Same Shirt, Different day-2012 Adventures of the "Devonport Wonder Babes"

Saturday 16^th June

Overcast and very windy to start with again, another superb breakfast delivered to the door by Lyn, packed and out the door by 10 am, stopped at Europcar in Penzance to see if Ben there to check the fuse for the charger connections but wouldn’t be there for an hour, off to bank and Tescos to get food since self-catering tonite at YHA Bracken Tor in Devon.

 Then headed for The Lizard (most southerly point in UK), got down very narrow road to lighthouse and YHA and disaster struck when we hit a rock with front passenger wheel and punctured the tyre. Were in NT car park about 11.15 am when discovered this, no cellphone reception which is ironic on the cliff top where Marconi first successfully experimented with wireless telegraph. Fortunately very nice man called Patrick in the NT car park hut allowed us to use the landline and to camp out in his hut whilst we called the Alamo/Europcar breakdown people cos 2^nd part to this is that we discovered there was no spare wheel in the car. Eventually Alamo tyre people said not possible to get new tyre of correct sort till Monday (In 2 days time!. What happened to 24hr/7 day week service). Then advised to phone RAC, infinitely better reception from them, promised patrol here by 2.55 pm, then rang back to say would be another hour, hopefully he will have a tyre with him. If all else fails there is the Lizard YHA about 200 metres away which has shared female  dorm accommodation available tonight. The Lizard NT area is full of eccentric English people wrapped up well and out doing serious walking ( with maps around their necks) or walking dogs. Cant even go to the lighthouse museum cos closed Saturdays.