Longbeach Hotel Newquay

We woke to a lovely sun rise, so it was out for a morning run and a few photos of the wonderful views before making our way over the causeway to St Michael's. The castle and grounds don't open till 10am, but you can only walk over the causeway at low tide. We scored the tide so we had until 12.30pm to see the castle and be able to walk back otherwise it would be underwater and the return would have to be by boat...if it was running.

Marazion, England, United Kingdom darrenhough74

We spent the morning wandering around St Ives.

It is a beautiful village full of art gallaries and narrow streets.

All the walking around made us hungry.

How could I pass up the opportunity for a hearty Beef and Stilton Pasty.

Kim equally splurged on Cornish Cream Scones and coffee ...

... 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 ...

... ice rink in the winter, concerts in the spring, and this summer was home to shelter and mini-raft building projects ...

... do a scrappage deal on the old 106 and buy a motorhome.
Hyundai i10 was the way we went with the car. Decision being made based upon price and mileage to the gallon and comparing it to the Kia (slightly cheaper) it was far more professionally finished and the Panda was the only other real contender but we already have one on the driveway and although I cant put my finger on it I just dont like it. It seems to be a bit of a charachterless box on ballbearings ...

... Zealander one of Chris's friends, and it was a huge house, 4 bedroom, 800 cows and we even had our own room to stay in! Once we got organised we jumped back in the car to head to Polze? to see Sally (Chris's girlfriend), and arranged to met Bev and Mel for tea - who also happened to be in Newquay for the weekend as well! So we headed to the beach and spent the afternoon talking and mucking around in the almost sun, George and Emma also came ...