This weekend, I planned and booked a bank holiday weekend
away to Devon with my housemate from New Zealand, who has never been
before. So naturally being in the UK on
a bank holiday it rained.
But we didn’t let that stop us. As you can see.
Now it was little more than a flying visit, as I only had
two days left of my bank holiday after a day at the beach on Friday and a day
in Cambridge Saturday (where incidentally Stephen Hawkins funeral was also
happening). But we still managed to
squeeze a fair bit in.
We were staying in a place called Compton in a beautiful home hosted by Jo and Jason, where Ollie was more than welcome with us and we
enjoyed a beautiful dinner with them on the first night after arriving back
from the beach a couple of drowned rats.
Paignton beach where we had been that day would be a
glorious place to be on a nice sunny day, however, Sunday was not that day and
we got absolutely soaked.
On the Monday things were looking up and the rain wasn’t due
to arrive until lunchtime. So we jumped
out of bed that morning and mad our way out to catch the steam train to
Dartmouth with the dog.
Ollie wasn’t too sure about it all at first, but he soon
settled down and we were soon on the ferry on the final part of the crossing.
While we were there we stopped for a late breakfast and
early lunch before finding some dairy free fudge and getting back on the ferry
before the rain arrived.
Luckily we managed to avoid the rain all day though and
arrived in Brixham to some beautiful weather, where our wonderful Airbnb hosts
have a stunning little shop along the front.
Flotsam 50 is Jo and Jason’s wonderful shop, where we
stopped for some tea and cake and obviously to shop!
Ollie has a rather mouldy and fake sheepskin at home which
marks where he is and isn’t allowed to lay outside of his dog bed, so as a
treat I bought him a lovely new and real sheepskin from Flotsam 50 along with
some wonderful smelling soaps. My
favourite is most definitely the one that smells like a bakewell tart!
After spending a little money in the shop, we made our way
to the Breakwater and the lighthouse at the end and Ollie loved looking over
the edge and jumping in the water with the other dogs.
It was then getting late and time to make the 4 hour journey
home before I was falling asleep at the wheel, but minus a few pit stops for
Ollie to stretch his legs, he did so well all weekend with everyone and
everything that was going on around him and we had a great weekend introducing
him to lots of new things!
