Day 13

Day 13 Abbots Shingle CL Farnham

Sausages and Tori`s excellent home made bread,tea and coffee.

Cant believe I was kept awake till midnight last night by appalling karaoke renditions of Angels and Mustang Sally etc. Must have been a party at one of the local mansions but just seemed a little bizarre in these surroundings.

Met the owner of the site today, proper eccentric. Owns a good few acres of woodland in the Surrey Hills area of outstanding natural beauty but looks like he hasnt got two pennies to rub together. Nice guy, if a little talkative.

Depart for Julias and then walk into Farnham for the food festival. Interesting mix of "local" Indian Chinese and Thai food cohabiting with £mega jars of chutney and Jam. Scratch the surface and its quite interesting though, purchased some tasty looking micro brews for consumption later, hog roast and ostrich burgers for lunch, English made chorizo sounds interesting but had sold out. Picked up some spelt flour from a man with a very satisfying beard to experiment with too. The flour that is not his beard.

Julia forced us to walk the entire length of Farnham to see an imaginary hot air balloon, Mum a little hot and bothered so had to walk back to get the car to pick her up. Thank god for air-con thats all I can say.

Another lovely tea served up by Julia, home made meatballs with all the trimmings, seems to have brought Mum round ok. Sit and watch the havoc as she tries to prepare two teenage boys for the parties they are attending "I did tell you it was fancy dress" and "I did tell you I needed a birthday present". After waving goodbye to Jesus and one of Mumford & sons we return for our last night in the caravan.

Hard to believe two weeks have gone by already. Three hour drive home then its all over.Will have the final holiday blog entry with the rest of the pics tomorrow night all being well then its back to "normal"