Roseland peninsula tour days five and six

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 Today is hot. It was hot at 0700 ..... 20C ..... but there is a great breeze blowing through as well so that helps.

The same great display of mares tails seen yesterday are still with us. We are officially in a heat wave.

The news keeps me amused and horrified at the same time. 12 candidates for PM.....as leader of Tory party and all bar one promising huge tax cuts and no one saying what public services will be cut. They espouse honesty and integrity but all duck answering the simple question ..... what spending will be cut to fund the costs? 

It's a cycling day and we are currently sat under a red Walls ice cream sun brolly at a picnic table under some trees behind the bike shack down at Pentewan Sands. The little brook bubbles away .... huge clumps of bright green weed provide shade for lazy tiny trout. Butterflies flit across the bankside flowers - cows parsley, red campion, white creeping vine, foxgloves and some large pink flowering water plants I'm not familiar with.

We stopped three miles down the road for coffee at Mevagissy and a quick reccy of the harbour. It would be a good but ambitious sail along the coast in my 15' dinghy, but doable. There are two beaches within the outer harbour walls I could dry out on. It would be nice if the harbour master waived the £20 per night mooring fee but I doubt he/she will 🙄

Pentewan is lovely. A tiny village with a square just off an old abandoned small port area...silted up due to china clay upriver. The last china clay schooner departed in 1929. The railway was abandoned. Now the old quay warehouses are converted apartments.

It's another lazy day. This retirement malarkey is hard work isn't it. We will cycle up the valley NCN 3 trail and pick up the lane down to the Lost Gardens of Heligan and then back down the lanes to the camp site.

This afternoon? Chilling in the sun I suspect, reading books. We leave for home tomorrow. Should be back within two hours and Bryony will be emptied, cleaned and sorted for her habitation inspection in two weeks’ time.

Did I say this retirement malarkey is hard work?

 

So, a summary of costs

Trewince 3 nights @£20per night....no EHU

Treveague 3 nights @£27 per night with EHU and water on grass pitch.

 

Cornwall is expensive. It is peak season. However, we saved on fuel as it isn't a long journey so we will have used around a quarter of a tank ..... about £40 worth.