Trying Something New
I haven't done a posting in this style before, so I thought it might be fun to give it a try:
Well, it's been a good week, though slightly different and less restful than I was hoping for. On Monday, after a frustrating day getting ready for a presentation for work (just one of those days where lots of little things kept going wrong), I did the presentation and then headed straight off to here to get on one of their trains to there. I was met by him, her, and Philippa, who had been down there since Friday, and taken to the place we were staying, which was the converted stables of a small farmhouse in the middle of here.
Apart from having to take part in a couple of conference calls following on from the presentation, I did manage to get a couple of relaxing days in, though not as much as I'd originally planned.
We did quite a bit of exploring. On Tuesday, we spent most of the day here, which is very nice, if a little twee in places. We took in a visit here while we were there, which is a stunning building, though smaller than I was expecting. In the evening, we watched a glorious sunset from here.
Wednesday was a horticultural day, split between here and here. I was expecting to be more interested in the latter, though it turned out to be the opposite way round. It's an amazing achievement, but I wasn't as bowled over as I was expecting to be. Exploring the former on a brilliantly sunny autumn morning, however, was really special, and highly recommended.
Thursday, apart from wasting half the day trying to get decent signal on my mobile so I could do that day's conference call, we mostly stayed fairly local. We walked across the causeway from here to here, which I'd never done before, and visited some local produce suppliers, including this place, which has a brilliant range of stuff, and is in the most amazing location, on a high clifftop, with a view along the clifs and coves, and across the huge bay to there. From there, we went for the one and only one of these I had all week, here (that site's got a holding page up at the moment, but you get the idea).
On Friday morning, after clearing out of the stable, we took a brief trip to here, via this, for a last-minute bit of exploration and to buy some of these, then we did a dash for the train back here.
And that was my few days off - we were really lucky with the weather - almost totally cloudless skies and warm sunshine are not my automatic expectation for the last week of September.