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A post New-Year break in Paris, flying between Birmingham and Paris CDG with CityJet/Air France. Despite delays caused by snow the previous day, the visibility on the return flight was excellent and the route passed plenty of familiar places, especially on the direct approach into Birmingham.

Seen in a shop in Cornwall- says it all really!

Monday 1st September saw me bright and early at Newquay-Cornwall airport on the site of the RAF St Mawgan base to catch a flight to St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly. Newquay is an expanding airport but meeting a real need providing regional aviation links from Cornwall to the rest of the UK as well as [...]

Sunday morning saw me at the Eucharist at Truro Cathedral, with a visiting choir from Bristol being somewhat outpowered by the Father Willis which sounded in splendid shape. Thereafter upto Newquay (sorry, but what an awful town centre- parody of the typical faded English seaside resort selling naff souvenirs. I stayed as short a time [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]