A Greyhound At "The Greyhound" - Dorset #1

Hello friends! Welcome to the first post of my Dorset mini-series! Get ready for a fortnight of pictures and posts in which I will attempt to do my summer holiday justice. Here's hoping that the holiday will be good, I'll remember to post every day, and that the cottage we're staying at has wifi (fingers crossed). Thank you for deciding to join me on this little adventure - I can't tell you how much this means to me!

Saturday 2nd of August was officially D-Day. Dorset Day.

At the crack of dawn, my family hopped in the car and began our long car journey down to Dorset. When I say 'crack of dawn', I mean about 9:30am, and when I say 'hopped', I mean struggled to stuff the suitcases in the car boot and attempted to attach a harness to Dusty (the family dog). So really, you should ignore the above sentence, because it isn't really an accurate depiction of our preparations for the car journey. I made it sound a lot more casual than it actually was...

The car journey was fairly successful. I spent the majority of it with Dusty sprawled all over me, watching the countryside and listening to music. Bliss. Dusty couldn't have been better behaved - she's always been a very convenient dog and she wasted no time in getting comfortable in the car (see below).

See what I mean?

The weather was a bit questionable to begin with - the grey clouds and rain showers didn't bode well, but they soon cleared up, and although the weather wasn't anything to write home about, it was more than reasonable weather for travelling.

The weather in the morning - bleurgh...

After the journey, we arrived at the house to get settled in. (I get to stay in the most darling room at the west side of the house.) Here's my mini room tour...

We then headed out for dinner at a pub not five minutes' walk away from the house which was called, funnily enough, "The Greyhound" (in case you didn't know, my dog Dusty is a greyhound). We thought the combination of the pub's location and its name made it a perfect place to visit on our first night, and it proved to be a good choice, as the food was delicious. I had a Hunter's Chicken and then Lemon and Raspberry Posset - mmm!

I write this post from my bed, exhausted but excited, and filled with anticipation for tomorrow.

I'll see you then!

Olivia x

Check back tomorrow for Dorset #2!