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The Dish

Despite my best intentions when enquiring at the very helpful Tourist information in Penzance, I ended up at what was almost a parody of the English seaside guest house- floral curtains, lots of trinkets on the landings, and a strict instruction that breakfast would only be served between 8.30 and 9am; and despite a full [...]

Alpha and Omega- from the beginning to the end.

Despite my Sat-Nav leading me via the ’scenic’ route, I reached a quiet Eden Project to visit the giant biomes. Though the Mediterranean biome was cooler than I expected, the tropical biome was much like the real thing, as my lens kept steaming up! Down to Penzance for a late lunch before the Porthcurno telegraph [...]

Cornwall

It’s a fair time since I last visited Cornwall and somehow what stuck in my mind were childhood memories of crawling through Okehampton. Well it now has a bypass, indeed the A30 was fast and quiet and I was soon well into the county at the end of England. First destination was Padstow, small village [...]