Showing posts with label exmouth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exmouth. Show all posts
Posted by
Sille Bliss
I hate when winter starts to slowly creep in for the season... you start to instantly feel the cold in the air. Just when I'm getting use to wearing my sleeveless tops and flip flops, even running outside barefoot, suddenly all that is gone. I start to dread it, thinking about how long it will be when I'll be able to wear and do these things again. Now once I've gotten over that sadness and I'm dealing with it, it's a whole other story. I begin to embrace the coldness, the shorter days and extremely longer nights, I start getting excited to wear my cozy jumpers and my many jackets & coats I've now accumulated since living here, as well as my many cute scarves and hats. So then I start to enjoy the winter... but then after about 4 months of the blistering cold, constantly having to layer my clothes just to run to the shop, wearing double the socks and leggings under my jeans, I'm just soooo ready for spring and I'm back to hating winter all over again. That's my love and hate relationship with winter since I've been here, and so here we are once again with another long cold winter.
Another photo I do not remember where we were coming from. But the sun was setting and we were just passing Salisbury cathedral. This was a lucky shot and how amazing it was. The cathedral has the tallest church spire in the UK.
Spending time at home right where I belong...
But not on this day, we had to go out to Reading. My first time here and did a little shopping and walking around but I was too cold and a bit sleepy so I headed back to the car ASAP.
Back home, relaxing... :P
Soon we were back out on the streets, the busy streets of Poole a couple days before Christmas in the town center... sounded like a bad idea but we had to go and it actually wasn't that bad at all and quite festive! :)
The day before Christmas eve we were in Weymouth to drop off some things for a client and OMG was it packed!! People everywhere, cars everywhere, it was nuts! I didn't want to get out of the car but our favourite little baker is there and we had to get something for breakfast.
Doctor appointment and a chance to wear my newest jacket :)
Christmas came and went. It was great as always and the same with new years! And another year bites the dust!
2016 was a great year thanks to God! Our family was healthy and our lives full of positivity and love.
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| December 1st - yes, really. |
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| I think this is a start to a very cold and long winter.... I hope not though. |
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| That's probably as much sun as we will be getting for the next 3 months :P |
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| Stocking up with books at the library... we plan to hibernate for the winter. ;-) |
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| Heading to Exmouth, Devon - 12 Dec 2016 |
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| Holy Trinity Church, Exmouth - 12 Dec 2016 |
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| This was one day in somewhere in Dorset heading to Devon |
Another photo I do not remember where we were coming from. But the sun was setting and we were just passing Salisbury cathedral. This was a lucky shot and how amazing it was. The cathedral has the tallest church spire in the UK.
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| Salisbury Cathedral - 14 Dec 2016 |
Spending time at home right where I belong...
But not on this day, we had to go out to Reading. My first time here and did a little shopping and walking around but I was too cold and a bit sleepy so I headed back to the car ASAP.
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| Reading, Berkshire - 21 Dec 2016 |
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| Saw this van in Reading, loved it! :) |
Back home, relaxing... :P
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| My first taste of mulled wine for the winter! |
Soon we were back out on the streets, the busy streets of Poole a couple days before Christmas in the town center... sounded like a bad idea but we had to go and it actually wasn't that bad at all and quite festive! :)
The day before Christmas eve we were in Weymouth to drop off some things for a client and OMG was it packed!! People everywhere, cars everywhere, it was nuts! I didn't want to get out of the car but our favourite little baker is there and we had to get something for breakfast.
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| Bacon and cheese |
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| Weymouth, Dorset - 23 Dec 2016 |
Doctor appointment and a chance to wear my newest jacket :)
Christmas came and went. It was great as always and the same with new years! And another year bites the dust!
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| New Year's Eve - 31 Dec 2016 |
2016 was a great year thanks to God! Our family was healthy and our lives full of positivity and love.
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| Beautiful sun rays over Poole |
Posted by
Sille Bliss
I love when we travel to new places in our area, places that we drive through and near almost every day but always miss by going a different route. I always feel excited like I did when we went to Exmouth and Portland today.
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| Poole to Exmouth 2hr drive |
Technically I've never been down to Exmouth but we drive past it on the motorway all the time. So it was pretty cool to go down and see it. It's about 20 minutes from the motorway and from there you drive through an 'area of natural beauty'. You see these 'Area of Natural Beauty' locations all over the map in England and they really area what they say, especially with the sun peeking through the trees.
Drive to Exmouth on the B3180 near Woodbury
Exmouth is in Devon, right at the border of Dorset and right on the coast, but instead of going down towards the sea like I usually do, I decided to take a walk in the town where everyone seemed to be at this time of the morning. People doing their shopping like always but also enjoying the sun that was out.
Drive to Exmouth on the B3180 near Woodbury
Exmouth is in Devon, right at the border of Dorset and right on the coast, but instead of going down towards the sea like I usually do, I decided to take a walk in the town where everyone seemed to be at this time of the morning. People doing their shopping like always but also enjoying the sun that was out.
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| Exmouth, Devon. England. 2016.02.16 |
It was very cold out but the sun was shining which made it a bit more bearable and being able to have a real reason to use sunglasses was nice too... oppose to only using it to hide my sleepy eyes.
After leaving, we headed back towards home but to Portland Isle. Throughout usual route on the motorway but also another new route a way we have never gone before... exciting! :)
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| Exmouth to Portland |
The new route we went through was from Bridport, West Bay area along the coast via the 'scenic route'. The sign said so itself and again they were right. I have always passed this 'scenic route' sign but we always continue through the motorway and go towards Dorchester anyway to get home. This route takes you out of the way if you aren't heading towards Weymouth or Portland, but this time we were. Photos and videos do not do this view justice... it's a must see in person to really see the beauty, but I took them anyway! :)
I took another video of our route up to Portland.. it's a bit long and boring but if you still want to see then by all means....
I'm trying to do more videos this year, and maybe even get to the point of talking in them and such but for now it's basically stuff here and there.
While in Portland before heading home we made a short detour the opposite direction towards Southwell, to a view point on the cliffs over Freshwater Bay. It was even more cold now than it was in the morning because the sun was going down. We didn't last long up there!
I took another video of our route up to Portland.. it's a bit long and boring but if you still want to see then by all means....
I'm trying to do more videos this year, and maybe even get to the point of talking in them and such but for now it's basically stuff here and there.
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| Portland, Dorset. England. 2016.02.16 |
While in Portland before heading home we made a short detour the opposite direction towards Southwell, to a view point on the cliffs over Freshwater Bay. It was even more cold now than it was in the morning because the sun was going down. We didn't last long up there!
