I am now in a country I have never visited before - and boy was it windy driving over the Severn Bridge! Took all my concentration to keep in the traffic lane - and then they charged us for entering the country!
Sue and I shared the driving from Helston to Trecco Bay (in Porthcawl) - a total of 240 miles and we did it in around 5 hours - not bad really considering the atrocious weather most of the way. Dartmoor was very dark & brooding with a massive raincloud over it. Luckily we went around to the north of the moor so we missed the worst of it.
Although it seemed as though the weather was playing games with us. We went to Glendurgan gardens just below Falmouth and walked all the way down to Helford Passage and up again, had a cuppa and as we were walking to the car down came the rain. The same happened when we took my friends, who had very kindly put us up in their caravan, out to lunch - it started raining as we left the restaurant!
Glendurgan is a fascinating garden with its laurel maze and lots of aussie plants. We also did St Ives, Land's End (by accident as we missed the turnoff to Mousehole), Minack Theatre, bits of Penzanze and saw St Michael's Mount. Blowing a gale, freezing cold (by aussie standards) but brilliantly sunny.
Today we're off to visit yet another cousin and to check out a waterfall my sis reckons would be a perfect swimming hole for a dragon.
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