A Cornwall trip to the Roseland peninsula

 To help you navigate our blog more easily - this link - https://wherenexthun.blogspot.com/2025/06/how-to-navigate-our-blog.html will take you to a summary page detailing all our blog posts. Clicking on a link will open that post in a new browser window. To return to the home current page just close the browser page and return to the post you were reading beforehand. 

Have just arrived at 1pm at Trewince Farm a few minutes ago. For those of you not in the know – it’s down the Roseland peninsula towards St Anthony’s Head.

We had a leisurely start this morning having packed Bryony yesterday. It was only a matter of attaching the bike rack and bikes and putting in the electronics etc – we never leave those overnight in the Moho.

The journey down is an easy run for us, except that there is no obvious coffee stop place. But problem solved. We have now found one. Just before St Austell is a garden centre with a nice big car park and a café in full view of the motorhome. A perfect stop for coffee and the newspapers – a habit we keep meaning to break, but one which thus far continues to persist!

Trewince Farm is a lovely site of two or three open fields surrounded by large hedges and shelter belts of silver birch trees. On top of a hill, there are stunning views across the various valleys of the Fal. Facilities are clean but limited – two showers and two toilets in the men’s block. Similar next door in the ladies. Could be some queueing during the summer!

This is our first proper off grid night trip – three nights off EHU. An experiment to wean ourselves off EHU and to work out what we can and cannot do in the motorhome in preparation for future trips to the continent and stopping on Aires. Already we’ve discovered we won’t be able to charge the bike batteries. So, we will either have to have an EHU every third or fourth day or install an inverter and extra leisure battery and solar panel, which we are loath to do. An alternative, I guess, would be a folding solar panel array and an inverter.

After setting up on ramps and unpacking bits and pieces we head off for a walk around the local area. Just out of the farm entrance is a footpath down through the woods to a small beach inlet area on the river Percuil. Follow the headland around and you come to the small boatyard. From there we opt to walk back up the road and then cut onto a footpath across fields down into the village of Porthscatho, where we now sit, on the beach, with ice creams admiring the views.

Now back in the motorhome, we’ve ditched the microwave obviously and are currently working out how much TV we can safely watch. With plenty of sunshine, the solar panel is working efficiently and the batteries are both topped up fully. An advantage of summer is that they will continue to charge up the battery until around 9pm. More by luck than by design, we were allocated a pitch that was fully open to the sun from sunrise to sunset, but what this has done is reminded us of the importance of ensuring we select pitches in the future which are in the sun to allow the solar panel to work efficiently. Steep learning curve this motorhome malarkey, isn’t it?

Just as we get ready for bed, I raise a discussion about whether or not it might be worth getting a ‘Vanblitz growler’ system fitted to Bryony. The look from the boss shows I’ve won no brownie points for romance! Perhaps it will be a better discussion for tomorrow eh?

 Route to Trewince Farm from Plymouth: A38 – A390 – B3287 – A3078 – Road to Porthscatho

Distance: 62 miles, 1 hour and 45 minutes without coffee stop

Trewince Farm details:  www.trewincefarm.co.uk