Postcard from……..Seaton, nr Downderry and Looe on the SE Cornish coast.

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 Postcard from……..Seaton, nr Downderry and Looe on the SE Cornish coast.

Another escape to recharge Bryony’s batteries, a top up before the inevitable third national lock down is announced. Our storage site has many advantages but it does take us thirty minutes to reach it. The site owner lives on site and is quick to rightly lock it down. We always get a day’s notice at least.

Bringing Bryony home and parking her on the road outside our house is impossible. Our drive is steeply sloping and she won’t fit on that and anyway there isn’t the space. Someone’s boat Arwen resides on the drive and the other space is taken up with our smaller car.

Thus, we are rarely able to hook Bryony up to an EHU or household supply. During these winter months we have been relying on the solar panel to keep the batteries topped up but the panel barely replaces the small charge lost overnight to keeping the solar panel system and tracking app working. We have written about our battery dilemma before and you can read it here at https://wherenexthun.blogspot.com/2020/12/managing-batteries-in-autosleeper.html

 

Today we run down to Seaton on the south Cornish coast just east of Looe via the A38 and the Dobwalls roundabout. A good run on the dual carriageway helps enormously.

We are able to park on the seafront in diagonally slanted parking bays. Our 6.3m length just about fits into one bay but there is room behind before the road so if we had had the bike rack on, we would still have been OK. The parking was free – you don’t have to pay between November and March, but for future reference, you can pay by the ‘JustPark’ app.

The Seaton seafront café is closed up but over by the larger car park across the road is a little shack, open and serving hot lattes. A stiff and bitterly cold northerly wind soon chills the take away coffee cups.

We are surprised at how many people are out on the shingle beach – mainly dog walkers but also some hardy families with young children all wrapped up warm. The sun shines and the views along the coast to Looe are lovely. The little river that flows out onto the beach has carved an extraordinarily steep 6’ high river cliff on its outside bend as it turns westwards and children have great fun jumping off it onto the soft fine grit fragment beach below.

We jump out of the moho to go for a walk and immediately retreat back inside. We are hardy types but frankly it is just way too cold. The wind chill drops a base temperature of around 3C down to near probable -2 or 3C. we notice that people don’t spend long on the beach. There are lots of miserable looking dogs about – they clearly feel short changed!

If you are out and about in your motorhome, why not drop us a postcard for our ‘Postcards….from…’ page. https://wherenexthun.blogspot.com/2020/12/motorhome-touring-postcards-send-us.html

In spring time.....

In the meantime, stay safe, have fun and remember ‘take care out there’ (You have to be an old ‘Hillstreet Blues’ fan to even recognise the significance of that last bit 😊 but one of us made sure that was the last thing he said to his departing tutor group in a morning, every school day for thirty-six years!)  

 Steve and Maggie