Uk adventures

Been there and done that, now back home again

We went on the 1st October, flew in to LGW, then took the train to Reading, spending the night with Rebecca and Antoni before heading off to Basingstoke on the train to tie up various legal matters at the solicitors.

Never been to Basingstoke town centre, but it was all pedestrianised with 2 shopping malls to go through, such a lot of walking, but we were successful with our efforts.

Next it was taking a 20 minute taxi ride to Chris´s niece to pick up the car, on to Old Basing to collect Mum as we were taking her to her caravan in Weymouth for a few days. As she is now in the care home it was the only way to spend some quality time with her.

It´s a huge site, this is the view from her elevated position

At least it wasn´t raining, although coming from 27/28C it did feel very cool

Her van is a 2 bed, 2 bath one, so it quite spacious and comfortable

We had a wander around Weymouth, visiting Mum´s favourite shop which sells very colourful clothing to crystals and incense sticks and everything in between.

Unfortunately Mum was feeling too well so couldn´t accompany us on the Friday, on the drive to Exeter as I was staying with Daniel, Shine and the girls for the weekend, so it was a quick turn round for Chris as he drove back to Weymouth.

It was so lovely to catch up with them and to enjoy spending time with the girls, playing and having fun.

Saturday saw us taking a rather long bus ride to visit Buckfast butterfly and otter sanctuary

The station and line has been renovated and restored with steam engines, offering trips out, although we didn´t have the time to do that.

But we did visit the museum, which was very interesting, 

Thomas the tank engine

Old coach ready for renovation

A rather nice model of the station

There were some beautiful butterflies, although most of them were off flying about and very difficult to photograph

You can see how hot and humid the house was, fogging the camera up

The Iguana was happy watching us, watching him

On to the otters, where we managed to catch the feeding time and watch their antics. One otter was 23 years old and he had lost his waterproof coat so he was quite content to just sit and catch his fish on the bank  and let his partner swim and dive to entertain us.

You had to be quick before they skittered away

It was a good day out with lots of new memories made and resurrecting old ones, as I remember taking my two to this place many years ago.

The weekend ended all too quickly and it seemed no time at all before
Chris was back to take us back to Reading.

Chris´s flight had been changed, which was a shame as he had to leave a day early

whilst I still had another week with Rebecca.

Well that´s probably enough now, so more for another post

take care

xcx