Day: May 29, 2007

Peeeectures!

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Katy bullied me into taking two days off last week so we went on a pair of day trips, one to Cadbury World and another to Hunstanton seaside.

Cadbury world was a childhood fantasy for Katy and was actually more fun than I thought it would be – once we managed to lose the 5 busload of hyped-up ADHD kids. We came back with a bit more than a kilo of chocolate and a stuffed parrot for Katy. I almost bought a 5kg bar of dairy milk, but I couldn't justify it. It would have gone bad before we'd have been able to eat it all without getting sick. Figure that one square of the bar is the equivalent of 3 normal dairy milk bars…

Our second trip was to the seaside, via Norfolk Lavender, a huuuuuge lavender farm. Hunstanton isn't the nicest of seasides. It looks a bit old. It probably didn't help that it wasn't completely open when we got there, but the bits that were were less than impressive. Southwold is nicer for a non-commercial seaside and Yarmouth is nicer for a commercial one. Still, we saw otters being fed and the beach itself was nice. The sea was completely calm and the sky was the same colour as the water, so both were indistinguisheable from each other.

The cliffs were also very cool. Apparently, they're a great source for fossils. As we were walking along the beach, we came across a rather unusual sight. An old dude was working at the base of the cliffs, apparently sorting out the fallen rocks into colour-coded piles. We didn't ask why; we figured he was probably bored and it took him out of the house.

The tide as out and had left tons of boulders covered in seaweed. Very funky indeed. The day itself was a bit overcast, but the sun was trying to shine through. I still managed to get a bit of a sunburn on my arms.

It was nice to spend some quiet time with the girl though :)

More pictures online at:

http://www.flubu.com/various_pics/hunstanton_may_2007/
http://www.flubu.com/various_pics/cadbury_world_may_2007/

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Ahhh, the joys of packaged holidays :)

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Coach driver set fire to Germans' towels for 'bagging' all the sunbeds. Glyn Bowden twice took the towels away and left them on the side of the pool – but on the third day set fire to them.

A coach driver became so fed up with German tourists bagging every sunbed that he set fire to all their towels. Glyn Bowden, 55, was locked up by police in Italy after his early morning raid.

Mr Bowden was coach driver for a party of 55 British holidaymakers at Viana Marina near San Remo on the Italian Riviera. He told yesterday how the German tourists put their towels on the best sunbeds on the private beach and by a nearby pool. He twice took the towels away and left them on the side of the pool – but on the third day set fire to them.

Mr Bowden spent two hours in the cells at a local police station before hotel bosses persuaded officers to release him without charge. The first time the group from South Wales complained to him, he said “Leave it to me” and dumped all of the towels at the end of the pool. Mr Bowden said: “The following morning the Germans put them down even earlier so I did the same – with them shaking their fists at me from their windows.

“The next morning about 20 towels were there again so I collected them up, put them on a pile on the beach – and lit them. All the British tourists were cheering. But just a few minutes afterwards three police officers turned up and arrested me. “They were going to charge me with criminal damage but the hotel – which owned the towels -intervened on my behalf.”

Mr Bowden, from Tonyrefail, near Rhondda, added: “The Germans thought they owned the private beach but I wanted to make sure my tourists got a crack of the whip.” His extreme action seemed to have worked – the Germans' towels did not reappear for the rest of the holiday.

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