Beanie Mouse: English Channel

Friday, 12 July 2019

Portland day one

Today, Andrea didn't have to go to work and said we had to finish packing!!

We're going on another trip! Hurrah!!

We had to go past Tesco and our friend Cat was there so we stopped to say hallo!

And then we arrived at Hove train station! We don't often come here.....

We saw a poster at the train station.....

We want to go see this!

There's some pretty buildings round here.......

We didn't have to wait long before our train arrived - and we got a window seat too!

Oh wow.....

We had to get off at Southampton and saw these amazing wall tiles!!

Aren't they fab!!!

Then we had to get another train.....

we gave them a floppy disc!

Wonder where we're going....

...it's a long way.......

We got off at the very last stop which was Weymouth!! Arnty Bev was waiting for us!!!

And took us back to her house!!

We're in Portland!!

We had a quick cuppa and gave Arnty Bev her birthday presents and cards!

Then we went on a drive somewhere........

We're at that lighthouse!!!

We're going here for tea and scones!!!!

YUMMY!!!!!

After we'd licked the plates clean, we decided to go for a little walk along the seafront.

It's very pretty here

Then we went and had a look at Chesil beach!

Quite a view, huh?!

Then it was off back home again!

Just in time for dinner! Love basgetti!!

After watching a bit of telly we decided to go to bed because we were pooped!!

Saturday, 30 March 2019

Lunch in Eastbourne!

Today, Andrea said we were going out.

So it was up to the bus stop to get into town....

We gave them a CD!

We got off here and had to wait for another bus....

.....and since we had some time to spare, we had a nose round a fabric shop we'd never been in!! They've got some lovely stuff in there but it's expensive - we saw some lovely batik fabrics but they cost £12.99 a metre!!

Then our bus came and we were off!!! There's that lovely art nouveau building!

That's a place for blind military people...

it's a huge building!!

And there's Saltdean Lido!!! That's really pretty too!!!

OoOo we're going through Newhaven now!!! there's lots of boats over there!

This is Cuckmere Haven! Well the Haven bit is the other side of the road, but this is the other less famous bit!!

We're in Eastbourne!!! That's the train station over there!

We left a floppy disc on the hand rail...

.....just before we arrived at Eastbourne Pier!!! It's quite fuggy over the Channel today....

And we were met by Diane and her brand new Bear! He's so new we don't know his name yet!!!

Outside the Pier, we found another Bear having an icecream so we said hello!

Then we walked along the seafront to Harry Ramsden's because we were STARVING!!!

Now..... what shall we have??

First of all we got the refreshments!!!

SCHLURP!!!

For lunch we had plaice and chips for a tenner!!!

It was NOMMY!!!

After our nomtastic lunch, we had a wander the other way along the seafront back the way we came and we left a bookcrossing book here.

And then decided to go on the Pier!

We found some arcade games so we thought we'd have a go! This one isn't the usual shuffle board game and was a bit weird....

BUT WE WON A PRIZE!!!!! HURRAY!!!!

Then we went to help Diane because she hadn't won anything yet.

We ended up winning TWO PRIZES EACH!

It was BRILLIANT!!!

We haven't done that for ages, it was so much fun!

then we had another walk along the seafront and we left a CD on the rail!

By now it was nearly three o'clock so we decided it was probably best to get the bus. When we got to the bus stop there was a HUGE ENORMOUS queue of people, some of whom had been waiting over an hour for the number 12X bus!!! There's supposed to be one every 20 minutes!!!

Luckily one turned up 15 minutes later and we all got on! I waved goodbye to Diane and Bear!