28 Weeks

The Proms

My turn to plan date night, an evening at the Royal Albert Hall enjoying the very British institution that is the BBC Proms.  We had prime seats right in the centre and felt very smug watching all the those who only had 'promenade' tickets in front of us and had to stand while we reclined in comfort.

27 Weeks

Victims of Crime

Unfortunately our trip ended on a bit of a sour note, we were on the beach on our last day and our backpack was stolen from our sun loungers.  We ended up losing our two kindles, my phone and our camera, but were lucky enough that the rest of the stuff was found dumped over the fence of another hotel near the beach.  We think it must have been kids that stole it, as we were later able to recover the backpack which still contained various other items with Tim's wallet complete with 60 euros of cash and all his credit cards still in it!  Considering how much travel we have done in the last few years this has been our first incident of theft, so we've been pretty lucky really.  The most upsetting thing was losing all our holiday snaps on the camera, and being Spain the process of reporting it all to the police was a bit of a mission, but at least we are insured so should manage to get most of it back.

Independent at Last

While on holiday our days began to fall into a regular pattern of breakfast, pool, reading, swimming, lunch, beach, dinner and avoiding the really cheesy nightly entertainment at the resort!  So we decided to hire a car for a day and get out and explore some more of the island.  Although many of our photos were on the stolen camera, we luckily have a few to share taken on our big SLR.

First stop of the day was a visit to some amazing caves filled with stalactites and stalagmites   We took part in a tour which was mostly in Spanish as we were the only English speakers, so we began to dawdle towards the back, enjoying the peace and quiet away from the other noisy tourists.  Wanting to keep the group together, the strategy for getting us to hurry up was turning all the lights off on us, quite scary when you are so far underground!

After our cave adventure, next stop was a relatively quiet beautiful beach where we swam and enjoyed the scenery, far from any other English speaking tourists and fish and chip shops hurray!  We enjoyed a leisurely seafood lunch at a local restaurant, relishing the chance to eat non resort food!

That afternoon we took a drive out to a beautiful penisular with stunning views, before stopping for another swim on a secluded beach.  It was so nice to be independent for the day and discover that Majorca is not just a slice of Britain in the sun, but also has some beautiful authentic parts as well.

26 Weeks

This was taken at our new (much more central) resort in Alcudia.  I think it will be our one and only experience of a package holiday as it wasn't really our style, but it certainly made for a very easy, stress-free holiday which was what we were after.

Majorca

Unfortunately our small digital camera was stolen while we were away so we only have a few snaps of our summer trip to Majorca that were taken on either Tim's phone or our big SLR.   Initially we had not planned to travel much during the summer as we were both quite reluctant to stray too far from home soil and the good old NHS during the pregnancy.  However with everything going so well we decided to be brave and booked a 12 night all inclusive package holiday through a travel agent, something we have never done before as we usually prefer independent travel.

This was the first resort we stayed at on the island.  It was nice but a bit quiet for our liking so after complaining to our travel agent we only spent the first half of our holiday here before being moved to another more central resort in Alcudia.

World Famous in Coventry

The remaining tickets to Olympic events became very hard to get as the games went on, with millions of people trying to access the website each day to snap up seats as they became available.  In a moment of great excitement, Estelle thought she had been successful purchasing tickets to the Women's Football at Wembley, but it turned out after she had sealed the deal that they were actually for Coventry, a two hour train ride from London!  As we were both on school holidays we decided to go anyway, and were especially excited when we discovered that the semi final would feature France versus Canada!  Dressed in our French berets and stripy tops, it was a shame France didn't manage to win, but we did get interviewed by the Coventry Telegraph on our way out of the stadium!  Check out the full story below:

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2012/08/10/fans-out-in-force-for-last-olympic-football-match-in-coventry-92746-31589964/

25 Weeks

Taekwondo

One of the mums from school phoned me last minute with an offer of two tickets to the Olympic Taekwondo as she was unable to attend.  Having no idea of any of the rules it was quite an experience, but a fun afternoon out and awesome to sample another piece of Olympic action.

Macaroons

Tim's first attempt at these little beauties - vanilla, strawberry and coffee flavours - delicious!

Close Enough to Feel the Sweat

We managed to get tickets to the 20km Men's Power Walking, amazing stuff as these guys do it in just over an hour.  As they did ten 2km loops back and forth past Buckingham Palace it was pretty exciting and definitely an experience, being sprayed with sweat each time the athletes went past!

24 Weeks

The hypnobirthing book I am currently reading says that loud thumping music should be avoided while pregnant.  I choose to believe that Goldie actually enjoys the Body Pump classes we go to and I plan on keeping it up as long as I can.