Thanks for your nice comments. Yes, am loving having the camper. It's good to get out and about with the kids, although I'm not sure it's curing my wanderlust, I think it's just making it worse.
And you are right about the boy thing – they just want to be on the go all day, although the 10 year old is starting to like shopping, and now cares about washing and spends quite a lot of time getting his hair right. When we were away, he had girls calling for him every day. Mmm, so like his dad!
Anyway, you should give Mersea a try – it's lovely and there are a couple of nice places to eat. It has a place called the Company Shed that sells seafood on the beach. You bring your own bread and booze.
http://www.west-mersea.co.uk/articles/3 ... mpany-shed
And Charmouth is lovely. We went in the last week of July and every year at that time they have a village show. It was like going back fifty years – there was a stall where you could pay 50p to throw wooden balls at a wall of crockery and try to smash it. My kids just thought it was brilliant, that they could be allowed to smash up their granny's plates and no-one would have a go at them, it's little boy heaven. And there was tug of war and old fashioned bowling, like you used to get at the back of pubs and Punch and Judy and stuff.
And in the evening they had a indy tribute band on, who played off the back of a potato truck, and all these villagers came out as the sun went down with their kids and loads of beer and danced until midnight on the hay bales. And in the morning, they were all behind the counters of the shops, nursing massive hangovers and laughing about who'd been drunkist and who'd kissed who. Great fun.
We stayed in a place called Seadown, which has caravans to hire and stuff. Cheap enough but still nice. And it backs onto the beach.
Nice to talk to you as usual. Next Hawley gig down Sarf, we'll meet for a beer. x