Ok we are back from first camping trip!!!!!

[Nemo1977]

We all loved it...sooo fab soo excited we have already planned again for mid july. We went to shell island and it was lovely. DD slept sooo much better than at home. Ds ran around like a loon enjoying all the space and sunshine cant wait to go again. Although we will need to save and buy a bigger tent

Great! Another convert. Itsn't it just the mitt's nuts seeing kids being able to be kids

Love it

Where are you going in July?

up from harlech I think

Yay! Another convert!!

shell island is north wales not far from betsy cowyed[or however it is spelt]

Probably go to anglesey in july as we were supposed to go there this weekend and shell island whit weekend..lol

you don't mean BETWS-Y-COED?

or betsy co-ed as my PIL enjoy calling it.

Its lovely there. Where did you stay?

lol filly thats the place..we stayed about 25min drive from there on shell islad which is in llanberh [eek am so bad at spelling the welsh places]

So glad you enjoyed Shell Island nemo, we went for the day over Whit, it was like the Sahara desert, sooooo windy on the beach but stunning setting.

Was it really busy? Did the tides catch you out at all?

\link{http://www.shellisland.co.uk/\Here is their website} in case anyone else fancies it!

I've lived here 8 years and I had to double check the betws spelling.

It looks really nice. Do you stay on the island itself?

Yes, you drive over a sort of causeway and it's rolling fields set behind the sand dunes where you just pitch where you fancy!

ooooh....

yeah its going to be 4/5 hours from cardiff

It is fantastic.
Lucycat luckily we never got caught out but ds loved it crab fishing etc have gorgeous pic of him with his 4 baby crabs in his bucket. Although as you said on the saturday it was very windy but was a blessing due to the heat.

Ooh, was it nice? What fabulous weather. We're meant to be going to shell island next weekend...BUT my friend is worried that it will be full of chavs - i take it that it wasn't?

mazzy it was fine..a few chavish people but that will probably have been down to the football aswell...beauty of shell island is that you can pitch in some fab fab excluded plots especially if you are going with other people.

cheers nemo, there's about 12 of us going so we will probably be ok. what did you do for shade?

we bought a little beach tent for dd but other people brought gazebos and everything...too well organised for me