Pendeen 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 ...

... but coming back is the hard part after running for 40 min already.

But what we discoverd on our run is a quaint and picturesque little place worthy of a much closer inspection than a run by allows.

However, that would have to wait till tomorrow as it was sunset by the time we made it back up the hill to the van and we had champers to drink. Why? What is the special occasion? Well, we're on holidays of course so why the hell not!!

... to fill the holes in our stomaches we decide that Newquay is the best bet.

We arrive at about 10am and the find a spot with views from the south to north of Fistral beach. The tides just starting to come in and the waves are head high without a breath of wind... bliss!!!

I can't get into my wetsuit quick ...

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 ...

... be emulating their missionary objective, but no doubt a journey from France, Irland or Wales was considered long distance way back when.

So it's from here that we set off, heading east but stopping at the Capability Brown landscaped Dyrham Park near Bath to say a final goodbye to my parents before dropping the ...

... make a start on today's as I am already here.

I woke this morning to the sun shining through the roof light......... Hurray!!!!

I was outside drinking my morning cuppa at 7.30 am to the sound of Gracie Fields "We'll meet again" How wonderful!! I have no idea where it was coming from as it looked as all those around me were still sleeping.....further investigating needed.

Today another relaxing day for me I think............. and people watching
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... pass which allows you to walk among the stones instead of along the circular path that is nearly as far away as the road is.

... least the Hyundai appears to fit into the funky style of car and with the basic red (refused to pay for metallic when there seemed to be no neglible difference) and air conditioning which I am far too tight to use. Anyway I digress.........
The motorhome:
We thought £15000 would sort us out with a relatively nice van still with loads of life left in it and reasonable mileage. The father in law has been motorhoming for about 20 years so we had good advice from ...

... have a hot chocolate while we wait, big delays though due to the lightening striking the train signals! Arrive in Bath and its dark already so just head to our B and B. Sa************** into Bath for a day of looking around, we do all the tourist things and go to the Roman Baths and spend a few hours there listening to our headsets! The weather isn't very nice again and it starts to rain, which doesn't make us want to have too much of a look ...