A day of date's/ Weymouth

Thursday: birthday-lunch invitation-Shakespeare

The Thursday started with a birthday breakfast at the farm shop where we often meet for lunch. We had been invited for Mary's Birthday Brunch. She celebrated her birthday one day earlier because she had other plans for the next day. We arrived at 9:30 and met a lot of friends, for example Pam and Paul, Margret, Inet,Doris, etc. Everybody was chatting with each other and we hadn't seen them all for over a week so it was nice to hear all the news. We stayed there for 3 1/2 hours. After that I went home and J. went to the garage(because somebody had broken her rear-view mirror) and afterwards to the dentist. She had forgotten that we were invited for lunch at Bethan's so I got a call and she explained me the way to Bethan. She had invited her German friend Moni who is married to an English husband and she lives in England now. She was waiting for me with her daugther and we talked for a while and afterwards had lunch with Bethan and her son Hugh,who just graduated from Oxford. J. arrived as well and we had a lovely time together. After some hours together we drove home and I had to pack my bag for one week in Weymouth. I really dislike packing my bag but I had not got too much time because we had to leave home at 4 o'clock to meet Lynn and Chris. We met them in Stamford for a meal in ASK.Italian. J. bought tickets for the outdoor theatre in Tolethrope for Romeo and Juliet. 

 the stage by daylight

Chris worked nearly his whole life as a solicitor so he was very interested in talking to us. They talked about how they spend their life after both retired and Chris is working as a vicar now. They talked about their daugther and the upcoming wedding next week. It was really intersting because he and his daugther both stayed some time in Germany. We drank wine and enjoyed our Italian food and had an original Italian ice-cream afterwards (so good!).

It was just fun spending the evening together. Because after our meal we drove to Tolethrope and saw a stunning theatre show.

The whole stage was situated in the woods that means that it was surrounded by trees. Birds flew around and you could sometimes see butterflies or other animals. 

 The stage in the evening

It was something special because the actors seemed to be young but really good. They had changed some things for example Juliet's family was a Gypsie-family and Romeo's father was a monk in the play. They also worked with a lot of special effects, like when Romeo died there came  a cross out of the ground. 

We drove home (1 hour) and went late but happy to bed.

Friday- travelling and camping again

On Friday we left home at 10 o'clock because we travelled towards London again. We visited Barbara (J.'s husband's cousin) and J. and she drove to the hospital to see Gwenn. I stayed at Barbara's because I could read my book there and watch TV. I finished my book (Asking Alaska by John Green) and waited for them. From there we drove to Marlow to visit Monica (J's sister). She lives there with her husband Jeremy and she had prepared a lovely dinner for the four of us. We stayed over night and drove on Saturday 4 hours to Weymouth.

The traffic was appalling and all the main streets so crowded. Everybody seemed to be driving South. But after we arrived we were happy because it is so nice here.
They weather is so good and camping in a Trailor Tent is not too bad.

I am not a huge camping fan,  but when you sleep in a "real" bed with blankets, a lot of pillows and the weather is nice it's really okay!
So now I'm in Weymouth for one week. It's close to the Jurassic Coast which is a very picturesque coast line. It is a World Heritage Site on the Channel.

I will show you more pictures in the following days.

here I am at the moment