To celebrate Father’s Day we took Jake on his first holiday. Amy had booked a nice apartment in a converted stables. The weather was superb with a cloudless blue sky and temperatures of 28-29 degrees celcius. Our apartment was lovely and had it’s own conservatory overlooking the hills and the Blackmore Vale beyond. The farm had a swimming pool and Amy had prepared by buying Jake a pair of swim shorts.
What we needed though was a swimming vest so we toodled off to Dorchester to find one. We found a few shops selling these but Jake was too young for so after a little searching we came across a ‘floaties’ ring. This is basically an inflatable ring with the little chair and two hole where the legs go. Jake absolutely loved his first encounter in the pool. He splashed about looking around and taking it all in. We only spent 5 minutes as the water was a little chilly for him.
The place where we stayed was called Woolland and was very central for the major sites. On Friday we headed to the coast . At Durdle Door Amy took Jake in the sling facing outwards which he loved. We strolled up through the campsite, across the meadow and onto the cliff path. We didn’t venture any further because the path got quite steep so it was a little treacherous. Afterwards we drove to Lulworh Cove. Jake was tired and very fed up by now and started to cry so we curtailed our visit and drove back to the farm to watch the match. 🙂