Bosham Walk

Last week was half term here, and as I mentioned in an earlier post, we spent most of the week out and about, so I thought I would share some photos with you from one of our days out. I do hope to share the other days with you as I go along.

On Bank Holiday Monday, we took the girls, my parents and my niece to a little town called Bosham. I had heard how beautiful it was there and was interested to see for myself.

The town sits upon a river and people are allowed to park there cars right by the river at low tide. However, when high tide comes in you need to move your car. As you can see from the picture below, someone forgot about high tides. Apparently when the owner of the car turned up, he was greeted by loud cheers from everyone watching. This is quite a common past time for residents of Bosham, who enjoy nothing more than watching people forgetting to move their cars!

The village has a little indoor shopping outlet which houses seventeen little shops. Here is a picture of my dad admiring the clocks. I fell in love with the Parisian one above his head.

On the upper floor of the shopping outlet I fell in love with two shops. Firstly, a scrapping shop which had lots of different styles of paper. Secondly, a bead store which is pictured below. This shop had beads of every style and they were all separated by colour. It made me want to make my own jewellery.

We has a walk around the village and we were quite taken by it. It reminded me a lot of Clovelly in Devon which is privately owned. Hubby looked up the prices of the houses when we got home and was gutted to find that a three bedroom terraced house would cost up to £750,000. So I won't be moving to Bosham in the near future.

However, I did want this beautiful newly built thatched house. I just love thatched houses, even though I know they are not practical to live in. As I understand it, you have to replace the roof every 2o years and that does not come cheap.

This stream running down to the river, created lots of mischief amongst the visitors to the village. Everyone was lining up to have a go at swinging across the stream. The girls were desperate to have a go, but I stopped them, being a practical mother as I am. They would have been soaking wet.

The weather was a bit iffy that day, but it didn't stop people turning up armed with picnics and blankets. Definitely a place to take the girls back to in the summer.

My mum really enjoyed the visit and actually went back again this week. Here she is with one of my girlies.

Here is one of the houses right on the water. The room by the wall is a dining room overlooking the water. Oh how the other half live!!

We all really enjoyed our day trip to Bosham and it will definitely be a place I will visit again.

In the meantime, I am off to check my lottery ticket to see if I can afford one of those lovely houses. Wish me luck!