JollyDays Supported Holidays - Blog

  London Parks & Gardens  Raring to go we headed off to our first park of the holiday. Richmond Park is in the borough of Richmond Upon Thames and was created by Charles l   in the 17 th  century as a deer park.  It is also the largest of all the London Royal parks. We discovered it is of national and international importance for wildlife and conservation being as it is a natural nature reserve.   We walked through the Isabella plantation, a 40-acre woodland garden which was full to burst with brightly coloured and fragrant flowers. There was a huge lake that we walked around, and we became nature spotters finding ducks, Egyptian geese with their goslings swimming around. The views all around were simply breathtaking.  Another day and another beautiful garden. Kew Gardens is a botanic garden and its living collection includes some 27,000-taxi curated by Royal Botanic Gardens while the terrarium is one of the largest in the world and has o...

  Butlins, Fun & Dancing  We went in search of some fun at the fair! The dodgems were a hit with the group as we bumped and crashed into each other.  It was our lucky day as we won prizes on the traditional fairground stalls.  Down at the bowling alley it was game on for a few nail biting games. It was a close match with some high scores and a few strikes.  We treated ourselves to an ice cream treat....we were on holiday after all!  One of our highlights is meeting the friendly RedCoats who always take the time to speak to us. The live shows never disappoint and you would always find us dancing the night away.  The Formula 1 track provided lots of laughs as we raced around the track with some  skilful  driving. Feeling lucky we headed down to the arcades to spend some of our holiday pennies.    We jumped in the minibus and made our way to Lynmouth which was simply breathtaking with views of the sea, sweeping hills and moors...