Shun Lee House
Travel Blogs from St Ives
The Scillies, from Myn Tea
I spend my time between the vibrant, happening, cosmopolitan world of Chorlton Manchester and the utter opposite in quiet, yet exciting on a beautiful scale, Tregiffian is a small hamlet to the west of Penzance and above one of my favourite beaches in the world, the simple Gwenver or Gwyner Beach near ...
Update of the challenge
... Austria
23) Dominican Republic
24) Denmark
25) Sweden
26) Northern Ireland.
It's now 26! That's 9 new countries in 11 months. I've been to 12 countries during 2012! That's quite impressive I think.
It means only 4 to go next year.
I am currently planning the Netherlands for the week before my 30th...I am loving this challenge.
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My oh my, Cornwall
... adventure/mischeivousness, including closing my eyes and going back to sleep. By the end of our six days, I'd slept lots and managed over two hours not holding the baby a day. I loved every minute of it. Nick meanwhile had achieved larger bags under his eyes than the one holding the pig feed. LOL!
We clambered over a particularly treacherous path to reach the farmyard dating back to 1912. The walk consisted of 4 metres of square paving stones which you had to negotiate. Nick often ...
St Ives Cornwall
... itself to privacy, accessible only at low tide, along a narrow causeway, waves lapping either side. For our visit gale force winds had been arranged, and on the top of the mount it was strong enough to blow the halo off a saint, and to rattle the stained glass windows and shake the sabres. Back on the mainland, we hopped another bus to the village of Mousehole ( pronounced "moussle"), ...
Day 36 - Wedding #2
... anything. Luckily I had a backup plan, a little festive red number, so as to avoid the creased disaster that is the dress I wore to Deb & Billy's wedding last month as soon as I sit down. It didn't matter anyway, no one would be looking at me! (Except Mitch...maybe...!)
All morning we'd been keeping one eye on the weather outside, which had been fine since we got up and wasn't showing any threat of turning, like it would have in Auckland by ...