I I went for a walk along the coast near Cromer today.
There is a community of working fishermen in Cromer operating from the beach. They have an interesting collection of rusty tractors to pull their boats up high on the beach.
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There was time today for a couple of hours walking out near Newark.
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Jeremy and I spent the morning in Truro – mainly in the Royal Cornwall Museum.
On the way back to the campsite we stopped at one of our favourite tea rooms – Tresillian Garden Centre. We have visited it each time we have camped at Veryan just for the Cornish Cream Tea – it cannot be beaten for quality or value. Real Cornish clotted cream and warm fruit scones and jam produced in the village. Cost £3.00 each.
Here is how to find it. It is on the right as you leave the village (before crossing the bridge), on the A390 heading for St Austell.
Once Jeremy was up we decided to spend a wet day in Truro, however the car parks were full – so we we t to Falmouth.
We found an excellent old fashioned department store, to shelter in whilst the rain was at its heaviest. Trago stocked everything, it had electric guitars, to kitchen stuff, furniture to shower stalls, to Christmas stuff to cosmetics – it really defies description. We bought some drysacks for backpacking, some beakers with snap on lids that fit neatly inside our Ti mugs and a small zippered pouch for tea bags, sugar etc.
With the day getting darker and wetter we decided to go back to the campsite for a triple bill of DVDs.
Morning coffee before Jeremy gets up -boiled up in my Crusader Cookset but using my Vargo Ti meths burner as it is cleaner than solid fuel tablets. Even though we have an MSR Pocket Rocket gas stove with us the meths burner still gets a lot of use, especially when we need to boil water for both of us – and we are not in a hurry. It also is a good second burner when cooking – again best for boiling water. The down side is it takes a bit longer to boil the water compared to the MSR stove.
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Another good weather day following a night of on and off showers.
Mevagissey is great place to visit, even with all it’s tourist shops it is still a working fishing village, with character. It also has free attractions, something rare in Cornwall, a really good museum and an aquarium.
One thing to remember though is that the streets are one car wide so park in the first car park (on the left) you come to, it is only a couple of hundred metres to walk to the village and it is better than trying to drive on Mevagissey streets.
Back at the campsite we had tea and cinnamon doughnuts whilst sitting outside watching the sunset.
Another Cornish sunset from the Camping and Caravan Club site at Veryan – and another picture of my tent.
It is now a very nice evening, it is dark, and there is no wind and it is not cold either. We are sitting outside having made some hot drinks, Jeremy is reading and I am blogging with a candle for extra light.
Diana is out this evening at Business Club promoting Octagon’s Disaster Recovery Seminar whilst we watch the sunset.
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