Falmouth in the sun

Monday 25th September
We are beginning to appreciate more and more, how romantic this cottage is, and what a lovely thing is the balcony.
Today started bright, warm and sunny and we had our breakfast outside, staying out to enjoy warmth, views and peacefulness. The first of the china clay trains snaked its way past.
With the sun continuing, we set off for Falmouth, via the community shop a couple of miles away in Tywardreath. With food in the cool bag, we continued past St Austell, Truro and on to Falmouth, where we took up the offer of park and ride – the park and float seeming an expensive option. The bus took us down to the main wharf and we walked back up the hill to a bakery that I had spotted, for excellent coffee and pastries. It seems as if artisan bread is catching on down here – several bakeries were offering sourdough bread.   We bought sausage and spicy chickpea rolls for lunch.
The town centre didn’t seem very familiar to either of us – I keep muddling it up with Weymouth.
We walked along the main shopping street and on past the docks, where several boats were under construction and we saw the covered up Pendennis boatyard, building worl-class superyachts. On up towards the leisure centre where we stopped to eat our little lunch, and then we carried on round the headland, round the outside of Pendennis Castle.
There was some confusion about how we get onto the south side of the headland, in order to find the beaches, but found our way down a little path, and then along the road. All the time, the sun was shining. Bought a drink at a café at the main beach and drank it watching swimmers and looking out at the sailing boats and much bigger ships moored off the coastline.
Up, over and back down to the town centre, we looked into a couple of clothing shops then went for excellent tea and cake in a very nice, but quiet café. Back to the bus and the car. The journey to Golant was slow and busy, but OK.
Glass of wine and crunchy nibbles on the verandah, then macaroni cheese with carrots and romanesque cauliflower. We are being driven slightly mad by the very odd cooker. It’s a sort-of Aga, which is running all the time and keeping the studio warm, but the hotplate is so slow!

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