Friday 15th June
Stopped raining briefly, then started again. Beautiful
breakfast delivered to the door with homemade apple juice, marmalade, crab apple
jelly, muesli, fruit bowl, yoghurt and very nice coffee.
Off to Porthcurno (about 10 miles thru some very narrow
lanes) to the Telegraph Museum ( because my grandfather Mackenzie was an
engineer on one of the ships that laid the submarine cables-interesting tunnels
built in solid granite rock in 1940 because of the strategic importance of this
site) fascinating exhibitions of all manner of telegraphic equipment and talk and
demonstration from Sue, climbed the escape route tunnel up 4 flights of stairs dodging the nesting
swallows. Then afterwards walked down to beach where raging seas and red flags
( beach closed sign) were no deterrent to one fool clad just in his underpants
trying to go for swim (lifeguard had to tell him twice not to go into water-Lyn
later told us there have been 4 rescues at that beach in last 3 weeks). Then
nasty shock of parking ticket for overstaying our park and pay by 30
minutes-not so much the ticket but the cost -85GBP reduced to 50GBP if paid in
14 days. Rain had stopped and sun out but howling winds so picnic in the car.
Then continued on to todays National Trust site the Levant
Mine and Beam Engine right on the edge of towering cliffs where they have
restored and have working the 1840 steam engine used for the winding cables to
pull the copper and tin ore up out of the mine. Even bigger than the
restored steam engines on the ferries in Lake Lucerne. We walked along a short tunnel to the Man-Engine shaft where the miners were
lowered down to the mining tunnels some of which were about 500 metres deep and
extended a mile out under the Atlantic ocean. Gale force wind along these
cliffs.
Then back to The Flower Shed and walked down the path through the woods to Mousehole
where we spent a couple of pleasant hours in the Ship Inn , very nice dinner in
the bar-Newlyn crab salad and beautiful chips and a couple of pints of St
Austell beer and on tap pear cider for Lynds (cider is very big in this part of
the world), then watched first half of Euro 2012 soccer game between England
and Sweden. And of course when we left to walk home again the heavens opened up
again.
( have discovered that the Google maps app on iPad is fantastic,
never need a hard copy map again, and
works well when off line, especially with Location feature so a little blue dot
moves down the road with you and you can double check that you are going where
you want to go, cos sometimes the SatNav thinks it knows better)
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