Three ways

The wonderful thing is we have been invited to celebrate our friends Anniversary.   Charlie and Jane have decided to book a venue in Marazion, so here we are again in Cornwall. We would never normally venture out during August for the very reason that soon faces us and the many others travelling today. Having had an uneventful journey along the M5 and then the A30 the traffic started to build and yes you guessed it ( for those in the know about the A30 ) we reach Bolventor. Our lovely dual carriage way becomes a single track and the queuing starts, 4 miles in either direction.

We should have had a boiled egg and toast for breakfast, however after returning home from a short walk last night the Large fresh eggs sold at the nearby farm,had all gone so we had to make do with scrambled egg and sausage ( smaller eggs).

	Our plan for today is to walk to Godolphin House (NT) and back, 8 miles, before it rains. Didn’t make it!
We make it to the House , which is closed to the public, the gardens are open, but I don’t think you would want to travel very far to see it. After some refreshments, we head back, over Godolphin Hill first and then for a change an alternate road. It decided to chuck it down a mile and half from site, unsurprisingly we arrive back very wet.

The Hens have laid! We breakfast on boiled eggs. Its off to St Ives today, a walk to the Station at St Erth first to catch the train to St Ives ( £4.00 return).

	The Town is very busy as the train pulls into the station, the beaches are filling up with Sun worshippers as we step out onto the platform.
Avoiding the surge to the beach we turn left, mount some stairs and find a bench with a view over

Porthminster Beach, we have lunch watching the going’s on below in the Harbour. The rest of the afternoon is spent exploring St Ives. A walk up to The chapel and a cup of tea on a bench overlooking Porthmeor Beach  is followed by another wander around the very busy streets, until it is time to catch the train back to St Erth. Leaving the station, our walk back is along the Hayle Valley and across a couple of fields, the total distance walked being 10 miles .

Oh heck it didn’t last. Ever since 8’oclock this morning with no let up………………

The rain stopped and became a drizzle, full waterproofs on we walk the 4 miles to Marazion and back to feast on a “Philps” £2.55 each. Our Terraced dinning room was empty apart from some “Gulls”. Below the procession of tourists walked back and forth along the causeway to St Michaels Mount.                                              Happy Anniversary The evening is spent celebrating Charlie and Jane’s Silver Anniversary, surrounded by all of their family and friends. A great bunch they all are too. Later Charlie performed his magic trick and lit up the Mount. ( How he rushed across the cause way and back with a box of matches, I shall never know, I expect there is mischief afoot!). “Very Sherlock Holmes”

The morning after the night before, “mothers warn all your children that this is what you look like if you do not eat all your greens!” After saying hello to Charlie and Jane, we cycle to Newlyn in search of the illusive “Golden letter box”. As a tribute to athlete's winning Gold medals in the 2012 Olympic Games the Royal Mail painted a post box gold in the place of their birth. In this case it is in tribute to Helen Glover, first ever womens rowing Gold Medalist.

The cycle path follows the Coastal Path around St Michaels Bay, the mount being the backdrop all the way. It is stunning, in either direction. We would normally continue round to “Mousehole” 8 miles there and 8 miles back……however since we have already cycled 4 miles today we shall only cycle as far as Newlyn.

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