Yesterday was the first ever Summer Gathering organised by the Community Media Association. The event was hosted in Melton Mowbray in association with their local community radio station 103 The Eye. Continue reading
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
While at the beach the Sun came out and we got a couple of good hours at the beach – a paddle in the Sea (which Dad thought was freezing), read a couple of chapters of my book as well. Continue reading
I arrived slightly too late for lunch (getting stuck behind a caravan on the A361 delayed my arrival!) so I just grabbed a roll from Tesco. We sat down on the beach for a bit – Mum and I had a paddle in the sea, and we watched the tide coming in (only a couple of hours from high tide). Continue reading
I stayed on Friday night with my cousin Sophie at her house in the North York Moors. The drive from Edinburgh, including a stop at Berwick-upon-Tweed, took about 4 and a half hours – not bad going for a Friday afternoon. Continue reading
Boasting “all the simple ingredients for the perfect break away: Fresh air, sea and countryside, friendly folk, and rich history, Berwick-upon-Tweed is actually closer to Edinburgh than it is to Newcastle. It is also slightly further North than Copenhagen, and the Southern tip of Sweden! Sitting on the English-Scottish border it has passed between England and Scotland a number of times – most recently transferring back to England in 1482. Listening to people on the street, they sounded more Scottish than Geordie to me. Continue reading
The Scottish Parliament building is very impressive, and very modern – especially compared to the Houses of Parliament at Westminster. We had a very knowledgeable guide who not only talked about how the Scottish Parliament works, but also talked about the history of Parliament in Scotland – what lead to Devolution, etc. Continue reading