holiday near Tenby

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Back from our great holiday in lovely Tenby. There were 5 adults and 3 children in our caravan. For the first few days it mainly rained, but nothing daunted, we still went to the beach for a paddle. We fell in love with Tenby, I saw my first travellers joy (wild clematis) It was identified for me on GOY, and was amazed by the budding Epstein on the beach who had such delightful apprentices. I think the sandman looks like Bruce Forsyth, it was nice to see him. The gardeners caravan was the only one on site to be so elaborately decorated. We also saw some very impressive sunsets. Most days we would build sand castles and paddle, walk along the beach to Tenby have a lovely lunch there and mooch, then back along the beach paddling at the edge of the water.. lovely. The path is the one we took to the beach from the caravan park every day. The carousel is in the largest old fashioned indoor funfair in Europe orhttp://media.growsonyou.com/photos/blog_photo/image/15722/main/DSCF020
! something like that. It’s in a place called Folly Farm which is such great value for money and has a little theatre and Zoo amongst other attractions.

Oops I’ve got two Bruce Forsyths, how do I delete one? I’m not very good at this yet:-))

Now for the embarrassing bit:

We travelled there by National Express and I can’t praise the coach drivers highly enough they were brilliant. We boarded the coach at Birmingham and I sat next to a very nice lady from Glasgow who had lived in Wales for 25 years. She was visiting a new grandchild in the midlands. Although she had been away from glasgow so long, her accent was still very strong and I found myself nodding and smiling occassionally in what I hoped was the right place. As we approached a small town, I asked her where we were “Carmarnntenneeth” she said. I don’t know why I did it, but I fixed her with my beady eye and repeated what she said in what I thought was my best welsh accent. No she said and patiently repeated the word. Once again, looking her in the eye and confident I had picked up the slightly different pronounciation, I gave it my best shot. Carmarneenteneeth. nooooo she said giving me an exasperated look and she fished in her bag and brought out her coach timetable and pointed to the word Neath. OMG did she think I was making fun of her accent! Now you see why I’m neurotic Yes the nutter on the bus was me! Now whenever anyone mishears or mistakes a word, my grandchildren say “carmarninteneeth” and fall about laughing :-))

weird alien silhouette on rock

travellers joy, wild clematis

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!the weather had improved and the sun was shining, gorgeous:-)

So keen they even had little plastic greenhouses

road to the beach

first glimpse of the sea

14 Aug, 2009
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Bobg

Hi Ba great blog and you look as though you like Tenby very much, to delete a picture you have to click on 'edit blog entry' at the top of your blog then scroll down the text until you see the picture in text form it will start with !http and then just highlight and delete the text you don't want then click on publish tab at the bottom. But a little tip when you are writing your blog if you click on the tab 'save draft' it will allow you to look at the blog as it will appear on the site before you actually publish it.

15 Aug, 2009

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