Lad os gøre det igen! // Let’s do it again!

Henover de sidste par uger har jeg ikke været op til det meste, men denne weekend var vejret så så godt, at det ville være en skam, at blive indendørs. Siden at jeg ikke har været på en road trip med det sædvanlige hold (aka Laura, Valentina og Ben) på det seneste, valgte vi at gøre det igen i lørdags. Denne gang tog vi til Camber Sands hvilket er en strand nær landsbyen Camber i East Sussex. Siden at det er den eneste sand mile i området, var det rimelig selvforklarende at stranden ville være fyldt med mennesker. For at få det meste ud af dagen, tog vi af sted rimelig tidligt. Laura, Valentina og jeg var alle klar til at møde Ben kvart over ni, men tak til Ben for at være mere end 15 minutter forsinket… Men da vi endelig kom af sted (i Bens nyligt modificeret bil som lyder rædselsfuldt men det er ligegyldet), skulle vi selvfølgelig synge med på nogle af de bedste sange af alle tider, hvilket du måske kan huske os gøre fra sidst. Nogle af de sange som vi bragte til live i bilen var gamle, men guld værd, såsom Bruno Mars, Katy Perry og The Black Eyed Pead. Jeg må lige nævne at vi skam fik nogle sjove blik fra enkelte personer der så os gennem vinduerne da vi kørte igennem de mindre byer. Det tog os lidt mere end en time for at ankomme til Camber Sands, men det var (som altid) en super dejlig køretur. Da vi stadig ankom til stranden forholdsvis tidligt, formåede vi at finde en god siddeplads før flere mennesker kom senere den dag.

Vi havde fra dagen før, så fredag, allerede været ude at købe en masse lækkert mad og snacks som vi kunne nyde på stranden. Vi købte i den grad alt for meget mad, men vi havde en god mangfoldighed af udvalg, så intet var til spilde alligevel. Ben havde for nylig købt en pakke Jelly Belly Bean Boozled Challenge hvilket han havde bragt med til stranden. Jeg er i den grad ikke en stor fan af at putte ulækre smag i min mund og heller ikke engang en fan af normal-smagende Jelly Beans, men jeg prøvede dog et par sammen med de andre. Pakken indeholdte en spinde, så vi alle tog to runder hver (eller vi tvang Laura til at tage et par ekstra runder indtil at hun fik en dårlig en, hehe). I den første runde fik jeg konserveret hundemad i stedet for chokoladebudding, men heldigvis fik jeg lime i stedet for græsplæne i anden runde.

En af de mange ting som jeg virkelig nød fra den dag var da vi gik langs stranden da havvandet var ved ets allerlaveste. Netop på grund af tidevandet kunne vi gå hele to kilometer ud til kysten end tidligere på den dag. Jordbunden var vildt blød, så her og der ville vores fødder synke ned i sandet, hvilket var en lille smule ubehageligt, men også ganske sjovt.

Vi forlod Camber Sands ved  halv otte tiden, og tillad mig at sige at det var ret følelsesladet at sige farvel. At sige farvel er altid svært, og især hvis man ikke ved hvornår man vil komme tilbage, men selvom Camber Sands bare er et sted, vil det altid være et hjem til en af mine favorit dage ude her i England.

”Bedre at se noget en gang, frem for at høre om det en million gange..”

// Over the past few weeks I haven’t been up to that much, however, this weekend the weather was so so nice, that it would be a shame to stay indoors, and since I haven’t been on a road trip with the usual team (aka Laura, Valentina and Ben) lately, we decided to do it again on Saturday. This time we went to Camber Sands which is a beach at the village of Camber in East Sussex. Since it is the only sand dune system in the county, it was pretty self-explanatory that the beach would be packed! To get the most out of the day, we left quite early. Laura, Valentina and I were all ready to meet Ben at quarter past nine, but cheers to Ben for being more than 15 minutes late…  Anyways, when we finally hit the road (in Ben’s newly modified car which sounds dreadful but whatever), we obviously had to sing along to some of the greatest tunes of all time, which you might remember us doing last time as well. Some of the songs that we brought back to life in the car were old, but gold, such as Bruno Mars, Katy Perry and The Black Eyed Peas. I must say, we did get some weird looks from certain people that saw us through the windows when we drove through the smaller towns. It took us a bit more than an hour before to arrive to Camber Sands, but it was (as always) a super pleasant drive. As we still arrived to the beach quite early, we did manage to get a good spot before more people came later in the day.

We had from the day before, so Friday, already bought loads of delicious food and snacks that we could enjoy on the beach. We definitely bought way too much food, but we did have a nice variety of different choices, so nothing was to a complete waste anyways. Ben had recently bought the Jelly Belly Bean Boozled Challenge which he had brought with him to the beach. I am definitely not a fan of eating disgusting-tasting food neither am I a fan of normal-tasting Jelly Beans, however, I did have a go with the others. It was the kit with the spinner, so we all went for two rounds each (or we did force Laura to do a few extra rounds till she got a bad one, hehe). In the first round I got the canned dog food instead of chocolate pudding which was disgusting, but luckily in the next round I had lime instead of lawn clippings.

One of the many things that I really enjoyed from that day was when we walked along the beach when the sea levels was at it very lowest. Due to the tide we could walk roughly around two kilometres more to the seaside than we were able to do earlier on the day. The ground was super soft though, and every now and then our feet would sink a decent drop into the sand which was a bit disgusting, but also quite funny.

We left Camber Sands at around half past seven, and let me say that it was quite emotional to say goodbye. Goodbyes are always difficult, and especially if you don’t know when you will come back, but even though Camber Sands is just a place, it will always be the home to one of my favourite days out in England.

“Better to see something once, than to hear about it a thousand times..”