Pirates of Penzance

The caravan site at St Hilarys was just perfect with palm trees and sunshine when we arrived. It is adult only and is just so quiet and peaceful, I think we will be looking for other “adult only” ones in future.

We started this leg of our trip with a cycle ride down to St Michaels Mount, which is owned by the National Trust, and therefore a free day out for us so it had to be done. We arrived early and as the causeway was still covered and as John does not have the ability to “walk on water”, we left our bikes and took the boat over to explore the island.

A trip to Lizard Point was next on the list. It is the most southerly point in England and not at all tacky like Lands End, so we thought it would be a much better option.

From Lizard Point we followed the coastal path round to Kynance Cove, which must definitely be one of the most beautiful beaches in the world… it doesn’t get any better than that!

 

After several phone calls and numerous text messages, we finally managed to meet up with Tracey, Ben and Hugo (the chocolate lab) for a walk to St Agnes Head and the old tin mines. Hugo had a fab time bouncing along the path (he was definitely on a mission). The gentle half hour walk turned into a 4 hour one but we broke it up with a pub lunch overlooking the beach and a beer, so it was not too bad.

We drove back up to Watergate Bay where they were staying the following day for a yummy BBQ and of course lots of wine and had a great evening just chatting in the sun.

We have found some pretty cool standing stones and added several hundred more photos to our collection from our stop in Penzance… (so far we have taken a over  4,500 photos… god bless digital cameras as we would need a second mortgage to get them developed) I think we might lose a few friends if we invite them round to look at our holiday snaps.

And the greatest disaster of the trip so far… After all our meticulous planning and preparation the Minack open air theatre was fully booked so we didn’t get the chance to see “Much a do about nothing”.  

Hey Ho… onto our next destination at Brixham.