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Magical moments and a great musical.
Today was another great day to be on holiday. After breakfast we spent a few hours in patchy sunshine fully exploring Port Isaac. Up and down the village's hills, in and out of lane ways, walkways, while taking lots of photos at every viewpoint. We saw it all reading a local guide as we went.
Found "The Entry" ('Squeeze-ee-belly Alley') the Guinness Book Of Records lists as the narrowest public thoroughfare in the world being just 45cm wide. Every cottage has its own ...
The sun shines and a touring we will go.
... harbour. We had to drive through some cold climate rainforest and got the feeling this is 'hill billy' territory of the first order. Small steams running strongly after recent rain and the road surface was muddy, greasy and challenging.
Pleased to be back onto somewhat wider roads in another attempt to reach St Ives but again balked at the necessity to negotiate the stressful lanes in city traffic and so ended up grabbing a few photos ...
Venturing further afield.
Today we set out on a longer journey and ended up travelling over 250km over 8 hours. Initially we headed for Truro city. Bought tickets for a musical matinee for Thursday afternoon and then walked a little around the centre of the city. Cheryl was impressed with Lakeland kitchenwares and bought a set of cutting tools for making ginger bread houses. We shared another great Cornish pasty while walkimg past the Town Hall and Cathederal.
Drove ...
Rain, rain go away!
... 00 so deciced to head home and come back for a meal another day.
Back home to Port Isaac at about 17.00 after a round trip of about 30 miles ( 50km).
Cheryl cooked chicken casserole, we had a drink and did some internet searches for future plans and tomorrow's activities. Weather forecast is better but not wonderful.
Enjoyed two episodes of Doc Martin on ITV - could work out the filming location of many sceens and will be on the look out for others. ...
Picture Perfect Polperro
... it for ‘next time’. . . . back into the GBHS . . . and off to the resort town of Penzance. Not the weather to be visiting a resort town but we could see through the grey that this is a nice place to spend some time – not the town centre which is filled with, well, shops. The real highlight of this visit though was Penlee House (gallery, museum, gardens). Someone on a forum somewhere described this as the best regional gallery in England. We can ...
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