Julia & James at Lynton.

Here's a quick snap of Julia and James sitting outside a shop in Lynton. We visited Lynmouth and parked up before having a wander round. Then took the cliff railway up to Lynton. Out of the two places Lynmouth was the more picturesque I think. The railway is water powered and actually travels fairly quickly. Its been a lovely sunny day and we're just chilling out back at larkstone before having a wander around Ilfracombe. Just waiting for Julia as she's cat napping !

Relaxing at Larkstone.

We arrived at Larkstone just after 3pm after a fairly uneventful journey. The apartment is beautiful and has lovely views looking over the cliffs and harbor. Hopefully if it's dry later we can go explore.

New Smart Phones???

Headed off to Vodafone on Friday after work to re-new Julia's contract and add myself for a couple of brand spanking new smart phones. After much deliberation we had opted for the HTC Sensation for Julia and the Samsung Galaxy S2 for moi. Although I currently have a rolling monthly SIM only contract with Tesco’s I thought it might be time to treat myself to some new technology before I fall too far behind! I've been practising using the QWERTY keypad on Julia's i-touch and am slowly getting to grips with it, she's already used to a touch screen phone but this will be the first time we've had what are deemed "smart" phones so should be pretty damn cool! Think for both of us usage will mainly consist of Facebook updates, email and web browsing so shouldn't be too taxing on the data monthly allowance and both phones have Wi-Fi so can use them at home for free. The Galaxy S2 also came with an offer of a free boxed set of Pirates of the Caribbean so all in all a good deal. Both phones get rave reviews and are at the top end of the smart phone market, Julia just preferred the look and feel of the HTC whilst I thought the Galaxy looked very i-phone-ish.

However having decide to go back to the Savacentre Vodafone it transpired that whilst they had the HTC Sensation in stock they most certainly didn’t have any of the Galaxies for moi :-( I’ve set up my contract, got my SIM and the free DVDs but sadly no new shiny toy for me to play with. I’m on their list for when they come in and hopefully I won’t have to wait too long but the warehouse was only showing ten units and so far I’ve dropped a quick email to Vodafone but am still waiting for a reply. Hope it arrives before we go on holiday, was so looking forward to having it this weekend to play with so my disappointment is quite palpable.