Blog ≫ 2012 ≫ Great weekend in Watergate Bay
Been to Cornwall with the weekend with the boys, not Newquay, but near Newquay, Watergate Bay. Nice to catch up with them all, it's been a while really. Seems we used to have stag do's constantly, none even on the horizon now so we had a boys weekend without any excuse.
I took Friday off, and headed straight to Fareham from here, then picked up a lift and we drove the rest of the way. It's a long way to go for a weekend, a five hour drive from Fareham but would be worth it when we arrived.
We stopped part of the way there at Lyme Bay Winery1 where we stocked up with cider. Yeah not wine, odd that. They do make country wine there, bramble and damson and so on, and they will be making their own wine next year. But not yet. The cider was great, we bought a few gallon containers. Yes better than my own home brew cider.
Did not make it to any of the pubs I mentioned, the only one we went in was The Phoenix which was right next to where we stayed at Beachcomber Apartments. Very nice, recommended! We had two apartments, each with a twin room, a double suite (with en-suite) and then a sofa bed in the lounge too. All very nice fittings, fully featured, wifi, sky tv, balcony nice furniture etc.
One slightly tricky thing in the area was parking - we had one space per apartment and we had two cars, so one car had to be in the seven pound per day car park for part of the weekend. On the Sunday we found a free space half a mile or so up the road.
We did lots of walking on the beach and even hired wetsuits and bodyboards and went in the sea. The scenery is very dramatic, the cliffs and rocks on the beach I mean mostly. Is it still scenery when you are right up close to it? Photos.
Rubbish journey there, a defective train and then a service cancelled for being delayed made me an hour and a half later. Similar story on the way back, a fatality at Woking threw all my services out so I was STUCK at the first hurdle of my second leg of the way home, from Portchester onwards. Got a bus to Cosham then only an hour later I was on my way. Taking this route, from there to Brighton then to Ashford, was a super saving. Nineteen pounds, reduced to thirteen with my Network Card, compared to fifty six if I'd gone via London.
- Removed old lymebaywinery.co.uk/ link here.