I stuck an hour on the car and we went for a short walk, stopping for a hot chocolate. The tide had not long started to go out so Mum and I went for a paddle on the beach – last sight of the sea for a while. Continue reading
While we’re staying here on the Devon/Cornwall border, we are staying at Weekstone Farm, just outside Holsworthy. Continue reading
Afterwards we drove to Morwenstow – the highlight of our day, a Cornish cream tea at the Rectory Tea Rooms. A lovely setting for a Cornish cream tea; the smell of fresh baked food hits you when you enter the building, a very traditional looking farm house. From where I was sitting I could look straight in to the farm house kitchen, watching freshly baked scones coming out of the oven. Continue reading
Bodmin Moor has always carried a certain mystery. With its windswept landscape, old coaching inns, tales of smugglers and stories of strange creatures said to roam the moor, it is one of those parts of Cornwall where history and folklore seem to sit side by side. So for today, a visit to Bodmin Jail and Jamaica Inn felt like a good way to explore that darker, more atmospheric side of Kernow. Continue reading