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Cornwall Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cornwall, United Kingdom
Visiting the Isle and Dave's Birthday
This is a top pick! Arrive back in Chelmsford at Dave's parents (who have just gone to Spain as Jane has manage to collapse her lung again - but is ok now - fingers crossed) to find the patio door wide open. We spend the next 10 mins stalking the house with kitchen ...
Leaving the UK and it began...
This is a top pick! Hey people This is a one stop shop for anyone and everyone to find out what Team Cooper aka Dan & Kat are doing in the four corners of this world. Congratulations on finding this blog site its not going to change your life but it will bring a little ...
The Normandy to Normandy
This is a top pick! · On the train to Caen, Normandy, Northern France · GMT +1:00 hour All aboard So the day of our departure (yesterday) finally arrived and we were diligently dropped at the Rosslare ferry terminal by my parents (thanks again folks). It was a ...
Monday 8 September
This is a top pick! ... am. We were going to see our friends Jo and David who actually live on Torpoint which is across the harbour from Plymouth and is in Cornwall! It was great to see them again after 7 years. They now have 2 children, Max who is 7 and Bel 5. They ...
Saturday 13th September
This is a top pick! After we had all had breakfast we went into Padstow for a look around. Padstow is a small fishing village on the North Cornwall coast and is now home to Rick Stein's food empire. He seems to have taken over the place with his seafood restaurant, ...
The beginning of my World Wide Freeloading
This is a top pick! ... , much loved friends, Matt and Lisa (and their little entourage of Poppy and Jamie). A lovely little holiday home in the pretty little fishing port of Porthleven. It's nice to have friends. It's nicer to have friends with holiday homes in ...
Tuesday 9 September
This is a top pick! ... ; Polperro is a tiny little Cornish fishing village and very pretty. It really reminded me of my childhood holidays in Cornwall. There were three things that I really wanted to have while we were in Cornwall to complete the Cornish ...
Wednesday 10 September, 2008 Plymouth Harbour
This is a top pick! Dave and Jo had arranged for us to go out on a little boat trip around Plymouth Harbour today. Jo has 2 brothers that both own local marinas and one of them had offered the use of his work boat for the afternoon. We met Dave at about 11am, ...
Friday 5 September
This is a top pick! Friday 5th September We spent the morning getting organised and the washing done before heading over to see Steve's friend Carl who was the best man at our wedding. He and Katherine now live in Orpington with their 3 children - Erin who is 9, ...
Sunday 14th September
This is a top pick! The sun was shining today and so we decided to go to the beach! It was not hot enough really to sunbathe and swim but certainly nice enough for a walk and a sit on the sand. We drove to Constantine Bay which is only a few miles from St Issey. There were ...
Thursday 11th September
This is a top pick! The weather was much much better today and we decided to go for a really long walk once the kids had done some school work. The schoolwork is proving to be getting harder and harder for Holly and Zach who struggle to concentrate and have to be pushed to ...
Friday 12th September
This is a top pick! ... most of. We said our sad goodbyes to them around 11am and set off on the next part of the journey across northern Cornwall to Padstow. We had a I hour trip to the Village where Steve’s friend Mark had a house. The village is called St ...
To Cornwall for New Year
Fortunate to spent New Year with our daughter, Liz, and son-in-law, Matt in Polruan, ...
Tintagel and Boscastle
We started today by going to Boscastle, but the parking problem seems to be following us. As we Couldn’t get parked we headed to Tintagel instead. After a little walk around the shops, Carol & Anna walked up to what they described as the ...
Taking stock
That's it! I have had it! Things need to change! These are the three key thoughts getting me to this point. Without delving into specifics, its enough to say that I have cut some ties (sold house: quit job) made some long term plans ...
Internet, Bank and Healey's
We awoke to another grey morning, but the drizzle had stopped, for at least the time being and by 8.30am the sun way trying to make a breakthrough. After having bought a ‘3 Dongle’ from Tesco on Saturday to enable me to get on-line I thought ...
Flora, fauna and a grumpy camp site owner
Early get up for Julia, who wanted to profit from having the possibility of a bathroom session after 5 days. At 8h30 we go down for breakfast. Jan gets the real English one with bacon and sausage and can't finish the huge amount. Julia gets porridge - ...
You May Kiss Me!
Back in England, we drove home, stopping once at a service station so bland I can't remember where it was. We had food and drove some more. Eventually, we got home and dropped Mum off. Her cat was very glad to see her, as was ours, when we got in. He ...
Newquay to Launceston
The day has dawned bright but there are some clouds about. To be honest, that's not a bad thing. Even we Aussies have had to watch the sun in the last couple of days. You can understand the preoccupation of the UK people with the weather, as ...
Back again...
This is a top pick! I had done alot of driving over the past few days and needed a chance to stop and recharge... we were still close to the surf beaches of Newquay and ofcourse I was keen for another surf so we headed there for the night and have a surf in the morning. It ...
A Base In the South-West (Bodmin)
... so (although it would have been the plan what ever the weather) i was off to the Eden project, it was my last full day in cornwall before heading home. To read more about this see the blog entry A cornish adventure Pt4 - Eden Project. Athough it is only a ...
Tintagel and a Recent Update (Nathan)
After a complimentary (and fairly terrible) full English breakfast at our B&B, we started a long journey of bus rides. Even though we weren't traveling all that far, it ended up taking most of the day because we had to switch buses three or four ...
Recuperating in Cornwall for a bit...
went home for a month. Cousins wedding and my dad's 60th Birthday. All ...
700 quid, 14000 miles, 7 days of Jetlag. Why?????
My Brother's wedding. Thats why........ more to ...
Surfs Up Dude!!
This is a top pick! We made out of the paddock without getting bogged, Phew!! Checked the internet last night and the surf looks like it will be good for the next 2 days. So our mission today is to get me some waves. So we hug the coast but the swell is not big enough ...
I have done it!
Day 10....... Finish line at 3pm. Today feels like it didn't really count. We are only 35 miles away and waiting for wellwishers to arrive to give us the heros' welcome my legs feel like they deserve. The best breakfast ever ...
A wet day
... ;scattered showers tomorrow and then sunny for 2 or 3 days, so with a bit of luck I can finish the job tomorrow. Cornwall is a beautiful county, but unlike the Yorkshire Moors and Dales it shines when the sun shines. Open land like ...
Penzance to Lands End & return
The first leg of our journey is a loop out to Lands End and back to Penzance. To see more of the area, we cross to the other side of the peninsula to Pendeen and then via St Just and Sennan before finally arriving at Lands End. We know from our ...
hello again from England
Hi, sorry haven't updated for a while, having too much of a good time. Anyway, right now we are in Santorini but I thought I had better update our England leg first before I start on Santorini. As I said before we have been having a ...