CornwallZambo wrote:Itinerary for Cornwall. Anyone been there and can think of anything else woth doing/seeing?
Base Truro
Port Isaac
Treyarnon Bay
Newquay
Lands End
Cape Cornwall
Minack Theatre
Penzance
Marazion (Ben's Kitchen)
St Ives
Lost Gdns of Heligan
Readymoney Cove
Trebah Gdns
Pendennis Castle
Lanhydrock House/Gdns
I went 3 weeks ago
I walk to the Cheesewrings from the village of Minions (The minions came and changed the sign the day before we got there - great for the kids they loved having their picture taken with it) they also have 3 circles of standing stones.
If your missus enjoyed Poldark, it's worth going round the locations of where they filmed it. All easily found on the internet - I didn't watch it, but have started to watch it now so I can see the places we'd been.
Boscastle is lovely, the witch museum is there which is very interesting - if you look at the very old building opposite the witch museum you will see the finest example of a newbuild anywhere - The original got washed away in the floods 10 years ago.
Padstow is pretty as is St Michaels Mount
Tintagel castle is glorious on a sunny day.
Go to Retallack resort and spa and have a go on the flowrider - and artificial wave, great fun £25 for the hour with an instructor, I was standing up by the end of the first lesson. Then have Dinner in their "green room" restaurant. Superb food from an ex masterchef winner.
We stayed there in one of the lakeside houses, it was absolutely superb, even had a hot tub on the balcony, I'd happily live in one of those.
IF you haven't booked anywhere to stay you couldn't do better location wise, it's near pretty much everything - the furthest place away was lands end and that only took us an hour but padstow, boscastle, newquay, charlestown all about 15 minutes from it.
http://www.retallackresort.co.uk/
Don't go to Lands End - it's shit.
There was something windswept and interesting about it when it was just a signpost and fuck all else, you really did get the feeling that you were at the end of the country, now they've built a shitty tourist area with crappy souvenir shops and shitty cafe restaurant type places there's even a shaun the sheep experience - which granted you'll like, but it's got fuck all to do with Lands end.
The whole place is just tacky, even the kids thought it was shit.