Susie's Emails No 22

Hello to All,

 

We are still on the Cornish Coast, rugged,, beautiful and sometimes remote. 

 

We stopped at a campsite and parking H.H. on a hill/cliff face with 180 deg views and making triply sure the chocks and handbrake were fully secure, we headed off for King Arthur’s Camelot Castle.  This is a 1 hr plus walk along a well warn track that you have to be sure footed to do.  It is up hill, down hill, crossing little streams, up rugged stairs and down again across farmers fields and making sure the stock gates were closed, and then skirting the costal cliffs again O.M.G. you skid a bit on the rocks and rough surface, you couldn’t really take in the view as you were to busy putting one foot in front of the other - we made it. !!!! Yeah.

 

 

 

It was decided reluctantly, that we would not be returning the same way, just thinking about doing that all again in reverse was not on T. Lee’s agenda, he wanted to catch a Taxi back, so I went in search of a Bus stop instead.  TINTAGEL  is a very pretty town, and by the way the Castle of course was very old. Ha Ha !! 

 

 

Anyway, I found a bus stop with 3 people and 2 dogs awaiting, as it turned out they had also done the walk and also decided the bus was the better option, even the dogs looked tired out, 2 minutes wait and the 5 of us and the dogs hopped on. In England dogs are permitted in Cafe’s, Restaurants, Shops, Bars, Public Transport  etc, as long as they are on leads.  Unbelievable, imagine this in OZ,  O.H & S would have apoplexy, I wouldn’t like to see what happens when a dog decides to do what comes naturally in a small space.

The sunset was extra gorgeous shimmering across the water from our excellent view point.

 

A couple of days later and we are on a C.L. site at Glasson Dock, we rode along a windy foreshore  and thru the back of the village and came upon a Canal.  We ended up helping 2 vessels thru the lock, these were fully manual and extremely hard for 2 people to manage,1 steering & 1 working the lock, she had to jump off, undo the old mechanism with a key, then unwind the wheel, then physically pushing and pulling with all your might, the big arms (gates) then the other till they open/close , then re do what you undid, re lock with the key, and then jump back on board and then onto the next one, she had done 21 locks that day, talk about needing a stiff drink at the end of the day !!!!  and some Dencorub…….also swanning down the canal looking cute and gorgeous were 2 lots of Mrs Swan, and their grey babies they both had 8 each, nice to see. On our bikes again and back to H.H. Honestly you never know what we are going to find on our rides, there’s always something around the next corner.

Mrs. Swan and her “babies” trying to get a free ride through the lock.

 

Next day onto the LAKES DISTRICT, These skinny roads and blind corners will always have me holding my breath, no wonder we have a few stiff drinks at night!!!!! Being left hand drive, I call out to Terry what I can see coming, Car, Vans, Trucks & Caravans  etc, and now even animals = sheep. It’s very harrowing, stopping and letting someone pass, with an inch to spare, God Help Me  I’m  due for a heart attack, I don’t know how Terry does it, a lot of the skinny roads are very old (ancient) crumbling stone walls or drop offs.  The ride around the lake & village is very relaxing, just what we need to get some air back into the LUNGS!!!!! Whew…….I can breathe again.

 

Anyway, we are off to SCOTLAND in a couple of days to a lovely town called MOFFAT, we’ll be just in time for their annual Vintage and Classic Car rally, should be good, We’ll keep you posted, bye for now.

 

Love to all, Susie, Terry = H.H. x x x