What A Busy Day !!!

Tuesday dawned beautifully sunny so we bibbed into the tourist town of Perranporth on the bike and had a little look around the tat shops then wandered down to the beach.
We bought a steak Cornish pasty (and a dinky half-size one for me called the “Pixie Pasty” and (cheekily) took them and our takeaway teas to the care home over the road and sat on one of the old dear’s benches to consume them !
Then I had booked us in at Healey’s Cornish Cyder Farm (the home of Rattler’s Cider) and for the bargain price of £8 p/p we were presented with an annual pass and a ticket for a free drink !!!
We saw the old presses and the museum had videos to explain the process. Then through to the distillery where we learnt about colouring and ageing & you could try samples.
There was also a farm with cute goats, piggies and peacocks then we had a sit in the courtyard and drank out free pint of Rattler’s in the sunshine ☀️
Sadly we didn’t have room in the top box for a pallet of Rattler’s (see piccie below) so had to make do with a glass for Marcus – but when I checked later, it’s cheaper in Sainsbury’s anyway !!!
We then headed back to Rich’s, packed up and said our goodbyes and headed off…
We originally were going to visit The Eden Project so had booked a campsite 5 minutes from there for convenience – but in the end we didn’t go – however we were delighted to arrive and be given a cracking spot overlooking the sea 😊
Little sit in the sun, Dave on the sax whilst I made tea then a couple of glasses of wine whilst we watched Corro and an episode of The Crown before tucking up just gone 10pm 😴 💤

St Michael’s Mount

So it was SUPPOSED to chuck it down ( ☔️ ) ALL day but – after it cleared (a little) we popped on the bike early afternoon and went to explore…
The only thing (REALLY) worth a mention is St Michael’s Mount – which looked lovely (if a little misty) but was inaccessible – due to lack of booking – and also completely full car parks… So we had a very late lunch/early dinner in a pub then came back to warm up…

My Dave practised then the sax whilst I updated the blog and then we had a few drinks & a chat with Rich & his housemates – so another lovely evening 😊

Sunday Lunch & New Friends 💗

Sunday dawned just gone 5am to the sound of the cockerel 🐓 but we snuggled back down & didn’t re-surface until gone 9am…
Gutted 😐 that the WIFI didn’t let me attend online Mass 🙏 but in the end was probably just as well as we were bundled off in a Range Rover to the pub (my first since Lockdown !!!)
Table for 11, a fantastic roast dinner followed by a sit in the garden of another pub for the afternoon, sipping Thatcher’s Gold and chatting to Rich’s lovely friends…
Came back, more G & T’s in the kitchen and chatting whilst Rich magically conjured up toad-in-the-hole, chips & beans In record time !!!
A little bob in the hot tub with a glass of bubbles finished the day off nicely and was tucked up by 10pm… 😴 💤

Arrival at Penhallow House, St Newlyn East

So we arrived at St Newlyn East, Cornwall – home of Richard – about 5:30pm Saturday, had a cup of tea and then wandered around the grounds complete with hens, cockerel, summer house, Lazy Spa (blow-up hot tub like our’s), vegetable patch, water source and well – then got started on the G & T’s…

Richard had some other peeps staying, also invited some locals over and was ever “hostess-with-the-mostest” dishing up canapés, cocktails, “posh” fish/chicken and chips AND 2 desserts !!!

The conversation flowed – as did the alcohol, then came the singing and My Dave can’t remember going to bed !!!

As an aside – Louis (Richard’s 8 year old french bulldog) who seemed to be my friend – later in the evening when I tried to pick him up – decide to bite me – ouch !!!

On Us Way At Last !!!

So here we are (not on a cruise ship 🛳 to Bilbao but) on the rainy ☔️ M5 on the way to Richard’s just outside Newquay in Cornwall for a couple of days…
Stopped at the services and Dave sent me in for a Double Whopper With Cheese but I came out with a BLT from WH Smith as Burger 🍔 King was closed 😐
Got the electric bikes 🚲 AND the KTM 690 🏍 on the back so will be popping off for adventures !!!
Weather dodgy initially but should clear up for Torbay on Wednesday & the Isle of Wight the week after.
More later 💋💗