Fortune Favours the Brave

6th June 2009 was our first night away, Myself and Jen left the dynamic duo with Nick and Jude and we headed for the Gower. We got the campsite around 8-00pm and finally found a space by some bikers. The camp site (£20) overlooked Port Eynon, and we went to ship Inn for a few beers and a steak. The pub was full of drunk valley boys and there was almost a fight. We met some of the guys outside later and they were fine they new our mate Terry from Ferndale.

"We were in the eye of the storm and it was perfect"

25th June 2009 Where were you when the King of Pop passed on ?


Nothing to do me I was thousands of miles in sunny Glastonbury. Myself Tyson, Craig, Jacky, Strider and the two Steve's were walking around in the lightning on the way to the Mandela Bar when people kept shouting "Michael Jackson is dead". I had thought about taking the Bongo, but the camper van fields are miles away and the weather wasn't that good this year. Maybe next year....

Talking of Glatonbury the line up was very poor this year, however I did get to see some great acts. In particular Neil Young, Blur, Dreadzone (I am in the video for their new single) and Dodgy. We all had a great time and got on well. I did find 5 days a little long and have now shelved plans to go up on the Tuesday evening and camp nearby. Myself and Steve left Cardiff at 6-00am but because everyone went up on Wednesday, we didn't get there until about about 2-00pm. Craig took over 13 hours. The traffic was bad and the festival seemed over crowded. Getting out was bad at first although we packed up at 6-00, we got stuck in the car park at first. However we found a escape route and were home by 1-00pm.

4th of July 2009

Alix and cabbage spent the night with Jen in Kiln Park, our most expensive site so far (£48 with electric and passes to Wally World). The girls had a great time and spent the next day in Tenby. The weather was bad and it rained for a lot of the weekend

8th of July Als 13th Birthday

We rented a limo, I think the Bongo would have been better... remind me to tell you how Pizza/Pasta Hut had given our table away and I had to clear a table in time for the limo.....We had a great night though

11th of July 2009

The four of us went to the Gower and stayed in The Gower Farm Camp Site (£17 with electric). When we left the rain was so bad we had trouble seeing out the windscreen on the motorway.





When we got to the campsite the owner was surprised to see us and let us hook up at the back of the field. It took as a while to get the awning sorted as it was our first time putting it up (big mistake) Me and Jen got soaked. Once we got it sorted we moved all the stuff out of the van and had a cup of coffee.

We then took a spin down the the King Arthur for a pub meal. Once inside we found out they were fully booked so we drove down to Port Eynon and had a meal in "chips Ahoy". Dan amused everyone by doing his Michael Jackson routine. On the way home we went to Rhossili, the tide was going out and we couldn't believe the amount of rubbish on the beach. The walk back up to the Bongo almost killed us as well. Dan was asking to go home then, so we picked up another McDonald's in Swansea and headed back home.

We liked this campsite it was quiet and very basic but that suited us, in fact I only saw one person apart from the owner. I used to have a caravan (Stella) at this site back in 90s, and I used to take Travis down there and play poker with the lads ..... but that's another story.......

On the way back we saw part of the Swansea airshow and got flashed by an N reg white AFT Bongo.

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