Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

Merlin's_Beard

Sounds like a lovely place to break up the drive!

KajiKita

Ticket booked online (after a bit of nonsensical to-ing and fro-ing with my MnS CC) and therefore a saving of 5% had! 😉

KK

Watty1

Love you went old school. I think we miss so much using google maps or similar.  I remember finding a place called King Alfreds Tower by just looking at a map and thinking it sounded fun so I stopped there. Your post reminded me that sort of lucky find never happens these days so I might just have to buy a map.

SandyShores

I don't know how we set off on holidays around europe with just an AA map and a book called something like charming hotels of europe.  Crossing over a page in the map could be interesting, depending on where you were.  Nowadays I don't go to the next town without the sat nav on.   

KajiKita

@Watty1, whenever I move to a new location I always buy an ordnance survey map of the area. It just gives me a feel of the topography, what local landmarks might be, so when people who live there talk about them I can get a sense of what they are on about. 😊 @SandyShores, I got fed up of using the satnav endlessly so tried to find one of the local beaches in my own … got a bit lost! 😉😂

Heading home today. As I mentioned I will be stopping off at Laugharne Castle on the way for a leg stretch but should be home by lunchtime. Looking forward to going home.

Lessons learned from this trip include:
- It’s worth paying more for better quality accommodation (Mr KK is always a bit tight and we end up in hell holes like the damp smelly one last time! 😂)
- Although this has been lovely, I probably won’t be back as I need self catering to allow for healthier eating options (food has been very limited round here - I’ve eaten sooo much cheese I need to detox! 😉😂) and not having to go out yet again for dinner in the evenings. I would bring precooked batches I could pair with wild rice or a baked potato. 

- This is quite remote - 3 miles of single track lanes after coming off the main road. It’s been beautifully quiet but it would be hard to cope with in wet weather. 

When I get home I’m going to take advantage of having had the change in perspective you always get when you go away and take photos of all the places ‘that offend my eye’ and use the rest of my holiday to at least make a start on clearing them down / tidy them up (the dining room table I know is a strong candidate!).

KK

KajiKita

Oh and as an aside, and feel free to skip if hearing about people’s dreams bores you … 😉

Had a restless night last night, stuck in the same mad dream. 

I was responsible, the lead if you like, for a big eco project on my land (big land!), Tim Smit / Eden project stylee! It was getting more and more complicated and stressful. I kept semi waking, rolling over and trying to think of something else and it kept starting up again! 

Very odd and 1000%, NOT what I would ever want in my life! 😂😂😂

KK

skint_spice

I think dreams are interesting, mine are sometimes related to something that has happened or a book or film that I have read or watched that day but other times they are just completely random! 

Watty1

I often think dreams are the mind doing a spot of filing.  A filing cabinet gets open, the files ruffled through and long forgotten projects are pulled out and examined just not looking quite the way your conscious mind put them in the file.

Fanciful I know but my dreams often involve odd things like the ex and his brother trying to get him to sign over a house that I had long before them, or tigers patrolling gardens I used to have, particularly the one in Putney.  Which is odd because the garden in Putney consisted of a metal projection to the fire-escape and was only big enough for a couple of pot plants so how the tiger got there.... well see, my mind has clearly been riffling through the files and got them all muddled (laughing here) 

debtfreewannabe321

Holiday sounds near to where my son was desperate to escape from when he lived there. I thought it was beautiful but he told me that's because I'm old. 😆
I once threw a sat nav out my window in a strop because it had taken me to another field in the middle of nowhere, about the third in a row and I was losing daylight. I did go back for it but then proceeded to throw it around a bit more and scream at it. Threw it in the boot and got out my big old AA map book and had to guesstimate as to where the sat nav had got me lost. I didn't use another sat nav for over ten years 😆 and it was only because people kept convincing me they were better now than they used to be lol. 

I have a dream dictionary, or two 😉 and used to love deciphering dreams for myself. You can internet search their meanings these days, sometimes I think it's intuitive thoughts coming to the surface and sometimes just subconscious making sense of the day to day stuff especially when we're feeling a bit overwhelmed or stressed. 

♥️☺️

beanielou

So glad that you are enjoying your break