Cornwall in February

We had a nightmare journey to the Station, every road seemed to be jammed for some reason on Monday morning, but got there with minutes to spare, only to discover the train was ten minutes late! After our stressful start we settled down to a very pleasant journey with the sun shining. That was almost the last we saw of the sunshine, the rest of the week was cloudy and showery with a bit of sunshine here and there.

However undaunted we found the B&B, right by the train and bus stations which was ideal for us. During the week, we visited the Eden Project near St Austell, recommend it out of season, we saw a film of the summer madness, some days they have to put announcements on the radio to ask people to stop going there. It was good though, one dome was like being in Thailand again and the other Spain. They are improving the place all the time since it opened about 6 years ago.





We went to St Ives by bus and saw Portmeor beach with nobody on it! It's not flat this time of year either, the wind has created a sand dune effect, which they must level off for the season. All the places you can't get into in the summer overlooking the harbour were empty so we had the pick of seats. Bit too chilly to sit outside the Sloop but some people braved it.

We also went to Falmouth by train (and bus as we missed the connection), and Mousehole and Porthleven another day. It was non-stop, we walked a lot and each evening we were ready to drop. Luckily we found a local hostelry near the B&B that did good pub grub and Doom Bar and went there all week :-)

All in all, a great trip and we are now well versed in reading timetables, let's just say we learned by our mistakes very quickly :-)







As for me, the hair is still hanging in there in places, I may have to shave it if it stays like this, it's wierd and neither here nor there. I'm hoping the next chemo will kill it all off and I can start from scratch again. Otherwise all is well and the next trip is already planned.

Hope you like the photos.

Speak soon.
Sheila x