There’s a great walk to work up you appetite that involves parking in Zennor, then taking the cliff path to Gurnard’s Head, but that wasn’t for us on Monday. The weather was poor – mizzle from mid-morning until late afternoon. We had Polly – the new puppy, and we didn’t want to put our friends [...]
June, 2011 Archive
A fab cafe in Perranuthnoe, near Penzance.
Go to Perranuthnoe anyway, it’s a beautiful village, as yet unspoilt, it has a great pub, gallery with some interesting wood turning, and of course a lovely beach. For the last few years there has been a good cafe in the cabin just before you get to the beach, it’s still there, looks good, and [...]
Boscawen-un. Megalithic stone circle, just off the A30.
When I started to research the significance of Boscawen-un stone circle I quickly realised that this was a site of some import, and probably best you dig around the web, or in Philip Payton’s wonderful book “Cornwall” if you want to really know what’s what. I have our new puppy to thank for the fact [...]
Back to Tregiffian after a few days
We’ve spent a few days in North Wales and had the complete joy of happening upon a field of David Nash‘s work in progress in the foothills of Snowdon. It rained a lot as you’d expect, and then a whole lot more too. So to get home to Tregiffian this afternoon, especially after yesterday’s downpour [...]
A Great Penzance Pizza – Ricardos
If you knew my lovely wife Amanda you’d understand that needing to know where the best pizza is to be had is vital! For years that meant going to a campsite where Richard would be baking pizza in his van, but now, after many years he has put down roots and opened a brilliant little [...]
A circular walk to Nanjizal – a long one, with a few food and drink stops.
Nanjizal is a lovely beach, and because it’s a fair walk to get there from anywhere you’ll usually find a few groups of folk, a few dogs, maybe a seal, and a great stretch of sand, a couple of pools and an azure sea. There are many places to start this walk. We’ll go the [...]
