Blogs from Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 5

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

Good news yesterday - Bernie's x-ray was clear. The pesky pneumonia has gone. We celebrated in style with cake in the garden followed by a beautiful walk on Trebarwith Strand with Jeffers. It is such a relief for both of us. Bernie has been worrying and I have obviously been concerned too. Now the preparations start to get ready for the trip. The plan is to leave on Wednesday and travel to Harwich over two days. We will stop in the ferry port overnight before catching the early morning ferry and arriving in Holland on Friday late afternoon. The only fixed item on the agenda is Stockholm - we are booked in at a campsite from Wednesday 30th May to Sunday 3rd June. Stockholm marathon is on Saturday 2nd June so all the training will hopefully ... read more

The rain had stopped in Beesands this morning, so we could see it was a one street town (and only one side of the street has bulidings, because the other side is the ocean (English Channel). At least the rain washed most of the mud off the car, but had to go back on those roads to get out of the place. Had a chat to a local and found a better way, but couldn't avoid them entirely. So headed off to Cornwall, via Plymouth (because that's where some old ships left from, the Mayflower, Captain Cook etc), and via Truro (something to do with Maurice's family history and cornish pasties) and finally to Marazion. We are staying at the Godolphin Arms, a pub directly across from St Michaels Mount. This is a tidal island which ... read more

St. Ives, Cornwall, home of Poldark, Rebecca, and the Pirates of Penzance The train to St. Ives from Bathe involved more than one change...each one successfully completed... and one change included a downpour on metal roof at the Exeter station. Now that I am back in Canada I can safely say that I encountered only sunshine, dull to drab or drizzle weather for the whole of my seventy day wander thru the UK. Out of the train and a search for the path to the hotel begins. Up the road past long term parking, over the rise, past the local bus terminal ( actually just a big parking-lot space for the buses to turn around and begin their return journey from where ever they came from) down a curved hill past a church, a tall scaffolding ... read more

Today we set off- again with sunshine- to go to Tintagel. This is where the castle of King Arthur is supposed to have been. When we reached the village of Tintagel, it was our now familiar activity to find the parking area and pay and display. The village is at the top of a cliff, as is the ruined castle. You just need to walk down to the sea and then back up to the castle! Getting out of the car we found it was quite windy, and the wind was very cold. (Lucky the down jackets were in the car). We walked down to the beach, where we saw a number of caves, and then walked up many stairs to the headland where the ruins of the castle can be seen. In the ruins there ... read more