Summer 2007 short breaks

During the summer months I have quite a bit of work with the council, so we can not stray too far from home. However, we managed to go to Battle in Sussex for a week in June, which included my birthday, local strawberries and cream tea! It was also possibly the wettest week of the year! Many places round and about were flooded. Luckily we had chosen a hard-standing, but even so were surrounded by huge puddles everywhere.

We did get to spend a day wandering around Battle Abbey which was interesting.
Another day we went to Herstmonceaux Castle and had a look around. They have a Science Park there which is well worth a visit, especially if you have children.



We were like big kids ourselves trying out
all the hands-on experiments and even made
ourselves a laser paint-ball picture which we
were able to email back to home.








We also went to the Clipgate Music Festival again - at the beginning of August, 6 of us, in a folding camper, a Classic old VW dormobile and a posh caravan along with about 100 other Westerners and were blessed with a beautiful sunny weekend...at last. One of the ladies chatted to a pilot with small plane on the airstrip next door and ended up going for a flight in aid of charity (she had never flown before and was petrified!) We actually managed to have a barbecue and an outdoor jam session. All-in-all an excellent weekend.