28th September - Littleworth Cottage> Bude> Clovelly> Chewton Mendip

28th September 2010 - Littleworth Cottage > Bude > Clovelly> Chewton Mendip

We awoke this morning to see thick fog out side our windows.  We had breakky and I packed my bag, dad and mum packed Luke and Toms bags (there so lazy!) Mum cleaned up the cottage and packed the car for our drive to Chewton Mendip.  We had a quick stop off at Bude, a big town on the seaside. It was raining so we didn’t stay for long.  We continued on to Clovelly, an ancient town on the coast where we had to park at the top of the town, go through an entrance and pay to walk down into the centre.  We walked down a really steep cobblestoned lane about 500m, trying not to slip as it was raining, down to the water.  The houses were tiny and there were 2 pubs, one at the top of the village and one at the bottom, with another tearoom and pottery shop and that was it.  In summer donkeys take you down into the centre and you can catch a lift in the landrover back up to the car park if you don’t want to walk up the steep cobblestoned lane. We had some lunch in the pub at the top and continued through the rain to Chewton Mendip.  We are staying at Pat and Dave Hellards House (Grandads cousins). Dad is looking forward to catching up with Smazz and we are looking forward to Pats big cooked dinner tonight when we arrive. 

Pat and Daves house was really cool.  A 5 bedroom farmhouse.  Luke and I are sharing a twin room upstairs, Tom has his own room opposite us and Mum and Dad are up the hall.  They used to run the house as a bed & Breakfast but they stopped doing it because it was a lot of work on top of their pool building business.  We took our bags upstairs and pat made us a nice cuppa.  They have a black labrador named Ruby, she is really friendly.  Tom loves her.

Pete (Pat and Daves son) came up from the yard and said hello.  The pheasant shooting season is starting soon and Pete was going up to a friends farm to put some food out for them so we went up in the Land Rover with him.  There were heaps of pheasants, as we walked through the heather they flew everywhere and scared us.  Pete said that he hadn’t seen so many for a long time so we were lucky.  He dropped us back to Pats and then returned with his son Sam for dinner.  Smaz, Michelle and Lizzie also came to dinner.  A beautiful big Roast Beef, yorkshire puddings, 5 vegetables.  Apple and Blueberry crumble, lemon tart, trifle.  Then cheese and biscuits, coffee, tea and chocolates. YUM!!

We all had a good chat, and Pete and Smaz had to leave to go and play skittles (like 10 pin bowling).  We will catch up with them later in the week.

Mum and Dad stayed downstairs and chatted until midnight, and we were tucked into our cosy beds.