Love from, Florence Grace

Friday 24th June.  Best. Day. Ever. I'm not even kidding you, today was definitely in my top 10 best moments ever, if not my top 5. It was so incredible. As you know, we woke up to the EU Referendum vote. All of us voted in, so we were more than a little disappointed with the result. On top of this, it was drizzling and grey and we had our sea safari booked for today, so this didn't exactly thrill us. However, we set off bright and early to the town of Ilfracombe for a spot of breakfast and a wander around before our trip. ] At 2pm we made our way to the harbour, where we were first in line for the sea safari. It was on a speed boat, and being at the front meant we didn't get to sit on the normal bench seats like the other 8-10 guests. Myself, Alec, Ricarda and BJ had to sit on a thin ledge, straddling it like a bike seat. There was a metal bar in front of me and Ricarda for us to hang on to and the boys sat behind us. At first we were a little wary of th...

Wednesday 22nd June.  Today we woke up and unfortunately, it was raining. This didn't alter the fabulous views from the roof of the house though! We woke up at 9 with the aim of getting out of the house at 10...needless to say, this didn't happen! By the time we'd cooked and eaten breakfast and decided (ahem, argued) about what to do with the day, we didn't leave until around 11:30, deciding to make our way to the close small town, Appledore- you can see this town across from our part of the island! When we got to Appledore, thankfully the rain stopped! It still wasn't sunny but it was warm and clear. The town itself is bigger than the one we're staying in (only slightly) and there was even some younger people around, although still not as young as us! BJ is a photographer so we spent some time taking good photo's of the scenery- and each other!  Appledore is a small seaside town, so the shops were all quite ...

So here it is, Devon day 1! Whilst today is Wednesday, I am posting about yesterday, and it will be like that for the rest of the week...so I will always be a day behind, if that makes sense! So, let's talk about Tuesday the 21st June.  We were scheduled to set off from Aylesbury to Devon at 9am, aiming to get to Devon at about 1pm. As it happens, we didn't leave Aylesbury until 10pm and arrived at 4pm- that's an additional two hours to our original journey plan! However, an hour of this was due to an unexpected stop for lunch at a service station because we all realised that a) we would really  like to stretch our legs and b) we were all starving. At the service station I tried my first ever Papa John's pizza and it was truly incredible- even better than Domino's! However, the highlight for me was definitely being given a 2002 style mobile phone buzzer so you could place your order, go shopping and then come back when your buzzer went off! This excited me probabl...