Blogs from St Austell, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

I remembered the bus going past Mevagissey when visiting Heligan Garden and that Mevagissey harbour looked interesting. We decided to visit there in the morning on 18 September 2018. We took the bus No.24 from the town centre of St Austell in the mid morning. The bus took us to River Street, Mevagissey. As we walked towards harbour, we found numerous interesting shops, e.g. the Cornish Fudge Shop, pottery shop, jewellery shop, a second hand bookshop and fish restaurants, and we popped in some of these shops. The attractive cobbled streets and lanes led us to the harbour. There were a number of colourful fishing boats, water taxies and flat boats mooring on the water. We found the foot ferry which travel between Mevagissey and Fowey. Unfortunately, because of the expected windy weather, the ferry services ... read more

On 27 May we decided to go to Charlestown. Mark told me there were regular buses for Charlestown. The No.24 bus went through the residential areas on the southeast of St Austell calling at Safeway, hospital and hospice. We didn’t have a map of Charlestown, but, as soon as we got off the bus, we found Charlestown road which led us to the harbour. As we walked towards the coast, we found shops selling a wide variety of seashells and accessories and historic buildings including an old chapel with the sign: Wesleyan Methodist Church. Unfortunately, this building seemed to have been neglected as of May 2016. Behind this chapel, I could see a tall chimney, which shape looked similar to the ones we saw along the clay trail previous day. We decided to walk around the ... read more

We visited Eden Project with my mother in 2002 when the site had been open. The former clay pit admittedly showed some empty spaces at that time, but we heard that lots of things had happened since 2002. On 22 May 2016, we took the no.101 bus from St Austell’s town centre. Upon arrival, Mark showed the receptionist the printed combined tickets (with Lost Gardens of Heligan). Apart from distinctive biomes, we didn’t quite remember what the outside gardens were like, but as soon as we stood on the balcony overlooking the site, we found that not only a huge variety of plants were thriving but transport items – land train and sky-wire were running. After taking photos at the terrace off the visitor centre, we headed for the Rainforest Biome. We followed the route surrounded ... read more

We had lovely memories in Cornwall – visiting Eden Project and Lost Gardens of Heligan, walking on the picturesque coastlines – and we decided to stay in St Austell between 21st and 28thMay. Mark was very well-organised – he had booked the train and the B&B hotel, and checked the bus timetables. Arrival at St Austell Upon arrival at St Austell, we found the tourist information in the station and picked up maps and information leaflets. It was raining, so we decided to take a taxi to our hotel, Penwinnick Hotel. The hotel owner, Tim, welcomed us and showed us our room, dining room and drawing room. Our room was facing to the garden and next to the dining room. While resting ourselves at our room, we were reading through the maps and the information leaflets. ... read more

On the second day of our holiday we were itching to get outside after our long car journey the day before. The sun with its omniscient power, must have know it was the first day of our holiday: It's warmth gradually increased, burning the clouds as it rose through the sky. We decided to take a circular walk we found in the very informative brochure in our villa. We set off: Through woodland and stream we walked, hoping to wear Elmo (our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel) out - we had discovered this to be nearly impossible over the last two years. The stream sparkled, thanking the sun for its summer rays. As we walked our stiff post journey legs, mum stopping every second to take a picture, we came to a sign after about a mile ... read more