Sunday 17th June
Lovely RAC man returned from getting new tyre in Penzance
about 7 pm last night (which he then replaced still in the howling gale) by
which time we had checked into to The Lizard YHA where we spent the night in shared room
with 3 other women , 2 of whom were up at 6 am to go diving. Very
comfortable hostel to spend a very stormy night and then today dawned sunny and
clear with just a light breeze Had spent some time last night at tea time
talking about some of our “favourite politicians” and discussing the huge rabbit population in
Cornwall with Glenys and Roy from New
Brighton in Christchurch.
Up and away by about 8.15 and headed for St Agnes to check
out the cemetery in the middle of the village, within about 5 min I had found
the grave of my 4x great grandparents ( Paul and Elizabeth Penrose). It is in
very good condition and I suspect some other descendant has looked after I well.
Had a bit of a stroll down the main street and then went off for our daily
National Trust fix which today was an Elizabethan manor house called Trerice
near Newquay,accessible via very narrow lanes which were also being used by
horse riders. Tried the clotted cream
morning tea ( goes on the list of other English things only needing to be tried
once, like chip buttys and Cornish pastys !).
Then off to Calstock to check out
another set of 4xgggg, found the St Andrews church and graveyard which was high
above the village and where a christening was happening. Checked out some of
the headstones but a bit jumbled and many difficult to read, would need some
further serious work to discover anything there.
Then we were on our way to YHA Exford (on Exmoor) for the
night via a village called Kelly in Devon for some more ancestor hunting. At
3.30pm we stopped at a Texaco station in a village called Gunnislake, Cornwall
to fill up tank. I got out and did this and realised after 30 litres had gone
into the tank that I had put in lead free petrol instead of diesel, all 42 gbp
worth!! Phoned RAC again and after a couple of hours discussion back and forth
a tow truck arrived to move the car away from pumps, but then the man just
rolled it down to front of forecourt where it will be accessible to RAC man who
will come tomorrow morning to pump out the contaminated fuel so that we can
spend a fortune filling it up again just with diesel. It is really upsetting to
have had these two incidents one after another since we have driven thousands
of miles in rental cars and had one puncture in Crete in 1997 which we fixed in
5 minutes!!
As yesterday, we had to cancel and forfeit our pre paid YHA
stay ( cancelled within 24 hrs) but
again there was some accommodation
available within walking distance so we
are staying at the Drakewells Bed and Breakfast plus the garage staff and towie
were all really helpful and pleasant to deal with and the RAC man says heaps of
people do this everyday.
Walked down to the local pub called "The Rifle Volunteer" and had a very nice meal at very reasonable price along with pint of cornish beer and nice view down the Tamar Valley.
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