Ideally a holiday should end before or when you want it to but I’ve another day booked and wake up stiff and tired due to yesterdays exertions plus the poor quality of sleep you get when your air matress goes flat in the night. Combine this with the ongoing drizzle and the 10 mile circular [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rain’
Saturday – Cricket, Tiffin and Correspondance
Posted in Cornwall, Posts, tagged Badger, Cream Tea, Newquay, Rain, Wetherspoons on 18 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Friday – Scott of Arabia
Posted in Cornwall, Posts, tagged Beer, Crantock, Cubert, Holywell, Lawrence of Arabia, Perranporth, Phil Collins, QBert, Rain, Sand, Scott of the Antarctic, Smugglers Inn, Sun, Watering Hole on 17 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night was windy and I emerge from my tent to find sodden guy ropes dangling from the sides free from their anchors. Moorings restored it’s my first chance to take in my surroundings clearly. There are some ugly clouds but a strong wind should blow it over and past in due course. I’m becoming [...]
Thursday – build me an ark
Posted in Cornwall, Posts, tagged Ark, Beer, Camping, Fifteen, Newquay, Penhallow, Pub, Rain, Tollgate Farm, Watergate Bay on 16 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m woken by a cargo plane buzzing over the campsite as it prepares to land at the adjoining airstrip. It’s mercifully dry and I prepare to undertake the activity I have dreaded most, before the other campers wake and are able to watch. Yes, it’s time to put away the “2 second” tent that I [...]
Tuesday – walking and waiting in the wet
Posted in Cornwall, Posts, tagged Beer, Camping, Constantine Bay, Crows Nest, Harlyn, Padstow, Port Isaac, Rain, St Merryn, Sun, Walking on 14 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Arthur Dent could never quite get the hang of Thursdays. For me it’s Tuesdays. There’s plenty to be indecisive about. I’m awake later than expected (welcome, but no early getaway), the weather forecast is intermittently apocalyptic and I’m not sure whether my limbs will protest about another full days walk. Sod it, I’m off to [...]
Monday – best foot forward
Posted in Cornwall, Posts, tagged Beer, Black Torr, Camping, Daymer Bay, Padstow, Polzeath, Rain, Rock, Sun, Walking on 13 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The eye mask I was given on a long haul flight does the job and I wake at a respectable 6:20am and not the break of dawn. A tentative peak outside reveals the sun glistening off the morning dew, but no obvious black clouds. A quick shower and breakfast then I’m off down the hill [...]
