We had planned to go to the Dartmouth Regatta on Saturday, but the weather wasn't looking good, but we asked ourselves did we want to go, and the answer was yes. So off we went, arriving just before lunchtime. On arrival it started to rain, so we headed to the craft tent on Coronation Park, and hearing the rain beat down...then we wondered if we made the right decision. It stopped and we wondered off outside, along the rows of stalls and through the fair, then we stopped for coffee and some lunch, followed by more mouching around, more coffee and fresh doughnuts followed, then went down to the Higher ferry and managed to find a bench to sit on and rest the weary bones. We had mentioned to our dear friends Wendy and Chris if they were going down from their home in nearby Kingsbridge, we had arranged to meet later in the evening for a drink and to watch the firework display, they tried to sneak up on us, whilst we sat watching the tennis tournaments - it didn't work, so then it was off for another wander around the regatta, have a drink and then find a good vantage point to watch the fireworks. Whilst walking around I took the following pictures of a very pretty sunset
Aren't they gorgeous?
The fireworks were fantastic, set to music as well, and they hit all the right notes with the big fireworks.
Then Chris and Wendy went to find their car, and we queued for the bus to take us up the hill to the park and ride car park. We realised that we had been there a long time, when our car was all alone in its part of the car park.
Today - we visited the Mother In law....and then did a little bit of shopping.
This afternoon Jill and I were going to check out a local hotel for the Liskeard Scrapbooking retreat, but a big wedding had closed the hotel to visitors, so even after talking to the staff, they said that they were already booked for both February and March next year. if anyone has any ideas of hotels with a room suitable for crafters - please let us know.
So no Afternoon tea for us today :-(
This evening when I was surfing the internet, I had a message from Facebook, that my friend Amy had put on some photos she had recently come across, which included some of Gary and I from the early 1980's, one of which I will share with you.....look at our hair LOL,
well thats my walk down memory lane for today.
Have a great bank Holiday Monday tommorow
3 comments:
Firstly, hahahaha!!
Gorgeous sunset pictures, so pleased you had a good day at Dartmouth.
Umm... still haven't thought of any other hotels will have to start doing a bit of 'surfing'!
Jill x
Whereabout do you need to hotel to be? The Livermead Cliff Hotel in Torquay has a lovely huge function room downstairs which would be lovely for scrapbooking in. Totally over the top as it's massive, but it's got good lighting and big floor to ceiling windows. I've no idea what the price would be though - we had or wedding reception there.
Those sunset pics are fab - sounds like the day turned out great - glad you enjoyed it.
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