Thursday 21
Plymouth appeared to have a very nice waterfront, reminding me in parts of Wellington until the nice coast path ended with a big fence and barbed wire meaning I had to retrace my steps and start again. Eventually I got to The Hoe, a nice promenade with steps into the water and green on the hill with a massive war memorial monument with the names of thousands of soldiers inscribed.
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| Plymouth waterfront |
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| Plymouth harbour |
First I took a turn around the ample gardens,
then ordered the kitchen staff to make me lunch. They were a bit rubbish as they just kept taking photos, they were fired.
I like a lot of vegetables.
Eventually I was able to sit down for lunch with all my imaginary friends,
after lunch I had a game of chess,
and read a few books.
By which time it was time for high tea,
sent for my luggage to be retrieved
and then went to bed.
My bed was a bit further away from the rest of the house, on the other side of St Austell at Pleasant Streams Campsite, another wonderful camp ground without the RV's and caravans. Basic facilities but a beautiful setting around a big pond with a little row boat in for campers use and little goats, hens and chicks and all sorts of poultry clucking and burbling away living a charmed existence, and no they don't eat the hens. Up with my Eureka Spitfire Solo and Bluey got to rest his wheels on nice soft flat grass.
Friday 22
Tim Smit the guy who transformed an old clay mining pit into the Eden Project was also involved with restoring the lost gardens of Heligan. I spent quite a long time there, it's wonderful, so wonderful I don't know how to sum it up. After Heligan I drove down to Lizard point and had a walk along the coastal cliffs and then drove on to my stop for 3 nights at Helston.
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| Lost Gardens of Heligan |
Saturday 23
A few years ago I drove to Lands End from Sussex because I wanted to see Lands End, it was getting dark by the time I got there and having left on a whim at 1.30 in the afternoon so I stayed in the car in a field outside Penzance because it was 10 at night as I hadn't booked any accommodation. So this time I didn't go to Lands End but to Lavant mine nearby and walked to Boltallack down the coastal path. Lavant mine itself was shut today but there were plenty of old bits of buildings to poke around, the path to Boltallack doubles back on itself towards to some big towers on the edge of the cliffs. Past the first tower the path gets small and narrow and the second tower is down a rock scramble with metal handles which is quite exciting. It was a nice quiet place to sit and have lunch watching if anyone would climb down, a few did, after lunch I climbed back up and around the corner to the end of the path, you can't go any further. Instead of going back the way I came I scrabbled up the cliff back to the coastal path just for fun and then back to Lavant, on the way I help a German walker with a large backpack down a tricky section of path. Back at the car park I was surprised how far some people had walked, the occupants of SUV next to Bluey had walked as far as the boot of their car before setting up their picnic rugs.
I headed on to the Minack Theater, a wonderful little Greek style open air theater on the cliff edge next to a lovely and popular bay, its £4.50 entry. They put on real shows and while I was there a group in matching blue t shirts were rehearsing a play, I watched them for a hour before driving back through Penzance where I bought a bottle of white wine from the supermarket, it was disgusting.
In my room was a TV and an en-suite which is quite a luxury, so I watched the end of Toy Story, 1 month post Brexit debate where nothing really was said and still nobody knew anything and Midsummer Murders in which a well off old boy who had scammed a few people out of a lot of money into buying fake wine was murdered by having wine bottle thrown at him whilst his not particularly loving wife looked on.
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| Botallack |
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| My airbnb |
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