Padstow celebrates the advent of summer on May 1st with its ‘obby ‘oss festivities. A”better day” was forecast and the morning began dry, if not sunny. There are childrens’ ‘oss processions to start the day but they begin a little…
Category: South West, 2009
Spring camping trip to Devon and Cornwall
The Eden Project
We’d had another night of high winds thrashing Billy Bailey with rain and forcing draughts in through the fridge vents. By morning, the wind had calmed and the rain had stopped as advertised by the weather forecasters. The break proved…
Stiff Upper Lips
There was yet more wind-assisted rain forecast for this afternoon but the morning was quite pleasant in a grey sort of way. So, rather than waste part of the morning driving too far, we chose to explore a close stretch…
Booted Out
We seemed to be in for an OK day in that only showers, some heavy or thundery, had been forecast. Treats! We headed for Bedruthen Steps (Carnowas) to go, “ooh, ah” at the rock formations and to walk south on…
Apples and Pears
After a final night at Looe disturbed by further generous helpings of wind and rain, we breathed a small sigh of relief when a respite in the weather arrived just after breakfast. We were moving on to one of our…
Campsite Psychology
Carol and I spent many happy years camping variously in France, Germany, Switzerland or Austria during the height of the season. Our timing was in large part dictated by the fact that, though we ourselves were unencumbered by rugrats, we…
Wash Out
A depression lurking off the north Cornwall coast eventually delivered the promised bad weather after dark yesterday and we had a slightly disturbed night punctuated by heavy spells of rain hammering on Billy Bailey’s roof. By this morning, the wind…
Looe to Seaton
After five dry and mostly sunny days, the weather forecasters had finally begun promising a collapse in our weather. Sometime in the afternoon, a nasty low pressure system hovering somewhere near Cornwall was going to bring wind and rain. However,…
Looe to Polperro
Time to go and investigate properly the retail fish shop that we had found yesterday. Rather than face the long dragging walk back up the steep hill from Looe, we elected to drive and save our poor legs for the…
Trip to (the) Looe
(Well, what did you expect?) A trip of an extravagant 48 miles, to be precise. Since time was not pressing, we first popped into Newton Abbot to do some shopping at a pleasant enough Sainsbury’s supermarket. Apart from being “a…
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