Beaconsfield Newquay

... the housekeeper to do the honours by showing them around. Don't think this would happen these days...

The island is twined with Saint Mont Michel in Normandy in France. It is a similar island set up just off the coast which can be reached via a causeway at low tide. We are headed there very soon...

The castle gardens were nice but not breath taking by any means. However, they did offer fantastic views of the castle from ...

... YUM!!!

To work that off we took the long way back to our van via the coastal nature walk. Although still warm the clouds started to close in which seemed quite appropriate fo the scene.

We we got back to the van it started drizzling with rain. It continued off and on for the rest of the day.

... holidays.

Time to continue our tour south, so we drive down to St Ives - a lovley harbour village. We splurge out on our first real Caravan Park.

After hooking up to the electricity we stuck a bottle of bubbles in the fridge. Then head out for a run around the town. Our caravan park is situated on a headland ontop of a hill overlooking the village. Great for the view but quite steep getting back from town. Down is ofcuorse always ...

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 for the spots we pass to get going, so after grabbing a pasty and a ...

... fill the water tank up. Which we duely did and fired up the boiler for our first hot shower in the van. Apart from being a little cosy in there it worked like a dream. Being the only van in the padock had it's advantages... we could pick the best (flatest) spot and enjoy the peace and quite and a beautiful sunset as well as the light show which is the country night sky.

... our bags on the Eurostar forced a re-pack in Brussels under the mantra - this is nice to have, but would I carry it around the World? We cut down by about 25% in weight but still have enough medical supplies to cover any trauma I've had in my life thus far... so touch wood we're still well covered on that front ...

Arrived at Looe yesterday in blazing sunshine, very nice site here and can get digital TV so Dee pleased about that, didn't have to miss Jeramey Kyle this morning!!



There seems to be a lot of wrinklies here, they are everywhere, short, tall, small, medium and large. I think there might be a wrinkly convention and they forgot to tell us, or maybe they think we are wrinklies, who knows.

So that begs the question, what do you have to do/be to ...

... quarry has been converted into extraordinary gardens, with oversized sculptures, and large biomes which house a ...

... d Gurkha, a Nepalese/Indian restaurant on the main street. yum! Only got a short visit that night with T&V since they spent most of their day at the hospital taking care of her horse-induced injury. ouch!

... and the mother in law put her two pennies in as well and I would love to say how much I appreciated that.
Ebay was the place to start and we went and had a look at an M reg van just down teh road for £12750 with 6,000 miles on the clock but it had gaslow and 130 watts of solar power on the roof with a huge top box. Suitably impressed we thought about it but it was our first van and the mortgage wasnt even applied for. Needless to say we got ideas from this ...