Cornwall

Cornwall
Friday morning, 5 July

Our ferry crossing went uneventfully and we arrived in Kent earlier than planned (because we were early at the terminal they put us on an earlier ferry, and also we gained an hour by crossing into a different time zone).

We even remembered to drive on the left, so in our left-hand-drive vehicle the driver travels along near the gutter while the navigator is out in the middle of the road, staring, bewildered, at the oncoming trucks.

We spent a couple of nights in Kent, very close to Sissinghurst Castle, (not a castle at all but the home of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson who created one of England's most famous gardens), then we used motorways to travel to Cornwall.  We stayed a night on Cornwall's north coast at a little place called Polzeith where they were giving surfing lessons in a little bay and yesterday drove to our present caravan park just outside Truro.

Here's part of Sissinghurst, now operated by the National Trust:

Last night (well, evening) we had a great walk down to the sea and a lovely little pub.  Actually the walk grew as it went along because with a few navigational issues now and then it was a little over three hours before we were back in camp (although some of that was in the pub, of course!).

Here's one of the little roads (or lanes?) in Truro.

Today we're going to catch the bus into Falmouth.

R & J