The Tregorran
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
... were there by Daddy who couldn't help but fall out when Harry and Joey got in with him at 5 am. How he laughed!!
Days in Cornwall should be as chilled as they come, but my endless restlessness (I have a "do nothing" tolerance of just two seconds thanks to four years of action packed childrearing) resulted in me getting up for sunrise at 5.30am, running to hand Oscar over to Nick so he could get him breakfast (and anyone else in the house - I became the "bed lady") and then finding ...
St Ives Cornwall
... cream.
Last night, back in St Ives, crowds gathered to watch the season's highest tides, with each wind-driven surge lapping ever-closer to the water-front shops and their protective walls of sand-banks and flood-gates, but these were no match for the water, which flowed freely into many properties, especially those with basements. Rubbish bins were washed out to sea, and little ...
Port Isaacs
Every joke i have ever made about the appalling build-quality of French cars has come back to bite me. As we drove down boggy back roads today, in pouring rain, the number plate and its body panel fell off our brand new Peugeot 508 Diesel, causing much inconvenience and many phone calls. It's now lying in a ditch somewhere, run over by a hundred tractors. Now we have an illegal car. We've been in Cornwall for several days, ...