Ok then, you lot have been spot on with the advice so far so lets try this one
We,re going away at half term (hopefully, if twinkle, the cat, is OK)
Staying on a farm on near Bodmin, of course we will be visiting the Eden Project have you got any ideas of other places to visit. We,ve got two Sprogs, both girls aged 9 and 11 and also Meg the dog will be with us.
Thats interesting, was asking the same question earlier in the Chat room. Look forward to the answers.
Thanks
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I like Heligan. Yo can walk your legs off and get to see veg in ram rod straight lines - boo hiss I hate feeling inadequate.
Bodmin Jail is supa-dupa, I really enjoyed my time there (oooer, that hasn't come out right. It wasn't me Guv, honest) Interesting and easy enough for the kids to enjoy aswell.
Mawes Castle
(The Castle is complete. Visitors always enjoy the location of the Castle. The sea comes right up to the outer defences that were built in the mid 19th century. With Pendennis Castle on the other side of the bay, St Mawes Castle guards the entrance of the Carrick Roads.
For visitors there is an audio tour that takes about 1 hour, includes the gardens which display sub-tropical plants. The tour takes you back to the time of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and brings to life the atmosphere of the Castle in it's glory days)
Carnglaze Caverns are fantastic (website: http://www.carnglaze.com/ )
Trethorne Leisure Park (incase of a miserable day! lol) I think the website is www.trethorne.co.uk
Boscastle is a lovely place to see aswell (although we haven't been since they had those dreadful floods)
Other than Tintagel, the above places are the only ones I can remember visiting and can recommend.
Padstow, Mevagissey, Fowey (pronounced Foye) and Polperro are all worth a visit but are heaving with tourists most of the time. Â Heligan definitely worth a visit.
Jungle entrance:
Lanhydrock is in Bodmin (though as usual for a National Trust place it's not cheap unless you stick to the gardens only). Trelissick's more of a day trip being near Falmouth but it's a lovely garden. Heligan is fantastic even if it's tipping it down with rain and Eden will be packed, being half term. Tintagel's fantastic for a rock scramble and lots of steps! Then there's the beach at Trebarwith Strand (with all the traditional trimmings like hot doughnuts, ice cream, Cornish pasties...) and the cliff walk to/from Tintagel. Oh yes the Port William pub at Trebarwith has good food, reasonable beer and a Grey Parrot also called William! (Though his language is getting worse as he gets older...)
Bodmin Moor has a car park accessible from Camelford, where you can walk up Rough Tor (pronounced row tor, as in argument row!) given suitable footwear.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=214015&y=81810&z=4&sv=214500,81500&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
There's also the farm on Bodmin Moor near Minions :) which makes Yarg cheese. For the best Cornish pasties, go to Tregenna pasties in Tintagel after you climb back from the castle into the town. (Everywhere is hilly). They cost around £2 each, range from traditional to cheese and onion and vegetable and lamb and mint and...
(Darn, hungry now)
There's a fantastic ice cream shop nearby for dessert ;D
We were down there last October half term on our honeymoon :) but have been down to stay with friends in Treknow many times.
moonbells
Cotehele (National Trust) has lovely gardens if it's not too far for you - details on the NT website. Assuming it's still the same as when I was last there, you can park in the upper car park for the house, 2 gardens, & restaurant, & then drive (or walk if you've very energetic) down to the lower car park where there's a quay with a tiny maritime museum, ice cream kiosk, & a short walk to a restored watermill - it's a whole day out.
Take a peek at my "Webshots" album, It has views of Pine Lodge,Old Mill Herbary, Trebah, Heligan, Lamorran House Gardens and last but not least Trelissick ;D Everyone of them well worth a visit, a must see is Lamorran House Gardens 8)
http://community.webshots.com/user/roybhamuk
Lamoran is only open a few days of the week, but well worth a visit.
Pine Lodge is an absolute must, over 6,000 different plants, all labelled and some you won't see anywhere else in the country. Run by two lovely friends of mine Ray and Shirley Clemo, fantastically knowledgeable plants woman, really nice people to boot.
website address is www.pine-lodge.co.uk just to get the mouth watering. ;)
cheers me dears :)
knew you lot would have plenty of ideas - we go next week so will let you know where we went and what we got up to upon our return!
Have a fab time and don't forget to take piccies for us, Delilah!
Moonbells, how dare you! "For the best Cornish pasties, go to Tregenna pasties in Tintagel " - no way are these the best pasties, for them you have to travell way down the county to Hayle and get them from Phillps at the foundry, not the harbour, the pasties at the little bakery in Port Issac are far better than Tregenna. Sorry the Cornish don't consider anything other than a steak filling as a proper pastie, specially those made with anything other than a good shortcrust pastry.
Lanhydrock house closes in October too, and to be honest the gardens there aren't much at this time of year.
In fact lots of Cornwall closes at the end of September, most town still have half day closing and Wadebridge closes at about 4pm.
I love living here ::)
From what my mother (who lives a few miles away) was telling me on the phone last night, I think St. Austell has closed down permanently. Pity, it was a nice country town when I moved down in '87, but things have been closing ever since, and even Tesco has gone now. Rats leaving a sinking ship.
Robert, you're not far off. St Austell is virtually deserted, and it's mainly because of Tesco's, they are the rats in my opinion.
The Coucil and the RDA are trying to redevop the town centre and Tescos are holding everone to ransome. They had two shops, one in town and one just outside. They want to expand the out of town one, and have been refused permission as the site is too small and too close to houses.
So they are playing silly devils with the in town one, the council needed to demolish the old car park next to Tescos in town store (which was closed and empty) Tescos objected as they needed to reclaim the air conditioning unit from the roof - just an excuse as it was 15 years old and just junk. That was 12 months ago, the council then finally had to apply for a CPO on the building as Tesco's refused to sell it unless they got PP for the other store.
In my opinion its Tesco who have caused the delay, its to their advantage that all the small town centre shops close down, then they will get their trade. Just another reason for not shopping there in my opinion, along with their across the board price increases the week before the holiday season starts.
Sorry, rant over.
Well that makes two of us Wardy. I hate supermarkets with a vengence. Their baskets on the other hand make excellent trugs, bird proofers, seives - hey why nick one when you can nick three. I have a Safeways one so that must be woth something since they have been bought out by Morrisons don't you think?
(Me 'botics have kicked in and I dont feel like hell today. Just gagging to get to the lotty and not allowed out to play :'()
Your children might like this place:- www.dobwalls.com
We took ours there some years ago and they loved it! :)
It`s not far from Bodmin.
Sue
I gather you know the area, Deeds; that's about what my mother told me. I lived at Foxhole in the '80's.
Yes I do Robert, I'm the other side of St Austell, about three miles from the dreaded Eden (which had now been renamed Destination rather than Project) according to the charming Mr Smit - sorry sarcasm creeping in again) :-X
Delilah, you might find these two sites of interest:-
http://oldcornwall.netfirms.com
www.cornwallcam.co.uk
:)
OK time to go, Cornwall here we come bye bye everybody!! :D :D :D
We're back and what a week we had :)
We went to Eden (my idea of Hell but the kids loved it), Heligan was fantastic, had Anns World Famous Pasties at Lizard point which was absolutely stunning. Lands End was just as stunning but completely spoilt by commercialism.
My favourite day was at Tintagel and Boscastle - it was a very windy day and the waves were unbelievable in Boscaslte harbour, Tintagel castle was closed but we did make the climb down to the cove and Merlins Cave.
Moonbells - the Yarg Cheese Farm was the girls favourite day, their friends came to walk to school this morning and it was the first thing my littlest sprog told them about!! They were fascinated with the cheese making process and tasted all the different types of cheese. We finished the tour with a cream tea, I was expecting coloured water Wardy but the tea was wonderful.
Had a wonderful hols but unfortunately came home to a house full of brick dust, never mind I'm trying to stay positive "its only brick dust, we all have our health" is my mantra this morning. Trouble is youngest sproglet is 10 on saturday and we've got the family coming and my mother in law notices every last bit of dust and then will then make a backhanded comment about my housekeeping skills - never mind I must remember to have a couple of glasses of red before she arrives to calm my nerves!!!!!!!!