Travelling

We packed up the car and set off at 7:40 on Saturday morning. We expected the journey to be unpleasant, it's a long way to drive with three small children. They were tired and restless by the time we were nearing the end of the A303.

Then we got stuck in a long jam. It took about an hour to get through it, we limped along and made a brief stop at Newcott Chef for coffee and toilet breaks. The holdup was caused by a broken down coach, it was blocking the other other lane. At this point on the road it's a single carriage each way rolling through pretty hills and woodland. Very scenic but nowhere to drag the coach offroad.

We stopped at my wife's aunt and uncle's cottage in Otterton for tea before pushing onto the holiday camp, Perran Sands.

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My wife's uncle is a lecturer at a nearby agricultural college, practical dairy farming and the like. He's fairly new to teaching but enjoying it, not least because the hours are easier than actual farming. At the moment they're renting a cottage but hope to move into one of the houses on the college grounds soon.

The weather was a little rainy but still warm and the forecast promised it would be quite dry for the rest of the week. We got to the camp site after roughly 7.5 hours on the road. Tired but glad to be there and looking forward to the holiday on the beach.