May Half Term Fun - Part 2

We do like to explore a bit on our adventures so having settled nicely into life at East Fleet Farm we decided to venture out of the campsite and enjoy some of the breathtaking views from the top of the hill overlooking the campsite.

Followed by a spot of lunch down by the water...

We also spent one of our days venturing into Weymouth.  It's not a short walk as it is approx 3 miles away but it was good exercise and we had a great day out by the seaside even though the weather wasn't quite as good as it was previously.

True to form, we found a nice pub to have lunch in at the marina called The Ship Inn - it is child and dog friendly and the food and atmosphere was very nice and it was fairly reasonably priced.

There is also an on-site pub at the campsite serving a very nice selection of beers, wines and ciders.  They don't serve food but the added bonus of that is that they don't mind you ordering a take-away and eating it in the pub.  They provide all the plates and cutlery and also do the washing up for you!  

The weather didn't quite hold up as the week went on so we ordered an Indian take-away one evening which we ate in the pub.  There are also on-site fish and chips, pizza and crepe vans  which are open on specific days during the week (with the crepe van serving breakfast also) and although we only ate from the fish and chip van, all the food looked delicious!

On our last day we walked in the other direction into Chickerell (approximately a 20 minute walk) and stumbled across a lovely pub which was serving a mid-week carvery. Everyone's eyes lit up when they saw this and so we whiled away a few hours eating far too much food.

The pub was called The Turks Head Inn and it was a lovely small pub and very inviting.

So we wound up our last day of holiday flying kites in the designated field on the campsite:

We were very sad to leave as we had the most amazing week but we are due to come back in September for another VW Cali Club meet-up and can't wait to visit this amazing place again.

May Half Term Fun - Part 1

For May half term we packed up the Cali with us, the kids, the dogs, plenty of food and drink, clothes and games and set off to East Fleet Farm for 6 nights.  I cannot recommend this place highly enough, it is (so far) the best campsite we have been to with the best facilities and every photo on the website is actually how it looks in real life.

It was the Saturday of the bank holiday weekend when we arrived and the place was extremely busy but somehow it seems to function so well that we didn't really notice.  There are an abundance of showers and toilets (with an extra block that opens up during busy times) and plenty of washing up facilities, a laundry area and family shower rooms.  Everything was kept very clean.

We had a hardstanding pitch with a large grass area next to it where we could play swingball...

...or be an observer while escaping from the sunshine under the parasol with the dogs...

As this was our longest stay so far in the Cali we resurrected some of our old camping gear that we had decided to hold on to and set up a sort of 'base camp':

We found our Outwell kitchen unit to be particularly handy and it was great to have the extra outside space in the awning for food preparation and storage.

Even though we were very close to the fantastic playground, there is a games room near to the reception with all sorts of games and various exercise equipment which the kids very much wanted to explore.  The walkie-talkies that my husband had bought for them turned out to be essential for this sort of thing as it is a fair walk to that area depending on where you are staying in the site.

There is an on-site shop selling all sorts of camping equipment, games and essentials so we purchased a flag pole and windsock - this acted as a great identifier to the kids of where our pitch was so they could always find us (and we managed to find a VW one!) :

We spent the first couple of days getting to know the campsite, playing games and enjoying the start of our holiday.  It was perfect.