Pentewan Sands and Football Golf

Wurtlefkey - we had the whole field to ourselves
This was the view from the top of the hill!!!

This weekend as we had an extra day we decided to venture a little further south and visit a new campsite - Pentewan Sands.  What a great location.. it had on site an American style burger bar that had really good vegetarian options, two pools, a pub, chip shop and if that wasn't enough it has its own beautiful sandy private beach!  That all being said, I'm glad we went in October as the pitches themselves are pretty small so although we had a whole field to ourselves, I can imagine in the summer months this place is rammed and you are packed in like sardines!

 

On our way back down the hill

So we rocked up on Saturday, pitched up and settled in.  We discovered a a great American style burger bar onsite and noticed they had some surprisingly good vegetarian options, so it would have been rude not to stop.  One halloumi burger, 2 giant onion rings, cheesey fries and huge malted milk shake later, we left feeling quite guilty about all the calories we had just shoved down our necks, so went for a walk to explore the area and ended up walking up what I think it the steepest hill I have ever walked up - that was enough to make me eat healthily for the rest of our trip!!!

We woke up on Sunday morning to absolutely glorious sunshine, seriously for the beginning of November, the weather was amazing.  We had found a place online that does "football golf" so we took off and went in to St Austell to play a round of football golf.....




In total it took about 4 hours and it is literally as it sounds.  Instead of a ball and club, you get a football.  You have to kick the ball up the fairway, invariably there is some kind of obstacle to go over/under/around and then you kick it in to the hole which definitely sounds a whole lot easier than it actually is.

I thought for sure I would at least stand a fighting chance of winning, but sadly not so - I was worse at this than anything!  BUT I did have a moment of glory when I putted the football from about a mile away... I had embraced the technique of going down the green in a zig zag fashion, that way my ball was always in the rough and not running down the slope of some monstrous hill with me running along trying to catch it - I kicked the ball in another sideways direction and somehow it amazingly hit the slope in the right spot on the fairway and rolled all the way down the hill in to the hole....nobody was more amazed than me and so I deployed another of my celebratory dances .......

 ..... before going on to lose my second game of the day!


But it was an absolutely awesome day, lots of fun and always good to try something new.  We headed back to the campsite and settled in for the night to nurse some aching legs (and a sore toe from kicking the ball)

A little coloring was the perfect end to the day, so while Wolf played some poker, I got my coloring books out and finished the two designs I had been working on. 

 


It was so nice to tag an extra day on to our weekend, gave us the opportunity to travel a little farther afield and it gave us the time to relax and unwind in a beautiful location.  We will definitely go back to visit Pentewan Sands again next year.




Pride comes before a fall......

Oh how true that is! 

 

We returned to Woolacombe this weekend for the Golf Challenge... Wolf played absolutely out of his skin, potting the ball off of a chip, potting the longest of putts, he had an amazing game... which means as pleased as I was for him......I lost!  To coin one of my favourite Wolf phrases, I "couldn't have hit a barn door with a shovel" on Saturday I was that bad!  And I couldn't leave it at that..  Sunday morning we got up early and pitched up at the parking lot by the beach, after breakfast at "The Captains Table" I thought I would fare better with crazy golf, so we headed over to the Pirate Adventureland..... I was wrong!  Still the words "barn door" and "Shovel" come to mind!

 

 

 

 

A slight glimmer of hope shone through when Wolf agreed to a rematch of the golf challenge........ I did play a much better game and actually managed to hit the ball, but still to no avail ...  So the outcome of the weekend was....  Wolf 3... Turtle 0 

One of the things I love about spending the weekends away in Wurtlefkey is that it allows us some downtime to read, play games, watch movies or as I have recently invested in the latest trend of adult coloring books, coloring.  Its a hobby that satisfies my creative streak without being too taxing on the brain, I can sit for hours on end coloring it is therapeutic and relaxing, so I am super happy that every book shop you go in to there is a plethora of coloring books, markers and pencils to choose from.

This is my creation from the weekend, not entirely finished, but over half way done.  This was a book I bought a while ago (oddly enough in Sainsburys), its a 60's Flower Power book, I was previously using pencils but this design needed more bold color so I invested in some new markers which I think gave the desired effect, although did limit my color choices.

Sadly the weather is turning now (Sunday morning was cold enough to get our woolly hats out) and the sites in Woolacombe all close at the end of October, so this was our last visit to Woolacombe this year. 

 

We have always had such a great time here, and can't wait to return when they re-open in March 2016. 

 

FAREWELL WOOLACOMBE...

......until next time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



And finally....Victory is MINE!!!!!

Another weekend in sunny Woolacombe. We have recently been so lucky with the weather, after a dismal week we go prepared with enough movies to watch should the weather give us cause to stay inside all weekend, but we have yet to watch any movies as the weather has been glorious.  Damage Barton is the campsite we have returned to most weekends for the last couple of months, it almost feels like a second home.  I can't speak highly enough of this place, the people are friendly, its a quiet campsite with a very relaxed, chilled out atmosphere.  There is a great little shop on site, and they even bake fresh pasties to order.  The views are amazing, you are at the top of a hill so get a great view of the ocean.  It is also a working farm so is surrounded by countryside full of livestock. 
 
This last week they must have moved the cows around as we were awoken to the dulcet tones of a rather large cow, complete with equally large horns, "moo'ing" at the top of its lungs.  I did at one point think it was outside the motorhome, so had to climb out of bed to check, but we were just VERY close to the field next door.

We took our usual Saturday morning walk down to Woolacombe via Mortehoe (we call it Moordor) its probably about 3 miles and is down some pretty steep hills, but its a beautiful walk through the country and then down along the coastal road all the way to the beach.  Of course no visit to Woolacombe is complete without the "Golf Challenge"..... not much to say about it really....Wolf had an outstanding game and won again so the chore of making cups of tea all day and cooking dinner in the evening fell on my shoulders.

Sunday we decided to do something a little different, it was a lovely day and so instead of packing up and going home, we decided to pack up early and head to the beach, if you get there early you can get a spot big enough for a motorhome and then use that as your base for the day - what a great day we had!  Having gotten up so early and down to an empty parking lot we were able to have our pick of spaces, so we parked up and then went to the Captains Table (my favourite restaurant there) for a full Veggie Breakfast, after our fill of breakfast we then headed over for an additional "Golf Challenge"  and I have a LOT more to say about that!!! FINALLY..... VICTORY IS MINE!!!!!  I WON!!!!!!

OH THE JOY!!!!!! For weeks I have persevered with this challenge blindly hoping that one day, whether it be sheer determination, a stroke of luck or any other freak event, I would win!  How I LOVED having that first cup of tea when we got back to the motorhome, and every other cup of tea after that.  Victory is indeed sweet!!!!!  As was the victory dance I did "football style" running around the golf course with my shirt over my head.

The rest of the day was spent in a giddy euphoric state (I know its only golf, but this was a long time coming)... after all that excitement so early in the morning we headed back to Wurtlefkey to take a mid-morning nap, and then took a 6 mile walk along the beach to Putsborough and back - it was the perfect end to a fantastic weekend.