Falcon Hotel Bude

... we nevertheless enjoyed a stroll around the steep streets of the town and after a drink at the Golden Lion decided on "The Old School House", built in 1875, for our room for the night. After passing the religous studies room we were ushered into the english room with commanding views over the fishing boats in the harbour. Looking forward to sampling some of the local seafood tonight.

Today we went on a day trip to Tintagel and Newquay.

Tintagel Castle (now the ruins of) is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur, and lies on an exposed headland on the north side of the Cornwall peninsula. There is a lot of history there; some findings suggest that it was occupied as long ago as 200-300AD! There is a ...

It was a shopping and driving day today. We went for a bit of an impromptu tour around the Bodmin Moor area (didn't see the beast unfortunately) and then went to a big department store called Trago Mills where I bought a big road map for when I get a job driving around Europe.

Not much else to report for today, but we did see a cool scooter with thousands of mirrors and a tail!

For my next trip I was off to Cornwall in the South West for a week with my Nan, aunties Jeanette and Marion and uncle Roland. We stayed at Lakeview Villas, about a 5 minute drive out of Liskeard.

Today we drove down from London, and aside from a bit of a holdup at Bath, it was a smooth drive down.

It was getting late after all our super day of sightseeing. The plan was to spend the night in a caravan park somewhere by the ocean, and fill up the water in the van, have a hot shower and relax.

The park we were set on was to our uneducated ears, expensive at £22, after all, we are only parking on their land and using a few of their facilities... and we are on a ...

Left Totnes and Wayne & Julia on Friday to cross Dartmoor on our way to Lona's ancestrial home at Bideford in North Devon. Interesting trip, we found Haytor, probably the highest point on the moor. Typical local council, they put the carpark alongside the road and make your climb best part of a mile up on to the high point. Not fit enough for that caper but we made it. After that we stopped at the ...

... never seen such a fast collection of rubber gloves. Huge big red heavyweight ones that are so stiff they can hardly move their hands, blue and white disposable ones and marigolds, i am yet to see they type with fur around cuffs........ But I wont give up hope of spotting them.

The weather was beautiful all day.

I never did find the chicken yesterday so had pasta, but tomorrow I will hunt the chicken!!!!

SATURDAY.

Tho ught I might as ...

... 8211; the Hertmitage took two half days visits – it’s huge. Food in Russia was great .. lots of hearty food .. we found we particularly liked Georgian cuisine.

Now we’re having some down time in Devon for a week before we hit the road again and spend a couple of weeks seeing the scenery in the UK – fingers crossed the weather improves!

... feed the chickens grass. We took the long way to Camelford to pick up dinner, past an old clay mining area, through a field of cows who didn't take kindly to the loud moo-ing from inside our car. highly ...

... the horns and bring our retirement plans forward by several years. Of course we are still a little defeated by what we can and cant do at the moment because of Dee's recovery but hey we will get there in the end.

We did a lot of research into motor homes and traveling and then went in search of a motor home which would be suitable for our uses and we bought our Compass Castaway ...