Polperro

Thursday 1st July

Today was the highly recommended trip to Polperro in Corwall. Thank you Margaret and Patrick!!! We had an absolutely fabulous day. Kay - if you're reading this nip 'round to Margaret and Pat's place and settle the argument - the horsedrawn carriage is on wheels, not rails. :-)

You can't drive down into the village unless you live there or your accommodation has a permit for parking with it, but there are places down nearer to the harbour and beach where you'd be lucky to get a bicycle, let alone a car!


This waterwheel was one of the first things we saw from the carriage on the way down - I keep getting carried away with the "charm" of it all, but I'm sick of that word.

Bev, if you're feeling better, or Cate S if you're watching can you Please, Please, Please send me some words that are alternatives to Charming and Quaint. Next time I travel I'm taking a pocket thesaurus!!


I think this cave might be a smugglers cave, or maybe it's where the pirate that Poppy Ray met the other day was keeping his treasure?

I felt like I was on the set of 'Doc Martin' for most of the day. Narrow lanes, bordered by white painted cottages, with low doors and flower boxes on the window sills................. and views of yet more white cottages dotted up the cliff sides.
Everywhere is "dog-friendly" as well and the company that does boat rides around the harbour has a sign that says "nice dogs and happy babies go free".

Ray fulfilled another food goal by having a Cornish Pastie in Cornwall. I think we've missed the Devonshire Tea in Devon, but we had one yesterday in Cornwall, so that will have to do!

Although it was overcast all day, it didn't actually start to rain until we were headed back up the hill to the car park.

I know there is a market for kangaroo scrotums that are made into little coin pouches and sold to tourists in Australia, but who know there was a market in Roo Poo - go figure - or as Jai would say - What the ???????. We actually have no idea what this label is - from outside the shop it would appear to be a clothing label, but we didn't go in to check.

We finished the day by heading into Plymouth - not for sightseeing as although the whole Mayflower and Francis Drake thing may have been interesting, for us being the American connection it would have been less so than other things. No - our trip into Plymouth was for a boring domestic interruption to our holiday - we need to do our washing. The laundrette in the village nearby to our accommodation recently had a fire, so we figured we'd gove Plymouth a go......... More than a slight error in judgement!!

Somewhere along the way - actually more than once - I got a taste of one of those bloody humungous roundabouts with a thousand lanes and two thousand other cars.............. suffice to say these will be avoided at all costs in future. Still the clothes are clean!!!