14 posts tagged “julie”
By the river is a little cafe, serving teas and snacks from a small window. Its popular, as you can see.
Meant to write about this earlier, on 4 October Julie and I did this fantastic walk from Dovedale in the peak district. About three-quarters of the way round is this lovely place to stop. We had our food and a little bottle of cava each.
How they eat those cockles is beyond me!
A clear beach, but not enough wind for kite flying.
At the car park, waiting for Gray to get the ticket.
We've come to the nearest beach today, the first time since the day we arrived. It very chilled. There's a gentle breeze and sea is very calm. When a ferry crosses the horizon, we get a minute of big waves 10 minutes later, it nearly washed our bags away the first time it happened this morning.
Julie is amazed how much her nails have grown in the sun and how healthy they look. I've taken a picture to show.
We had dinner last night at The View restaurant, a couple of hundred metres up the road. It does have a great view but I forgot to take any pictures. We ate good food based entirely on the waiter's recommendations.Julie had whitebait (bigger than we get at home and the same as the fish that jumped in the dive boat yesterday) followed by chicken a la creme. I had a baked aubergine, spicy cheese and peppers stuffed with cheese. Gorgeous. It was twice the price of the other local restaurants, mainly because we couldn't buy wine by the half-litre, so we had a bottle of white from the Greek Tsantali vineyard, which we visited when we went to Chalkidiki in 2001.
We had a last drink at Green Park but didn't stay long because of the fat boorish Brits mouthing off about football and other bollocks. However, I am pleased to report a general lack of Brits here, its mainly Greek, Italian and other mainland Europeans.
We are lounging on a bed at the beach bar, will drag ourselves off for some lunch in a mo.
A few minutes away we found the nearest beach. Its quite narrow and packed.
There's a trendy little bar playing excessively loud (but good) dance music. They've got beds and neat little chairs on decking, all under the type of canopy you'd use to try and hide a tank from aircraft.
We had a beer and took in the scene. We laughed as an older couple struggled to rub sun lotion into their objecting single child. What made it so funny was that the apple of their eye was a teenager with a 'tash!
It is Friday morning. We've stayed at the hotel at the NEC, the name of which annoyingly escapes me as I write this. We set our alarm for 0315, hideously early after the last few manic days at work.
The taxi to the airport took only minutes. We did the obligatory early morning beer, but my stomach's not fully over the bug that I had during the week and it doesn't go down well. Not sure uhf dodgy veggie sausages in the Weatherspoons breakfast helped either. Anyway, its a Friday not at work, which is never a bad thing.
Just got this picture from Julie by multimedia message of some shoes that she bought today. Foxy.
Last Christmas, for a combined Christmas and birthday present, one of Julie's friends rented her a cherry tree for a year from Rent A Cherry Tree. Today, we went to visit it.
The farm is just over the Kent border, in East Sussex. A very beautiful part of England. Have a look at this aerial view, you can see the rows of trees.
We found Julie's tree and sat on the grass in between the rows and soaked up the sun and the smells and sounds. The clouds in the sky looked fabulous and it was a great few hours. I've tagged all the photographs as cherry tree, but here are a few:
