Meadow View Cottage
Travel Blogs from Launceston
Magical moments and a great musical.
... identified most used Doc Martin llcarions over the week. This morning we finished with a visit to Mrs Tyshell's Chemist which is in fact a sweets shop when not a Doc Martin location. Chatted with the owner (Mike Meakins) who shared quite a lot about how the village changes when filming is underway. There are a number of Doc Martin references, stickers and posters in the shop.Mike tells us it takes 7 hrs to transform his shop into a chemist and then they shoot all required ...
The sun shines and a touring we will go.
... harbour. We had to drive through some cold climate rainforest and got the feeling this is 'hill billy' territory of the first order. Small steams running strongly after recent rain and the road surface was muddy, greasy and challenging.
Pleased to be back onto somewhat wider roads in another attempt to reach St Ives but again balked at the necessity to negotiate the stressful lanes in city traffic and so ended up grabbing a few photos ...
Venturing further afield.
... up a similarly narrow and steep hill until we inevitably came across some poor bugger wanting to go the other way. Thankfully he reversed uphill as I had another car behind me and we passed allowing us to escape. That was Polperro and we will leave them to it! Had we better light we might have tried again - walkkmg down into the village but that was beyond us at this late hour.
Dark 17.00) as we began to make our way home via Bodmin and Wadebrige. ...
Rain, rain go away!
... Saw the usual array of farm animals and flocks of swallows sitting huddled together on powerlines in various locations. On to New Polzeath which had a great outlook overlooking the ocean with big waves rollong in towards a sandy beach. Some surfers in the water here. Through Polzeath and noted that many properties would be quite expensive - indications of wealth in this seaside area. Impressed with a local golf club that seemed somewhat exclusive - ...
Picture Perfect Polperro
... PPP for the last time (on this trip).
Well, we’re just back from the Blue Peter. A couple of ales each (Pinot Grigio for Kathy). Met and talked to any number of friendly pubbers (just like us) and had another gargantuan feed. Mind you Kathy only had the fish cake starter but even that coupled with some of Brendan’s fish and chips was large. The weather today turned out far better than expected. A couple of brief showers but lots of warm ...
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