Mevagissey

[manicscousers]

more like the med  ;D

[manicscousers]

[Lauren S]

Beautiful picture.
I grew up very near to Meva  ;D

Lauren  :)

[kitten]

Great picture manics, and lucky you Lauren!  I love mevagissey, we've been on hols near there a couple of times and love it  8)

[sarah]

i grew up near mevagissy too lauren! whereabouts you from there? i grew up in over near gorran haven. glad you had a nice holiday manics, how was st ives?

[Robert_Brenchley]

I lived in Foxhole for several years. I used to preach in the old Methodist church in Meva.

[manicscousers]

loved St Ives, Mevagissey, Eden, Paradise Park, Perranporth, St Agnes, CORNWALL..my favourite place  ;D

[Lauren S]

Oh my my, what a very small World.

Robert...I got married at Foxhole Methodist Chapel.  ;D

Sarah...I grew up in a very tiny hamlet called Tregorrick.
A few miles from London Apprentice (Towards St. Austell)

Manics...St Ives is one of my fave places along with Mousehole.
Mousehole, great place to visit near Christmas as they do a light show IN the harbour.

Thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures
Lovely, lovely, lovely

Lauren  :)

[manicscousers]

you lucky, lucky peole, what a place to grow up  ;D

[Lauren S]

Manics, where were you based, as you certainly covered alot of the county?
One of the great advantages about Cornish roads is, if you miss one turn off, there's always another further down the road "Me ansums"    ;)

Lauren  ;D

[manicscousers]

we were based in St Ives caravan site, but we had lots of petrol  :o
we don't drive lots of places at home so saved the 'carbon' miles  ;D

[Lauren S]

Have stayed at this caravan park before. Wonderful views over the bay.

http://www.ayrholidaypark.co.uk/

Lauren  :)

[grawrc]

Sorry slightly off topic but do you pronounce Foxhole like fox hole or does it have one of these wonderful spellings that sound quite different from what you expect?

Like Altrincham and Milngavie and so on ...

[sarah]

ah yes we used to drive through london apprentice on way to do shopping in snozzle. foxhole definately rings a bell but i cant place it in me memory.  yes cornwall was great place to grow up manics but i had no idea at the time of course. youth, as they say, is wasted on the young...mind you its not like it was when i was a lass; there is more money down there now; at least in the coastal towns that is. some of the inland towns are now as dead as the proverbial dodo. redruth and cambourne where i lived for a while are bleak.  if i could live anywhere i would live in teighnmouth. i'd wave across the water to you onyour plot lauren! i think foxhole is pronounced as sounds grawc. unlike mousehole...

[Lauren S]

Mousehole, pronounced Mowzol  ;D

Lauren  :-X

[carolinej]

We've booked a few nights in a Travelodge this christmas to go to see the Mousehole lights, as we heard they were very good.

cj :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

Foxhole is pronounced Focksle. It's on the main St. Austell-Newquay road, so you're bound to have passed through.

I used to preach at London Apprentice as well. The story goes that back in the 19th Century, there was a guy living there who'd been an apprentice in London. That was so sensational (people didn't travel much then) that the village ended up named after him.

[sarah]

thats interesting; London must have been another world. any idea how indian queens came to be?

[SueSteve]

I have been holidaying at Pentewan since I was a year old!
We were there last May!

[Robert_Brenchley]

There was a pub called the Indian Queen or something of the sort, but stories differ. Pentewan was in use as a port right up to WW2, but died when the last sailing ships finally vanished, as it was too small to take anything else. It silted up too fast to become a leisure port.

[Froglegs]

Last year we had a week in Polkierris, only a small village about 10 houses, a pub,a small harbor nice clean beach with clear blue sea just right if like me you like snorkeling.We stayed on the one and only caravan site there only 7 vans on it lovey and peacesfull. they do nice grub at The Ship Inn Pentewan. And if you wont to see what the weather is doing now in Pentewan check this out http://www.ocean-sports.co.uk/our-web-cam, click on previous to get todays view. :)