We woke up expecting to have a nice breakfast of smoked salmon and scrambled egg however the gas was gone so we had to have cereal and toast instead. We spent the morning chilling before Helen's grandparents came over. We took sandwiches and snacks to the beach for lunch. On the beach two boys came over to us and invited us to a beach party that evening. We of course accepted the offer. We had curry, rice and naan for dinner, followed by meringues and fruit. A...

Today we rose slowly and had waffles with Nutella and fruit for breakfast. After breakfast we quickly got changed and then took our books outside and sunbathed on the deckchairs in the garden. It wasn't until later that we realised how sunburnt we all were... For lunch we went to a restaurant called the blue groove and we sat outside and I had mussels. After lunch we all got matching anklets and then made our way down to the beach. On the beach we saw a handful...

Helen and I woke up at 730 and went for a half an hour bike ride in the rain to the bakery (which was closed). We instead just came home and made pancakes. After breakfast we had a sing/ dance along for just under two hours. We listened to all the songs that we would have loved in the past- it was genuinely like a year 7 disco... For lunch we just had cheese and pesto on bagels which we ate outside on the deckchairs. After lunch, we chilled and then went in th...

We left for Croyde today, which marked the beginning of our two weeks away. Of course Florence and Lilia were fifteen minutes late to leave for the station... The journey here was enjoyable; we saw the boys as they were on the same train and we all listened in depth to other passengers' conversations (and later recited them). We played a game where we had to guess our taxi driver's name and awkwardly we all guessed men's names and it turned out to be a woman. ...