Our holiday comes to an end in two more days. We fly out on Wednesday night (England time) and arrive home Friday morning (Aus time).
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Cornwall.
Cornwall provided many places of interest, not to mention the delightful B & B we stayed at, Menkee Barns. It was cosy, quiet and very comfortable with wonderful hosts Margo and Robert Kirkwood.
See if you can recognize some of the photos below taken at Port Isaac.
Doc Martin's surgery.
The chemist run by Mrs Tishell in the Doc Martin series.
This bay features in many of Doc Martin's episodes.
On the second day in Cornwall we drove to Padstow, also known as Padstein because the famous chef Rick Stein owns many of the restaurants, cafes, fish and chip shops and a patisserie there. It was absolutely packed with tourists, probably exacerbated by the fact that it was a long weekend to celebrate the Queen's 60th jubilee. I bought a huge meringue from the patisserie...it took me three days to eat it and that was with Dan helping me.
Just one of the cafes we saw that are owned by Rick Stein.
Our third day in Cornwalll involved a visit to a National Trust house called Lanhydrock.
There were people dressed In period costume in the grounds of Lanhydrock enjoying a traditional morning tea. Shortly after this photo was taken it started drizzling rain, but they continued to sit there with umbrellas...
On the west coast of Cornwall we visited the ancient village of Fowey. It had narrow streets and was practically built on the water, but once again it was crowded with hoards of tourists.
Colorful houses in Fowey.
See if you can recognize some of the photos below taken at Port Isaac.
On the second day in Cornwall we drove to Padstow, also known as Padstein because the famous chef Rick Stein owns many of the restaurants, cafes, fish and chip shops and a patisserie there. It was absolutely packed with tourists, probably exacerbated by the fact that it was a long weekend to celebrate the Queen's 60th jubilee. I bought a huge meringue from the patisserie...it took me three days to eat it and that was with Dan helping me.
Our third day in Cornwalll involved a visit to a National Trust house called Lanhydrock.
On the west coast of Cornwall we visited the ancient village of Fowey. It had narrow streets and was practically built on the water, but once again it was crowded with hoards of tourists.
Canal boat trip
Narrow boating on the English canals is wonderful. We cruised the Llangollen canal and also the canal to Ellesmere, traversing two aqueducts, one wind-up bridge, two locks and two tunnels. We had Trina and Bob with us and Bob did most of the driving of the boat which gave Dan and myself time to enjoy the scenery. I would love to spend a whole week on one. We were lucky to have beautiful warm weather.
Bob at the helm with his two navigators.
Crossing the 38 meter high Pontcysyllte Aquaduct.
Dan winding up a walkway bridge.
Our boat in a lock.
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