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By lisamartin
August 2nd 2006

Casualty!

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Matt got up and went for a surf fairly early this morning so I went over to Helen's camper for breakfast and spent the morning lounging around there. Meanwhile Matt came back sporting a beautiful black eye! He was complaining of dizziness and double vision so I took him off to the Royal Cornwall Hospital's A&E! After 4 hours, he's fine - just a badly bruised eye and slightly stretched muscles accounting for the double vision. Got back to the campsite and met Matt's parents! Don't think he told them about "us" which tells me something about where this is going...Had [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
August 1st 2006

New arrivals!

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Trevisker farm
Trevisker farm, with the new arrivals camper!

Sunday: still no sign of my keys, so went to the beach with Dave, Matt and Liam. They surfed, I sunbathed (oh ok, I mean I ogled the boys in the wetsuits!) Monday: Keys found! Someone found them hanging on a hook in the toilet block and gave them to Jez to give to me, hurrah!! Sat around on the campsite for a fair while, mostly trying to fend off Charlie who is still persisting in chatting me up. Shame really, if I hadn't got with Matt I would definitely be interested!! In the afternoon a new campervan came on to [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
July 30th 2006

St. Ives and the ever-evasive keys!

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Petey!
I love this picture of Pete!

After having breakfast with Matt I went off to St. Ives for the day - really lovely town! Bought lunch and a new bikini (well, I have someone to look hot for on the beach now!). Went to the Tate St. Ives gallery where I spent ages staring at this one painting by John Holsworthy - it was huge and amazing! They didn't have a postcard of it so I ended up spending an extortionate and regrettable amount of money on a book about him. Ah well. I might sell it on eBay later. Back at the campsite I packed away [View Full Entry]

By Westcornwall met kinderen
July 28th 2006

Van Falmouth --> Mullion

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Buiten regen...

Hier gaan de foto's wel 'n beetje door elkaar. Maar er zijn ook niet zo veele fotos gemakt op die dag. Wat ik me kan herinneren is: het was de ergste dag waar het erg ging regenen. Bedankt trouwens aan Bea en Jost die hun fotos hebben opgestuurt. [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
July 28th 2006

Oops! I did it again

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Got up afte a pretty sleepless night (chavs screeching around the campsite at 5am!) and hung around with the guys for a while then went back to sleep in the sun - didn't really sleep very much and burnt my face t'boot! Got up eventually and decided to go and visit Newquay - what a horrible place!!! Chavs as far as the eye can see! I cheered myself up out of my sleep-deprived mood by doing some shopping - got a dress from a surf shop and a couple of tops. Also checked my emails and got some lunch. Back at [View Full Entry]

By vicky and jim
July 28th 2006

life

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We recently went for an outdoor job and because i am not to good and failed i didnt get it and james did. J decided to turn it down. Now we are looking for more work. To those who think i am holding J back im sorry you think this and i will fix it but i dont believe it would work if we coudlnt see each other for 7 months to me there are more important things in life than jobs and i hope that as people endlessly and so annoyingly hope tell me things should only get better. So [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
July 27th 2006

Love is in the air...

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Another very random but exciting day... Matt came over this morning and asked if I wanted to go to the laundrette, which I did, so we packed up our laundry and went off to Wadebridge. Laundrette was closed for refurbisment! We had lunch at a juice bar and then set off on a grand tour of B&Q's, Focus Do It Alls and other hardware shops to find a chainsaw blade. No I haven't turned into a chainsaw wielding maniac - Matt got sacked from his job at the garage after he skived off following the yert party, so him and Liam [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
July 26th 2006

Still here in Padstow!

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I've pretty much decided on an indefinite stay here as the people I've met here are so great and I'm having so much fun that it would be a huge anti-climax to leave and be on my own again. Plus, Padstow is fairly central-ish so I can still visit all the places I would've done anyway, but just do them as day trips. After a lot of lazing around, I went into Padstow to use the internet in the Tourist Info office, had my first Cornish cornish pasty and generally did nothing in particular. Went to Pete and Paula's van for [View Full Entry]

By Westcornwall met kinderen
July 26th 2006

Van Redruth naar Truro en Falmouth

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Lunchpause St. Agnes

De tweede en derde fietsdag!! [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
July 25th 2006

Trevisker Farm, Padstow

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Sorry I haven't written for a few days - been too eventful!! Left Lakefield at about 10.45am on Sunday morning - checked my bank balance and a direct debit must have come out or something cos I only had £4.01 left, plus a tenner in my purse! Fully prepared to spend the night in a layby on the A39 I didn't even bother looking for a campsite and instead drove to Padstow for a mooch around. Parked a short walk away from the town and walked aound the harbour and then on to the beach where I lazed in glorious sunshine [View Full Entry]

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