The New Year and a new Destination!

After our wonderful WWOOFing experience we came home to Ilfracombe for the end of the year and to spend Christmas with the family. We also helped with bits and pieces of DIY, the house is looking amazing, we kept coming back to find more and more of the house having been beautifully finished. Christmas was fun with all of us home.

In the new year after a little holiday at Center parcs, which was lots of fun, lots of swimming, Badminton, card games, and food, we started looking into where to go to next. After much debate and research we decided that Plymouth would be the best option (Exeter was top until we found out how expensive living costs were). So from the end of January we started applying for all possible jobs. So first we decided to visit Plymouth, to see if we liked it.

So we booked a hotel visit to check it out, we stayed at Jurys Inn, in the middle of the city.

 The view from our hotel room on the 8th floor

Our very comfortable hotel room

St Andrew church that literally is the roundabout which you can see from the hotel hallway

The Lighthouse at the sea front

The memorial Garden for WW1 and WW2

F.G. GODDARD is my great grandfather who died aboard the HMS Thistle a submarine blown up by a German U-boat

 The memorial Garden

another view of the Memorial

The Quay at the Barbican, the building with the curvy roof in the top corner is the Aquarium 

 The brilliant sculpture at the quayside near where the Mayflower set sail, although technically the actual ship set sail from inside what is now a pub across the road from the where the quay is now.

   The icing on top of the cake, Matt found Bibbon St he was so happy to be moving somewhere monkey related hehe!

After this we seriously focussed on getting jobs in Plymouth

Watch this space for our next move x x x x