You’ll spend hours there and because the weather is so nice you can sunbath in your shorts and vest and go paddle in the sea. Well, that’s the expectation. Unfortunately, reality is far from it...
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We traveled for about an hour to the beach and paid £3 parking, to spend 20 minutes there for good reasons!
The first sign that this was all going wrong was that we aimed to leave at 2pm, but left at 2:45pm, blame me and Kyle for that one oops. Then we made it to Tesco by the beach that we were headed to with barely ten minutes to spare until it closed, at that point, we should have given up.
As we were all expecting the sunny weather we dressed accordingly, this being in shorts, tee’ s, and dresses. But It was actually freezing and the wind was awful. Myself, Connie, and Phoebe wrapped towels around us because it was so cold! Also, Our one and only form of a windbreaker which was our umbrella broke so we ended up with a lot of sand being blown at us.
A rookie error was that the boys didn’t build the bbq until we got to the beach, where they half built it...
Sam and Kyle tried lighting the bbq so many times I lost count. While Ben was spectating (I assume he just knew that shit would hit the fan) and Connor started ticking into a half-frozen chocolate Gato. Yes, that really was desperate times call for desperate measures moment we were all famished.
It was at that moment we knew we had to give up and go home, a bbq at the beach just didn’t seem possible at this point. How could it get worse? Oh, wait it did! When packing the bbq away Sam dropped it into a bottle of fizz, which then decided to explode all over us and my handbag, and when we thought we had managed to put it down and stop it suddenly we had even more fizz pouring out of the bottle...
Now, remember all this happened within about 20 minutes so as you can imagine it was chaos! However, we did end up with a super cute photo which is below:
By that point we left the beach and went to Connie’s we continued our bbq there and let me tell you, it was much better. We had chairs, a bbq that could actually light and those chicken, chorizo skewers were a hit
Moral of the story is;
- double-check the weather before you leave
- Bring a disposable bbq or at least build it before you leave
- Bring more towels
- Actually have firelighters with you
- Invest in a proper windbreaker for days like this
- And finally, be ready to pack up and go home after 20 minutes...
Whilst inconvenient these are the memories that will stay for a lifetime. It was funny, chaotic, and fun all wrapped in one.
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