Near Caerphilly on Rudry Common - a small mountain!
On the way to the campsite on monday morning we took a slight detour and went across the Transporter Bridge in Newport. A Free ride!! A little bit wobbly as it is a gondola carrying up to 6 cars hung from the high structure.
When we arrived at our campsite in the Forest of Dean it was much windier than when we had previously set up the tent - which made it a little more challenging... also trying to be quite quick as rain was imminent. So after setting up we spent a while in the tent, had soup for tea in the tent - using the stove to heat the tent while cooking!! Then in the evening it all cleared up... and Sam was desperate to find a geocache.. so.. at 6:30pm we set off from the campsite knowing the cache was in the forest about a mile away. Good way to tire the children out? After a few challenges (Caitie needing the loo, Sam running down a slope and doing a superman type dive-skid resulting in a cut knee) we arrived and found the geocache nice and easily. There was a lovely purple plastic spider in the cache which Caitie took a fancy to and decided to take.. and then it was the long walk back to camp. Walk??? Well.. Paul and I walked... and the children mainly wanted to be carried as it was nearly 9pm. A bit of a work out for the adults - I think we were more tired than the children!!
Tuesday was wet... so the morning was spent at Perrygrove Railway - which is a very short steam railway (unlimited train rides) and an outdoor adventure trail and an indoor 'village' of interlinked minihouses with 'secret passages' - very 'Famous Five'! - and great for games of Hide and Seek.
In the afternoon we went to Clearwell caves which Sam and Caitlin found facinating.
and very tiring.... in the tea shop afterwards, Sam just fell asleep halfway through eating his Kitkat!
Wednesday the weather was much brighter... and big excitement, Granny and Grandad came to stay in our tent too!
We spent the day going the Symonds Yat, then hiring 2 canadian canoes for 2 hours to travel up the River Wye. The children thought this was wonderful! Granny and Grandad were then shown our tent and stayed overnight, helping us to pack up in the morning.
Then after a day at home looking after Isaac we came away for the final time this summer... to see the Hindess cousins.
Firstly staying with Mark and Tracy, Caleb and Reuben. We took a walk near Portchester Castle.
We are currently in Poole with Clare and Richard and Bethany.. and had a lovely afternoon on the beach and in the sea this afternoon... unfortunately the weather forecast is not too promising.
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