Our accommodation at the Riverside Hotel in Boscastle was very nice, and after a full breakfast we set off on a little walk around the village. We walked down to the harbour - everywhere we were on the trip was low tide except Penzance - stopped at the bakery and headed off for Clovelly.
Cars are not allowed in Clovelly (unless you live there) so you pay $11 to park and enter the town and walk down a very steep beach-stone walkway through the town to the harbour. Again, it was low tide, and very interesting to see all the boats
just sitting on dry land, attached to chains and ropes to float when the tide comes in. We walked around the harbour seawall and across the beach to a waterfall and then back up the hill (we've done a lot of walking and climbing and this was the first time we really felt pushed for conditioning). However, we made it without medical aid and got back in the car for the trip home. We bought pasties again today, to eat in the car, but they were not nearly as good as the ones at St. Ives.
just sitting on dry land, attached to chains and ropes to float when the tide comes in. We walked around the harbour seawall and across the beach to a waterfall and then back up the hill (we've done a lot of walking and climbing and this was the first time we really felt pushed for conditioning). However, we made it without medical aid and got back in the car for the trip home. We bought pasties again today, to eat in the car, but they were not nearly as good as the ones at St. Ives.One thing which amazes us as Canadians is that the English don't seem to alter their day's plans according to the weather. If they're planning to go to the beach today and it's raining, they go anyway. If it's windy they button up their jacket a little tighter. If the sun comes out, they take off their jacket. Nobody seems to comment on the weather - they just accept it and get on with their plans.
The trip back to London, navigated courtesy of Microsoft Auto-Route and the GPS, was via the motorways this time and much shorter (although we were already a good chunk of the way by the time we got to Clovelly). We picked up Buggy, dropped off the car and had supper just before 8 pm. PetDoc and Noise are both working today (Tuesday) so we're heading out this morning in hopes that they'll be showing Andrew Willows' K2 heat on the big screen at Trafalgar Square. If so, we'll probably be the only ones in the Square who know him. Don't know what the rest of the day will bring - we're hoping to take in a show some night and we have reservations to tour Buckingham Palace tomorrow morning. And, of course, we're travelling to Bognor Regis on Saturday to visit the Hudspith clan.
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