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11th June 2022 Hiking - Walking: Sayers Croft, Surrey Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny and warm Max Speed: Distance Covered: Friday 10th June – travel plus a little walking – sunny. We were invited down to Surrey to visit the Grandson so for the first time in over two years we leave Felixstowe and actually have a couple of nights away in our little campervan. With a neighbour popping into feed our two cats and van packed we set off around 11 with the first stop Tesco in Ipswich to top up the diesel, £99 does not fill her up now:( Still we are traveling light and I didn’t go over 55 on the whole trip, much more relaxing and better for the fuel consumption! The journey went well with no hold ups eating lunch on the move and we still had money for the Dartford toll but it was still nice to get off the awful A 25 at Leatherhead and as we are early, we stop by the River Mole at Dorking, a favourite spot of ours at the foot of Box Hill:) We take our cuppa down to the river and over the stepping stones to enjoy the view chatting to several nice people, one lady was related to a Facebook friend from Felixstowe, small world! We then walk to the small bridge and watch a dog having fun in the river before continuing our journey to Sayers Croft, where my son lives and works in Ewhurst. We are in perfect time to walk the short distance to pick the Grandson Arlo up from school, he is first out and very excited to see us:) He goes to a lovely old village school and we enjoy the walk back over the park in warm sunshine. It’s then time for Arlo to have a belated birthday cake from us which he really enjoys as it involves digging for bones etc in crumble mix:) As they live at Sayers Croft an outdoor activity centre, we head out for Arlo to make the most of some of the activities! First the new low ropes course where you strap a 5 year old to a rope and he sets off high above the ground through a serious of obstacles with a long zip wire to finish, he loved it. He was on the zip wire ages as we whizz him back and forth all giggling! Its then onto the new 11m climbing wall and he shoots up within a couple of metres from the top like a mountain goat! Home for a curry with Mag reading the bedtime story, top day:) Saturday 11th June – walk ***** around the woods at Sayers Croft – sunny. Mag wakes early with a headache which sadly she has all day so decides to have a walk, the builders arrive to carry on putting the shingles on Robert’s roof when I get a knock on the door, its Arlo come over for breakfast just as Mag returns. We have a great time eating our Weetabix and strawberries having such a laugh, Hannah sets off for the day looking after kids doing their Duke of Edinburgh and Robert is also on call with groups in over the weekend including 40 dads with their daughters from private school camping for the night and the car park soon fills up to overflowing! We then go for a walk around the grounds of Sayers Croft which is set in some lovely old woods and wild pasture fields, just stunning with pond dipping, nature trails, stream etc with loads of wild flowers including orchids, butterflies and dragon flies:) We reach the wild pond with some top dragonflies and we have never seen so many newts popping to the surface! We carried on to the wonderful iron age round house which we helped thatch a few years ago! Rob let us in and we sat in there awhile surrounded by Roman shields etc. Arlo then makes us a pretend mal at the outdoor pizza oven before having ago on the boulder course, again in lovely warm sunshine! After lunch with Rob called away for work Mag, Arlo and I head over to the park with the new kite Mary bought him for his birthday and with a good breeze blowing we had a fantastic time flying the rainbow octopus high in the sky. We left Mag kite flying, she was having fun and I took Arlo to the swings with his Dad joining us too:) with buzzards overhead being seen off by the local crows! Back home Mag and Arlo pot up loads of sunflowers before I go for another short stroll feeding loads of orchids. Back home for delicious bangers and mash, one last walk to show Mag the flowers and it is my turn to read Arlo his bedtime story with Hannah not arriving home until 8! Absolutely knackered, looking after a 5 year old is exhausting we had to bed at 10, we are just dropping off when we are woken by loads of fireworks! It’s the posh Dads with more money than sense entertaining their daughters with a display! Sunday 12th June – Sayers Croft fun and travel home – sunny. A good second night in the van and Arlo joins us for breakfast in bed again before heading over to Robs, Hannah shows Mag her garden before heading off again. The local Facebook groups are full of people complaining about the fireworks which had scared assorts of livestock! I irresponsible Dad just let them off with no thought of the consequence without asking permission which would have been denied! As we were heading for home after lunch, we made the most of the morning, first we went to the dipping ponds where we meet some of Arlos mates who also live on site, Elliot and Zander. They catch assorts of pond life including a newt which Mag has on her hand plus several mating damsel flies and I got some cool pics too! It was then onto the highlight of the weekend, axe throwing where you throw six axes at a wooden target, such a laugh, Mag and I got the hang of it in the end! Then back for a sandwich and it was time to say our good byes, what a wonderful time we had had, loved every minute, Arlo is such a star and they are very lucky to live in such a great spot! We left at 2 ambling through the Surrey countryside, I even stopped to take some pics of a village cricket match. The journey went well until just before the Dartford tunnel where we were stationary for 40 minutes but it was quite relaxing, even had a hurricane fly over! We made it home around six with the cat pleased to see us! – Fantastic weekend:) |
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