My Children's First ever Holiday

So this week we went on holiday for the first time.

Day 1

It is a staycation in the lovely county of Somerset. 

The journey there though did not go as planned!  It started from the moment we set off.  We had just got on the motorway when my husband said he forgot to pick up his cards! !! So back to the house we went. So for the second time we set off and all was going well. Then about an hour and a half in to our trip came the sound of my son saying 'I need a wee'. At the next services we stopped for a toilet break.  Then back on the road for the final hour and a half.

Over two and a half hours later after getting stuck in an hour plus of traffic jam going passed Stonehenge and loads of roadworks in the local town to our cottage and getting lost on the diversion. We finally arrived and went up a very steep gravel hill and promptly went skidding back down again. We found our cottage was up another lane in the farm. Which was good as there was no way our car was going to get up that hill, due to the amount of gravel.

We met the owner who showed us around and then sorted a bed out for my son so that my mum could have a proper bed and not need to use the sofa bed in the living room.

My children were amazed that the cottage was upside down.  The bedrooms down stairs and the living room and kitchen up stairs.  They were so very very excited that they were bouncing around like bunnies.

After a little while my husband and I went into the local village to the village store to get some things for breakfast. When we came back we went to the nearest sea side for fish and chips.

So after doing loads of driving to get to the cottage we went on more driving to the sea side. Using sat nav which took us down all these very very little roads, which annoyed my husband immensely. He hates sat nav's with a vengeance!

We finally got there, walked along the sea front and found a little fish & chip shop.  The fish was very nice, and for some reason always tastes nicer when at the sea side. After dinner walked back to the car on the sand, which the children loved. That night they slept almost as soon as their little heads touched the pillow.

Day 2

We went on the West Somerset Steam Railway.  The children loved it and were so very excited. The train was a black, Great Western Railway 2884 Class 2-8-0 3850 and it pulled us from Bishops Lydeard to Dunster where we got off the train and walked into the town. We saw the castle, but did not go in as the children were hungry so we went for lunch in a pub. The children's meals were bigger than ours. Which went down nicely with my daughter even if she didn't finish hers.

On the way back we were on the same train as we went on. But this time it was cuppled to the carriages the right way round.  The children slept most of the way back and even my mum and hubby did too.

Day 3

We went to Glastonbury Abbey. The children went round the museum with a clip board with a A4 sheet of paper with some photos of items in the museum for them to find. After we found all of them the children were given a badge. We then met one of the guides who was wearing period clothing. I took some photos of the children with the guide. 

The children saw some birds of prey at the Abbey and my daughters favourite was a falcon called Ruby, as Ruby is the same name as her best friend at school.

Day 4

Today we went to a cider distillery so I could pick up some local cider.  Well you must have the local produce while on holiday.  I particularly liked the cider with honey.

Then it was on to the beach at Minehead.  The children were a little disappointed that the sea was out such a long way but they did get their feet wet in some very deep wholes that had been filled with water from the out going tide.

On the way home we had to go cross country as there had been an accident on the main road.  So we turned around and using the dreaded sat nav we ended up going all these very steep roads. Ahhhhhh.

Day 5

Time to pack up and go home :( 

On the way back we first stopped at Nunney Castle which is in the middle of Nunney Village. The children loved walking around it but they had to be careful because it is surrounded by a moat.

Our Second stop off was Stonehenge where we had lunch sitting on the grass next to the site.