Happy Christmas from Little Winnick Touring Park

Enjoying the winter beaches

We would like to wish you and your families a very Happy Christmas and best wishes for 2015.  We hope where ever and however you are celebrating you have a happy and relaxing time.  Here we shall hopefully, if the weather is on our side, start the day with breakfast on the beach - cooked on our trusty camping stove.  We are yet to decide which beach but the short list is Porthpean, Charlestown or Pentewan.  After a bacon and egg butty we will head to Richard's family for a Christmas lunch and dinner.  In the lead up to Christmas we will be visiting the big man himself at Heligan and maybe take in the decorations at The Eden Project.

Work is cracking on here at a fair rate of knots with the toilet block.  As with all building projects we have had some ups and downs already.  Last blog I said we were pleased we would only need strip foundations.  Well as we dug more out it became apparent the water table in places was just too high for this to happen.  So we are back to plan A and have been digging out for a raft foundation with vast amounts of steel in place, the concrete was poured creating a raft for the building work to get under way on.  We are really pleased with how it is going and can not wait to share with you all the end result.

The wildflower meadow

As for other work, yesterday saw 40+ laurels and various other shrubs being added to the already established planting that divides the pitches.  This will help make the pitches even more private in places than they are already.  The bottom field is starting to really take shape.  It was sown in early Autumn as a wild flower meadow with 25+ trees being planted there too.  The field is really starting to come to life and we hope it will attract an assortment of wildlife whilst providing guests with a lovely area to walk your dogs.

Steel before concrete was poured.

Winter is our time to take holidays.  At the end of November we went to Norfolk to visit my mum and dad, followed by a midweek break in Center Parcs for just the four of us - our first family holiday since Bethany joined us, it was really lovely to stop and have a well deserved break.  We ended our trip with a weekend at friends in London - I was spoilt with afternoon tea in London....a real treat!

We are also using our time wisely to visit places - obviously so we can help guests with places to suggest when you visit!  Our latest is The Beach Hut Cafe on Watergate Bay,  dog and child friendly it offers the most amazing hot chocolates and scrummy breakfasts along with lunch and dinner.  The sausages were the nicest I have had in ages.  This week sees an outing to the Eden Cafe for 'Vicar on the Fiddle'.  The local vicar has quite a well known band that plays every year in the Cafe whilst you can sip mulled cider and such delights...I am very excited about the prospect of a night out to get in the Christmas mood.  As always we are spending lots of time on the local beaches.  We went to Pentewan the other day, where strangely there was a whale that had washed up, sadly it was already dead before it came ashore, but it was quite a strange site!

Once again we wish you and your family a very Happy Christmas.

Best Wishes
Richard, Heidi, the girls and our merry band of helpers