We went for our family holiday
the first two weeks of August to our usual bolthole on the Suffolk coast at
Corton. It’s a lovely area and we spent the whole two weeks holiday there this
time, so we had lots of time for exploring.
The usual beach we go to at
Gorleston is lovely, uncrowded, sandy beach with a handy café nearby for
visiting when we need a loo break and a cup of hot coffee or an ice cream.
However this year we also ventured further down the coastline and found the
more touristy area of the beach. It was more crowded, but not too bad, and
again features a lovely sandy beach. There is the best ice cream shop ever
positioned on this section of the beach and we all enjoyed ice creams from
them! We also enjoyed fish & chips from the chip shop there twice over the
course of our fortnight holiday and both times was absolutely lovely. Along
with arcades, inflatables for kids, there is a toy boat lake, a paddling pool
and shops selling the usual beach bits & bobs in case you’ve forgotten
anything you need. We will definitely be returning.
We spent a day in Great Yarmouth.
Our main aim was to visit the Sea Life centre which we did, and that took us
about two hours to go round and enjoy. After that we walked to the beachfront
and the kids went on the inflatables and several other games. We enjoyed a trip
on the Great Yarmouth Big Wheel, and rounded off our day by going to the beach
and having a run about. Even though by that point in the day it was cool and overcast
we had a great day.
While we were there we celebrated
the birthdays of both boys and Daddy P. We ate lots of birthday cake!
Sunshineface turned 2 and most of his presents have been Peppa Pig based. His
speech came on in leaps and bounds while we were away, and amongst his new
words were “George” (his favourite character) “Suzy” (he got a Suzy Sheep toy)
and if you say “Dinosaur” he’ll say “Raar!” like George does. Picklepot was 7
and he got a lot of Minecraft presents, including the new Minecraft book. We
also got a ‘family’ laptop for us all to use, and installed Minecraft on that
so he has another way of playing if he wants to – and I can take the laptop
with us on holiday or when we go to stay with my parents so he can merrily play
Minecraft while we’re not at home. It probably seems indulgent to a lot of
people but with Picklepot it helps so much to keep him calm it’s invaluable to
us.
On the whole we had a wonderful
time on holiday but there was a lot of arguments about Picklepot’s behaviour
& attitude. He was very rude at times and throwing lots of strops, and more
than once Daddy P and I lost our tempers with him. I don’t know whether it’s
the fact that we were all together and he isn’t used to that, or what was
happening but it’s not been as bad since we got home. Perhaps it was just the
fact we were away from home that was making him act up.
We returned from holiday on the
Saturday and while I feel like I could do with a holiday to get over the
holiday it was lovely to spend some time with my family at the coast. I’m
looking forward to returning again soon. There’s something about the coast that
makes me feel so relaxed and content.
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