These don’t happen very often but to have a bank holiday weekend in Essex (UK) which is sunny, warm and not raining is really rare. I think this is what is used to be like when I was younger. I spent my weekend on Mersea Island - a small island in Essex which is reached by a causeway which floods at high tide. We are always forgetting this until we get within 2 mins drive of the island but only once or twice have we had wait for the tide to turn. Thankfully there is a pub just by the causeway which is rather handy. It’s great to spend a few days on the coast - Mersea doesn’t have miles and miles of beach but what is there is nice. I even managed to go for a run on the beach yesterday (lucky there is lots of wet sand to run on otherwise it could of been hardwork). My in-laws have a caravan on the island and that is where we stay when we go down there. Here is a picture of West Mersea.
On the Saturday we went to Dedham which is just outside of Essex, in Suffolk for a walk to Flatford Mill (Constable country). Flatford Mill is a beautiful place, you can see why Constable painted so much around that area. We had a nice lunch there followed by ice-cream while watching lots of families trying their hand at rowing on the river. Saturday night was spent at the clubhouse on the caravan site - the average age was 55-60 with the exception of me and Husband, one girl of about 25 and the young polish couple who work on the site. As you can probably tell it was a barrel of laughs but the drinks are cheap! On Sunday we went crabbing on the west side of the island with our nieces along with 50 other kids and adults who had the same idea. Met up with good friends who have a parent who lives on the island, it was really nice to catch up with them. After catching over 30 crabs (I stood and watched, playing around with a dead fish head was not my idea of fun) we all went to a local bar and had beer and ice-cream (the ice-cream was for the kids!). A bar-b-que in the afternoon rounded off the weekend for us as we drove home late afternoon. A picture of Flatford Mill below.
Today is a lovely day here but I’m indoors studying for my OU course. I’m really enjoying it and whizzing through the coursework. Only an hour or so to go on that and then I think a nice cold beer will be fully deserved!
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