Fun Monday

Our lovely host for this week's Fun Monday is Alison at RDH Mom. Our assignment is this:

Vacations...this is the time of year when most of us go on vacations. Show us and/or tell us about your favorite vacation - where you went, what you did, etc. Pictures would be great. Let's all take a trip around a the world via our FM friends!!


We don't get to go on holiday very often. Himself is self-employed so holidays cost him twice as much - the cost of the holiday and the loss of pay for the time we're away. But when we do go, we invariably head to the West Country, and Cornwall in particular.

I don't know what it is about Cornwall that draws me to it. There is, of course, the Celtic connection between Wales and Cornwall, but it's more than that. I always feel like I have come home when I am there. Maybe I lived there in a previous life? It's the rugged north coast that I love to go to. I could sit of hours on the top of a cliff and watch the sea crashing against the rocks or lose myself wandering around Tintagel Castle and along the cliff path.

Photo courtesy of Google (I'm not where my photos are!)

Further down the coast, past the twee Port Isaac, is Rock. You can park up at Rock and either take the ferry across to Padstow or, do as we do, and walk along the coast up to Daymar Bay, stopping en route at St Enodoc Church where Sir John Betjeman is buried.

If you drive past Rock, through Padstow and out into the countryside you can, if you know the little secret roads, eventually find yourself at Hawkers Cove. Which is possibly one of my favourite places on this planet!

The Lurchers and Himself at Hawkers Cove a few years ago.

Lurcher No.2 enjoying the sea

We haven't been down to Cornwall for about three years now, but writing this post has given me pangs to get down there again!

Head on over to Alison's place and find out where everyone else likes to take their holidays.