternoon high tides are the best. Looking good in their matching cossies, too : )

Aldeburgh, Suffolk

Aldeburgh is a wonderful little town on the Suffolk coast that’s great to visit with kids or otherwise. Beautiful forests, long pebbly beaches, pubs, restaurants, fish and chips, fresh fish – what more do you need?

Whilst in Aldeburgh we stayed in a little Victorian terrace on the high street, called Trinity Cottage, which was been very tastefully renovated and is the perfect spot to snuggle down over the colder times of the year.

Climate Strike, Whitstable

I was asked if wouldn’t mind recording as much as possible from the recent climate strike in Whitstable, which of course I said yes to. Somehow it feels extreme that our own children are, more and more, at the front of these protests and making themselves heard, but this really is their generation at stake.

 

Torre de la Horadada, Spain

We were fortunate enough to miss the terrible weather that Torre de la Horadada had this summer, resulting in some awful flooding. We had a brief spell of torrential rain whilst on holiday there and the water has nowhere to go because they’re just not set up for rain.

Anyway, here are some sunny pics to remind us all of summer.

Sam

 

Bornholm, Denmark

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Bornholm is beautiful island off the south coast of Sweden where we stayed in an incredible 1970s A-frame timber house nestled in a pine forest close to the beach.

 

Elmley National Nature Reserve, Isle of Sheppey

Elmley is a national nature reserve which has a working farm on it, Kingshill Farm, and there are various options of accommodation to choose from, most of which are shepherds huts, which we stayed in.

It’s quite an incredible place to visit and stay at as you really are in the middle of nowhere. You drive along a dirt track for a mile or so, away from traffic and man made structures, and it’s this transition into nature that really is something special.

A highly recommended stay. Check out the website here.

Sam