We wanted to make the most of our time in the South West, so headed down to St Michaels Mount. It is a very impressive location, about 100 meters off the coast is the island. It was low tide when we got there, so we were able to walk across. By the time we had wandered around, the tide had come in, and the island was cut off from the mainland, and we had to catch a boat back!
From here, we started heading back north, and went to Trerice. We were able to have our picnic today in the grounds, as the rain had passed, and really enjoyed the gardens there. The local primary school are now looking after the medieval vegetable gardens that were recovered only a few years ago.
After looking through the house (which has lots of ‘hands on’ exhibits, including some interesting musical instruments), we drove about 20miles to Lanhydrock House. We had been advised to make sure we had lots of time to spend here, and once we arrived, we could see why. It took over an hour just to wander through the house. The kitchens, with separate rooms for dairy, meat cellar, fish cellar, etc, were huge, but needed to be to cater for up to 17 in the Earls household, 50 staff and many guests. We then wandered around the gardens, which are quite extensive.
It as around 5:30 by the time we finished in the garden, and missed out on a couple of castles we had thought we might get to. One of Andrews colleagues had suggested to go to Polperro, a little fishing village. We looked it up on the map, and it was on our way back to Portwrinkle, so off we went.
It is a lovely little village, tiny little port, but self-sustaining, which is great. We were recommended to a restaurant, and headed in for dinner. The chef at The Cottage Restaurant used to be head chef at the Waldorf Hotel, and it showed. Using local seafood, we had a delicious dinner, Andrew a whole baked fish, and Alison, mixed seafood sautéed in garlic with a chilli sauce. Scrumptious!
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Hi andrew and ali
Sorry we were a bit in a hurry when you rang last night but we were running late for the trivia night they had at Victory.
I thought lyndall would enjoy it and it was a total disaster - the questions were hopeless - real trivia - how many curls did shirley temple have - and the rest of the night was like that - 20 questions on the difinition of pack ice, and this sort of ice and that - stuff most people know nothing about - many people were getting pretty cheesed off by the end of the night! Lyndall was not impressed as she had been looking forward to it for a week and a half....I was just plain embarrassed that I had asked them all to a good night's fun and it was 'crap'- - we enjoyed one another's company but oh gee One thing was funny - Lyndall decided to represent our table and sing the end of a song - well it was the only one no one seemed to know and when it was finished - Lyndall said 'Jesus' which was an interesting comment at Victory .... I laughed really - we didn't hear it but the compare said i don't think he can help you! So was interesting. Lyndall and pip have a new puppy - another the same as Yoda. ... think we told you. Am in the beginning of writing reports....will keep you informed about the weekend you come home ....perhaps we can get a key from Pip and Lyndall would that be ok. ring us again sometime and hopefully we will have more to say...and more time to say it...no rain...dogs well... Terry looking absolutely awful and still hanging on. It is really taking its tole on Sandra.
Look after your selves..
Barb
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