Off to See Prilla's old school friend

On Saturday we went up to London to see the famed but slightly disappointing BlueWater shopping centre, followed by a visit to see Jenny who used to go to St Georges school in Brunei with Priscilla.



We had a lovely home cooked lamb curry for dinner washed down with some chilled beers.  We also found out that Jenny used to be a Taekwondo coach and she had loads of spare training pads for us.  Unfortunatley Jenny is planning to work abroad soon and so this might be the last time they catch up for many years.

October in Cornwall

Last wee we headed down to Cornwall for some boogie boarding and general relaxation.  We hired a 6 sleeper cottage in Harlyn bay (near Padstow) and were really lucky to have Sarah and Tom join us at the beginning of the week and Alan and Kas at the end.  

Priscilla and I went down on our bikes while Sarah brought the boards ands wetsuits in her car.  Alan and Kas were kind enough to bring the boards and suits back at the end of the week.

Here is a picture of Priscilla, getting ready to leave.



On the way down we stopped off at Charmouth, just east of Lyme Regis and then "The Jamaica Inn" famous as the location of the novel with same name.

We were very lucky with the timing as we had lovely weather for all but one day and the beaches were deserted.  Here are a couple of pictures of us having fun.

Breakfast at Lee-on-Solent

Saturday started out with a trip on the bikes to the Penguin Cafe in Lee-on-Solent.  This was the first real trip anywhere for Priscilla on her new bike and so we were all very excited for her.  We had a lovely ride up followed by a hearty breakfast.  After stoking up, we packed the car ready for a black belt Taekwondo seminar in Weston-Super-Mare (Yes, two towns with hyphens in just one day).



We had a great day training with other black belts from the associated and we finished the day off with a nice Chinese meal near the sea front.  For those of you that have not visiting, don't worry, you are not missing anything, Weston-Super-Mare is somewhat less super than the name implies.