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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
... unfortunately only saw the rain. We left a day after some of our friends and they hit the muddy path in a downpour and resembled Dr Foster. DOUBLE LOSERS! Overall Nick and I were smitten with this place, and couldn't believe that children didn't see it for the untamed beauty that it was. Who cares if they only had two horse rides and the sandpit closed at 6pm? Nothing could beat going to sleep to the sound of the geese fighting off a persistent fox, with an epic view of the ceiling.
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St Ives Cornwall
... hours away, to arrange a replacement number plate for the one which fell off, but since it required a long journey back to where we were several days ago, I said "no". No problem for now, since we prefer to walk or catch buses here, but tomorrow we drive back to Plymouth, to return the car, and finally sort it out.
Still missing everyone, but I'm home in just a few days now!
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Day 36 - Wedding #2
... all sung hymns along with the church choir, which, naturally, I loved. Being able to emerge out into the sunshine made it all that more magical, accompanied by the church bells that we had seen the bell-ringers practising on before the ceremony started.
In what James and Ash said was typical Christo fashion, a minute-by-minute plan had been drawn up and distributed to anyone involved behind the scenes, and according to that, everyone was to arrive ...