Wednesday morning, 16-10-24, and a lodge tour. Photo heavy alert!

 Good morning.  As usual, I have been up since stupid o'clock and it's still dark and very quiet.  I do love my mornings.

I tried to video a tour of the lodge but it was total pants so it's photos!

Our designated parking place.  Because it is an adapted lodge, there's parking at the front rather than having to take the cars back to the car park and drive around for ages trying to find a slot that has something close by to help you remember where it is (it's an awfully big car park!).

I wasn't sure if I could park there and asked a nearby cleaning lady who said basically 'no idea but give it a go and see'

Yesterday morning there were 'please move your car' signs on both.  Obviously that wasn't right because it was designated parking and Beth should have been OK, it was my car we weren't sure about so we went to the office to check and, as always, they were super-helpful.  Yes, it was fine for us both.  After a long day, the staff have to go all round 'mopping up' cars that hadn't been returned to the car park, it was dark, they were tired, and they probably didn't see the sign saying it was a designated slot.  She took our lodge number and said she would sort it out - and she did.

It will be so good on the last day not to have to trundle off to collect the cars in order to pack.

The path to our lodge - it's the furthest away and on the right lodge.

In through the front door and directly left, there's the excellent wet room.  It's really spacious with a good shower.

Next to the wet room is a useful little space where Beth parks the Tiger.

The sitting room areas, one way . . .

. . . and the other.  Very comfy chairs.  I'm standing just in front of the fireplace to take this photo.

The kitchen area is more roomy than the usual kitchen at CP which is pretty much a galley.  It is a good size for a wheelchair and you can see a lower working surface if needed.

And - for the first time - there's empty cupboard space for one's food, etc.  It always bugs me how these self catering places don't have an empty cupboard for food - neither of the cottages in Southwold had space and I've not known CP lodges to either - until this one.

A small bathroom with a big bath that takes for ever to fill!

We don't bother.

And my bedroom.  It is the adapted one so very roomy.

My bed is the one you can see a bit of at the front.  The other is the all singing, all dancing bed that goes up, down, sits you up, lies you down - one wonders if it would make the morning coffee for you if you asked it to!!

It didn't seem 'right' to use that bed.

This is the back.  You can just see the patio that has table and chairs plus a bbq stand for those single-use barbies.

Walk down that little path and you get to . . .

. . . this.  On a dull day it looks a bit boring but when the sun shines I am sure it is beautiful.

We haven't seen as much of the muntjacs as last year but the water fowl come a-tapping on the window every morning - Canadian geese, pigeons, of course, snipe I think), the usual ducks . . .

Lots of squirrels too.

You're not supposed to feed them but, obviously, people do judging by their behaviour . . . 

We have decided that if we come back again (and I bet we will), it's worth the extra fee to request this lodge again.  Close to the centre, roomy, comfortable and no issues with Beth's wheelchair.  And that parking . . .

So this is our home for a few days.  Lucky us.

Have a great day, everyone.  xx