Stunning Cornwall

All eight of our group are now in residence at the holiday hideaway.

The most amazing thing that links us all together is not only the narrowboat link but they are also bloggers, which is how we all met up in the first place.

Cup of tea anyone??? Four different types of bloody milk!

Yesterday Elaine and myself went off on our own looking for a dog walking beach (for Bombo).  We found one right next to the siding where they keep the Cornish Night Riviera sleeper train!  They service it here before taking it back to Penzance ready to depart on its late night run up to Paddington. The interesting fact about the loco is that it is 50 years old this March!  It's been rebuilt but pretty good going I reckon ... they have four of these old locos in service, just to  pull the night sleeper ...

A prom shot, with St Michael's Mount in the background ...

We then toddled off to Mousehole, where we sat in the sun enjoying the view for a couple of hours ...

We headed off back to base, stopping off at a pottery where we caught up with the others.

The Pottery cafe was also home to a couple of very friendly cats ...

Our Cornish tour guides, Dot and Gordon (NB Ewn Ha Cul) used their local knowledge and took us to see some ancient stones (2000BC) ...

The four witches girls of the group posed for a shot, it was a bit too chilly for them to go skyclad!

Apparently this is some sort of 4000 year old burial chamber.  I reckon a Pikey must be buried here, check out the ghostly transit van in the background!!!

Today the others headed off to St Ives for the day.  Elaine wasn't feeling the best so we just went for a little drive to Lands End.

It was a stunning day.  We went for a walk along the cliff path, which was a bit hairy at times, then it was time for a bit of omphaloskepsis ...

Cornwall is such a stunning county ...

Elaine crashed out on some incredibly spongy grass ...

The sea was angry today, my friends ...

On the way back to base we stopped off at Porthcurno beach, which is a stunning sandy beach ...

Tonight it's Pancakes for tea!

The Cornish Adventure Begins!

Last Thursday we waved goodbye to Ray and Diane (NB Ferndale) who left Bolly for a short cruise to a marina.  We planned to meet up with them and six other narrowboaters a few days later for a week of debauchery in far west Cornwall.

Diane proudly waving the Aussie flag as they disappear around the bend ...

Friday we left Bolly and headed off to Milton Keynes with my mother safely ensconced in the boot.

On Saturday morning we headed off to Cornwall from Milton Keynes but we were held up for nearly two hours due to the tragic 42 car pile up on the M40.  As there had been a fatality I think we got off lightly.   The television crew were filming the traffic ...

We were welcomed to Cornwall by a beautiful sunset ...

We are staying in a most magical converted barn, which is located on a farm.

This morning the farmers dogs were waiting outside the door for the boys to come out and play ...

The baby Leonberger was in a very playful mood ...

It all went well at first, then ...

.....it ended in tears when the playful pup stood on Sammie and made him squeal!

Bombo doesn't play too well and told the pup to go away in no uncertain terms ...

The other members of our party headed off for the day, kindly taking Bombo and Sammie with them as I had arranged to meet up with an old school friend from Luton who I haven't seen in nearly 40 years!  

Bob picked us up at 11.00 and we headed off to St Ives for a long lunch and a catch up.

St Ives looked superb and the weather was surprisingly mild, there were even some people swimming in the sea ... it wasn't that warm!

We had a great catch up and will now make a better effort to stay in touch!

 We got back to the farmhouse late afternoon.  Elaine and myself  joined Diane in the hot tub, Ray served us drinks whilst Dot and Gordon prepared dinner.  It was a good first day!

Tomorrow morning the last two of the group join us.