To beat the weather I got to Scandinavian Village before check in, so leaving my car at the centre I went for a walk near Aviemore.
To get away quickly this morning I had a pot of tea for breakfast whilst loading the car – so here is the required cook breakfast photograph – all good trips include a full English but in this case it is a full Scottish!
As followed the route along the Loch there was a convenient picnic area for a tea break.
I carry the meths bottle in an outside mesh pocket, on my rucksack, which meant I did struggle to light the meths as it was very cold.
Here is the view from my cafe – menu, fresh hot tea with custard creams.
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This is our last evening at Veryan Camping and Caravan Club Site, for this trip and the weather was good enough to sit outside and have tea and biscuits.
There was also time for one more shot of a sunset over our tents.
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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.
This was the view whilst I was drinking my tea this morning.
And the complete arch… again.
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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.
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.
