Games with cousins

Family means a great deal to us, so getting to know cousins is pretty exciting.

We have spent a wonderful few days with Pierpoint cousins who live in Plymouth. We intend on visiting others up north later in April and are pretty excited about coming back to Plymouth to experience the seaside and outdoor pursuits in June.

Morgan and Lilly have really loved hanging with Tom - who though is 20 - has been so cool and very patient with them. Morgan has idolised him..and Miss Lilly has terrorised the poor lad!! She woke him this morning with cold water on his feet.. I think retribution tomorrow may be swift..

They've played a few different games.. Kerplunk .. And some card games..

Family Dinner in Plymouth

Wow.. I feel so blessed to reconnect with this side of our family again.  Its a bit convoluted..but take it as read .. that these are cousins on the Pierpoint side ( my mums) whom we have kept in contact with via Christmas cards for years and years.

We were really touched to have had a family dinner with all of the Wembury crew while we were here. Families - no matter how far removed have a special bond and it just felt so nice to be welcomed into arms and home and feel.. at home.  

Christine is so like my mum - it was hard to say goodbye when we did.. though its never goodbye.. its see ya.

We are trippilly delighted to be invited to Tamsins Wedding.. wooooooo hoooooo - in June.. I think I may be a bit more excited than she is.. ha ha!!

Dewestone on Dartmoor - 2nd training walk

Cousin Tamsin and her fiancée, Jamie, took us to a hidden gem of a walk - The Dewestone - which hugs the outskirts of Dartmoor.

Imagine a place so green, thick with soft moss and rushing streams, and one you are certain you are about to bump into a unicorn or fairy at any moment.

Simply breathtaking.  I am sure Tamsin got quite sick of waiting for me as I took yet ANOTHER photo.

The Dewestone traack takes you over the streams and then winds up round mossy rocks to the top of a gorge. Did I mention it was beautiful?  It is hard to imagine that this area had been a quarry in the early 1900s and a large producer of limestone.  There are still the footings of these buildings, slowly being covered with moss and ivy, at the bottom of the gorge.

It was the first uphill training walk for our upcoming Camino trek in April/May. I am pretty nervous about the first day - its the longest and the hardest - straight up the Pyrenees. But I guess ther is only one way to tackle it huh?

Keep on training - a little... every day.