This is Warmer Castle, firmly re-named Windy Castle by the kids and you can see why.  They get dragged here every time we’re in the area as it’s one of my favourite places ever.

There’s the faded elegance inside (it’s also where the Duke of Wellington died).

And the gardens are glorious – typically formal English – but manage to be so natural you’re convinced the plants just wanted to grow this way anyway. And the view..sigh..there’s an uninterrupted vista all the way down to the sea..

We found a large dead frog in the pond..true excitement! I didn’t take a picture..

It’s also really good for hide and seek..

Then we hit the hottest day of the year so far…time for a sandy beach..so to Camber Sands we went..

We weren’t the only people with this ingenious idea..

But this is a beach that soaks up people..the view the other side..

It also has one of the biggest tides I’ve ever seen..

You have to run..

And run!

But it’s worth it!

Then you have to run back again!

We found baby flat fish in the shallows..if you prodded them they spun away at great speed like disturbed underwater birds.

And a dead dog fish with impressive spines.

But just to show it’s not all happy families…this is Bella at the end of the day giving Charlie the evil eye for daring to enter her newly designed ferry without buying a ticket first..go on guys..just one smile for Mummy! Please?!

Laters, Kate x