Caravan Travels

1.22pm – After another misty/foggy start the sun is finally trying to get through. We’ve had brunch at the caravan with Jacquie and Garry and are just getting around to preparing to get out this afternoon. We’re going to drive to Mevagissey which is about an hour away, and possibly visit Fowey on the way back, if time allows.

When I was about eight or nine years old I had a jigsaw puzzle of Mevagissey harbour. As a little boy growing up in North-East Scotland, places in Cornwall sounded exotically far-away and I thought I’d probably never travel so far. Some thirty years or so ago now I was on a family holiday and staying in Plymouth for a few days. Whilst staying there we drove to Mevagissey for a few hours one day, and I was glad to see that it was just like my jigsaw (not surprisingly!). I’m very much looking forward to seeing it again today too; I well-remember how good the ice-cream and Cornish pasties were!

4.27pm – We’re in Mevagissey. It’s not quite as I remember it, unfortunately. It looks like a place that’s been rather neglected and in-need of a lot of investment. The weather isn’t great, which isn’t helping, and the tide is fully-out, so the harbour is a bit pongy at the moment. However, we’ve just had really good Cornish pasties followed by great ice-cream. Those, at least, were just as I remembered them! Also, there is a really good Weird Fish clothing outlet just by the big car park. Helen and I both got bargains there. Not all bad then!

6.02pm – As everything was closing-up for the day in Mevagissey (everything seems to close around 4pm in Cornwall) we didn’t see any point in coming back to Looe via Fowey. We have three more full days here so we may have to go back to Fowey another day.