Just got back from our camping trip to Wales and have had a great time. We camped 2 nights in Port Eynon on the Gower, then stayed in the barn in Llanbedr with Gareth and all and finally had one night camping again in the excellently named Northleach in the Cotswolds.
This was Olive's 2nd camping trip. For a 7-week-old she is now a real pro!
Her 1st trip (aged just 5 weeks) to Norfolk had got us worried about temperature - she woke up every 2 hours at 2am, 4am & 6am and the van was just 13Celcius, about 10 degrees lower than our bedroom. This worried us and altho the always-positive-Mrs-Leach pointed out that she would wake up at 2am and 6am normally (good point) we took a few urgent measures. Firstly I bought a form of insulation for the van roof, secondly we upgraded her from swaddle to a 2.5 tog sleeping bag, and finally our friends Richard and Eleanor gave us some truly excellent Merino wool baby grows (Bambino Merino !!).
In Wales this combined to give Olive her best nights sleep yet !!! 5 hours followed by 4 hours. I woke at 7.55am (1hr 30 mins after Olive's normal awake time) and thought 'Oh my God, someone's stolen our baby' !?!
Things for us to remember
1) Always ignore weather forecasts - we had fantastic sun in Gower and Llanbedr
2) In the van all things have 2 uses - the car seat is also a baby bouncer, and the changing mat is also a baby gym !
Well done Olive. What a great 5 days.
Pics should be - Olive, I & Baby Bjorn on beach in Port Eynon
Mrs Leach cooking up a storm (she brought bay leaves & put a menu up inside the van!)
Our big saturday walk with the full Welsh gang, lunchstop with many many children, nice Team Leach team shot & the 3 of us in the valleys.
Finally a pretty raw quick video - apologies for wind noise.
TTFN
Wow! Olive has become an adventurer just like her parents! She looks like she's proper lovin' it as well! Can't get over how besotted Robin looks in all his pictures with Olive (and his wife of course!). So nice to see such a happy trio. Must say the clip of Rob was like watching PGL - some real likenesses there. Maybe a Leach camping outing in the future? Tim Sal Flo and Rob Lyd Olive? Keep up the happy camping. Miss you all. Jus & Al xx
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