Greetings All!
Well it's time for the next installment of Barbie and Scott's adventure! This one is to tell you about our trip to St. Ives in Cornwall. For those unfamiliar with British geography, cornwall is the county in the southwestern most tip of England. We took the train there which was a little over 5 hours each way! To put this in perspective, we used to make the drive from Dallas to Little Rock in about 5 hours, and it was 80 fewer miles. Normally the train rides are not that slow, but this particular trip called at just about every station on the line along the way. However, train rides are not so bad, you don't have to worry about traffic or being sleepy and you can read.
So anyway, we finally got there on Saturday July 26th at about 1pm. The area is gorgeous, as I'm hoping you'll see in our photos. I picked a spot on the north Cornwall coast which is supposed to be more interesting landscape and more waves from the Atlantic. The town actually has to beaches, one on either side of a peninsula. One beach faces a bay and the other the Atlantic. We laid out on some beach towels (after slathering suncreen) on the beach and enjoyed the sand in between our toes. The water wasn't exactly balmy though. As many of you may know, it does not exceed 65 degrees F here during much of the summer so the water is very chilly. My guess is the water temperature is 60 degrees F or lower. So we wading in it up to our ankles and then decided we'd had about enough of that. So just laying on the beach was just fine with us. The weekend's weather turned out to be great, especially on Sunday which was in the 80s! There were tons of Brits turned out for their annual holiday. This tourist spot didn't have very many foreignors at all. Many of the London attractions have more Americans/Asians/Europeans than Brits, but St. Ives was all British. Many people were donning wet suits just to enter the water.
This was our first overnight trip so we stayed at a bed and breakfast that Saturday night. It was very nice and quaint with a view of the bay. We killed time exploring curiosity shops (England is chalk full of them). We ate at a seafood restaurant and had fish and scallops, and went to a craperie for dessert. All in all we had an enjoyable and relaxing weekend.
Well it's time for the next installment of Barbie and Scott's adventure! This one is to tell you about our trip to St. Ives in Cornwall. For those unfamiliar with British geography, cornwall is the county in the southwestern most tip of England. We took the train there which was a little over 5 hours each way! To put this in perspective, we used to make the drive from Dallas to Little Rock in about 5 hours, and it was 80 fewer miles. Normally the train rides are not that slow, but this particular trip called at just about every station on the line along the way. However, train rides are not so bad, you don't have to worry about traffic or being sleepy and you can read.
So anyway, we finally got there on Saturday July 26th at about 1pm. The area is gorgeous, as I'm hoping you'll see in our photos. I picked a spot on the north Cornwall coast which is supposed to be more interesting landscape and more waves from the Atlantic. The town actually has to beaches, one on either side of a peninsula. One beach faces a bay and the other the Atlantic. We laid out on some beach towels (after slathering suncreen) on the beach and enjoyed the sand in between our toes. The water wasn't exactly balmy though. As many of you may know, it does not exceed 65 degrees F here during much of the summer so the water is very chilly. My guess is the water temperature is 60 degrees F or lower. So we wading in it up to our ankles and then decided we'd had about enough of that. So just laying on the beach was just fine with us. The weekend's weather turned out to be great, especially on Sunday which was in the 80s! There were tons of Brits turned out for their annual holiday. This tourist spot didn't have very many foreignors at all. Many of the London attractions have more Americans/Asians/Europeans than Brits, but St. Ives was all British. Many people were donning wet suits just to enter the water.
This was our first overnight trip so we stayed at a bed and breakfast that Saturday night. It was very nice and quaint with a view of the bay. We killed time exploring curiosity shops (England is chalk full of them). We ate at a seafood restaurant and had fish and scallops, and went to a craperie for dessert. All in all we had an enjoyable and relaxing weekend.
