The best thing about this holiday...

...hasn't been the beautiful places we've visited, it's been the time we've spent together as a family.

We're staying in a friend's hotel and the restaurant closes on a Sunday so today we've taken over the hotel kitchen and made watermelon sorbet and fresh pizza in the pizza oven!

Shanti and Gill took the dog for a walk and I've done some planning for my new job in September (running a community cookery project). Not quite your normal Sunday, but for our family it's close enough!

While I have the time to type, I'll put in some of the words that really should have accompanied the other photos I've been posting on our holiday. We started with an amazing few days in Cornwall. Gill and I have always planned to retire there and we had a couple of mini-breaks there near the beginning of our relationship. For one reason and another though we haven't visited for years. So it was quite surreal to return about 8 years on, still together and with 2 children!! A lovely reminder of how much life has changed for the better in that time :)

The children loved it there as much as we do and we were lucky to get amazing weather as the icing on the cake. Highlights were watching the sun set at Gwithian Sands, eating copious amounts of cornish ice-cream in St Ives, Krishan body-boarding, finding our own quiet, secluded beach at Porthcurno and crab fishing and rockpooling first at Sennen and then in Looe. It was a truly perfect few days :)

We then headed home for a couple of days to pack for our Swiss adventure and for Gill to take Krishan to watch his first football match. Man U vs Wigan at Wembly Stadium, in a VIP box... not bad as first match experiences go! Shanti and I went with them to London and had a lovely girly day visiting the Natural History Museum and eating cakes at the amazing Peggy Porschen's parlour in Belgravia. The next day we squeezed in a lovely visit to my parents and my nana before madly repacking to leave at 6am the next morning!

To be continued...