Thursday we finished work early and headed out to Stansted airport to catch a plane to Newquay, which is a beachy town in Cornwall. Only took us an hour to fly but those catching the coach or train had to deal with 6 hours of travel. Newquay is gorgeous, you could compare it to the Mount or Whangamata, mainly because of the massive increase in population in summer and basically every shop is either a surf shop, souvenir shop or a restaurant/bar.
We had a group of 6, Niki & I, two of our flatmates Hilary & Nick and his mate Roz, and Tarns (cousin of the Riddingtons). We had found the trip in the TNT Magazine, which is a publication put out for free aimed at Aussies, Kiwis & Saffas. There were 180 people there with the TNT group, and they'd planned a surfing comp (which got cancelled cos no waves!) and had beach volleyball, a DJ etc set up on the beach. We had fully equipped 3-bedroom caravan, with kitchen, lounge and bathroom. They ran a coach from the holiday park down to the beach and back again and then down to the clubs and back at night. 
We had a great time, Friday was especially awesome weather. Niki, Nick & Hilary even braved a swim in the ocean on Saturday. I escaped hangovers the whole weekend... YAY! Must be getting more sesnsible in my old age! Saturday night was a bit special cos the others had secretly bought me a birthday cake! aww so in the middle of "circle of death" (drinking game) out Roz came with my cake (even had candles!) .
Sunday we left at 4pm and took the train home...not the best way to spend a birthday but the weekend had been awesome so no worries!
Thanks to everyone for all the birthday cards, texts, gifts, e-mails etc. I truly appreciate everyone's thoughts and felt very special and loved...I should go away more often huh! =)
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