Once again the croissant fairy (Brett) had deivered some wonderful croissants and the morning paper to our room before we knew it! We had a lie-in and got organized to leave Byfield House by 10:00 am. It was sad to leave this lovely place, and most especially our hosts - as they made us feel so welcome and made our stay in this beautiful part of the world so special. We had a sneak peak at the Garden Room as Jill was very happy to show us around in between guest bookings. We would dearly love to return to Byfield House and felt we were leaving good friends rather than landlords!
We figured on a 3 1/2 hour drive to Broom Parc, Veryan, Truro, didn't count on the hour long delay on the M5 because a Lorry literally burst into flames and the 3 lane highway was all melded into one measly lane with enough traffic to fill an Island! Anyway, the day was beautiful and we spent the time listening to a call in radio show, so all in all it was a pretty good trip down to Cornwall (although much longer than we anticipated). We arrived in St. Austell and explored the town.... not the prettiest of places for sure, but it did have a big church which we walked around and took pictures of. Grabbed a Cornish Pasty and headed for Broom Parc for our 4pm check in. The GPS (George to us) is a wonderful thing and brought us right to the front door... well that's not exactly true. You can't actually drive to the front door, although we did......... so, after taking down half their hedge with our car Ron decided that yep, guess this is just too narrow for our car - must be a walking trail, so into reverse it was. Unfortunately, there were a couple of hikers trying to hike up the very steep hill we had driven down and then the owner arrived in her car!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The joys of not knowing where you are going and trying to reverse back up a very steep hill. At this point you need to know that I am totally mortified and wish the car had an ejection seat - I'd rather have been anywhere other than sitting there looking at those folks. Fortunately for the owners of this place, the trail is now a lot wider based on our cutting down most of the greenery that was so pretty and lined the hikers walk! Anyway, after we got the car parked (sorted) in their grassy parking lot, we got up to our beautiful room (Sophy's) with the ocean view. This place is just unreal, the house is exactly as it appears on the tv series and there's a beautiful lounge with all sorts of information about the making of the show and the actors involved. The house itself is perched on top of a cliff and the views are absolutely spectacular - I do hope we can bring T&I and T here to see it! After a much needed refreshment (3) we headed into Portloe (1 minute drive away) and had some pub grub and some further refreshment at the Ship Inn. Met barmaids Eileen and Rosie and had a wonderful evening together discussing the upcoming week in St. Mawes at our very own rented house and the most welcome addition of Theresa & Ian and Tricia for this leg of our journey. Back to Broom Parc (from the famous Camomile Lawn TV series) at 9:30 - update the blog, nice warm drink and off to bed. It'll be a busy day tomorrow driving to Truro to pick TI&T up and back to St. Mawes house for a grand reunion. Weather was fabulous all day today and we feel so happy to be in Cornwall again.
We figured on a 3 1/2 hour drive to Broom Parc, Veryan, Truro, didn't count on the hour long delay on the M5 because a Lorry literally burst into flames and the 3 lane highway was all melded into one measly lane with enough traffic to fill an Island! Anyway, the day was beautiful and we spent the time listening to a call in radio show, so all in all it was a pretty good trip down to Cornwall (although much longer than we anticipated). We arrived in St. Austell and explored the town.... not the prettiest of places for sure, but it did have a big church which we walked around and took pictures of. Grabbed a Cornish Pasty and headed for Broom Parc for our 4pm check in. The GPS (George to us) is a wonderful thing and brought us right to the front door... well that's not exactly true. You can't actually drive to the front door, although we did......... so, after taking down half their hedge with our car Ron decided that yep, guess this is just too narrow for our car - must be a walking trail, so into reverse it was. Unfortunately, there were a couple of hikers trying to hike up the very steep hill we had driven down and then the owner arrived in her car!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The joys of not knowing where you are going and trying to reverse back up a very steep hill. At this point you need to know that I am totally mortified and wish the car had an ejection seat - I'd rather have been anywhere other than sitting there looking at those folks. Fortunately for the owners of this place, the trail is now a lot wider based on our cutting down most of the greenery that was so pretty and lined the hikers walk! Anyway, after we got the car parked (sorted) in their grassy parking lot, we got up to our beautiful room (Sophy's) with the ocean view. This place is just unreal, the house is exactly as it appears on the tv series and there's a beautiful lounge with all sorts of information about the making of the show and the actors involved. The house itself is perched on top of a cliff and the views are absolutely spectacular - I do hope we can bring T&I and T here to see it! After a much needed refreshment (3) we headed into Portloe (1 minute drive away) and had some pub grub and some further refreshment at the Ship Inn. Met barmaids Eileen and Rosie and had a wonderful evening together discussing the upcoming week in St. Mawes at our very own rented house and the most welcome addition of Theresa & Ian and Tricia for this leg of our journey. Back to Broom Parc (from the famous Camomile Lawn TV series) at 9:30 - update the blog, nice warm drink and off to bed. It'll be a busy day tomorrow driving to Truro to pick TI&T up and back to St. Mawes house for a grand reunion. Weather was fabulous all day today and we feel so happy to be in Cornwall again.
Ahhh i was literally laughing out loud (lol) at this post .. i could picture mum being mortified while dad tries to reverse up the hill.. so funny..thanks for sharing.. missing you both sooooooooooo much!!!!!! give aunt theresa and uncle ian and aunt tricia all huge hugs for me!! so glad your safe and enjoying everything.. LOVE the postcars.. thanks for being amazing parents.. always thinking of us kids.. missing you !!!!!!! xoxo
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