Tintagel Magic

Fantastic day today:
- Tintagel castle and Merlin's cave lived up to expectations - we spent most of day exploring all the nooks of the ruins, poking about in tide pools, taking a small hike along the very windy 'Barras Nose' bluff, and throwing skimming stones on the beach. Even Theo gushed, 'this place is wonderful!'
- Had best Cornish pasties EVER for lunch followed by super van-made cream tea (we all agreed this one was a 9 out of 10 - a holiday best)
- Even Rosie's continued grumblings didn't get us down as we headed back to Branscombe. We had another great meal at the Mason's Arms Pub before settling down with a roaring camp fire at Combe View Farm (much sunnier this time around).
Photo is us admiring view north along coast from Tintagel.

Disaster!

Rosie broke down.... well kind of... actually she just ran out of petrol. It was just that it look me about 45 minutes of tinkering the engine bay to work it out! Mum very kindly thumbed a lift off a kind lady to get to the garage 2 miles down the road.
After all that adventure we were ready for some escapism and camped at Tintagel, home of the castle of Arthurian legend... more on that tomorrow... for now we are chilling out at the local fish restaurant - yum!

TLC for Rosie

'Dad, why are those dogs not smiling?' puzzled Mae. It was with questions of similar profoundness that we continued our holiday.
Today, an altogether brighter and sunnier day, we plan to let the boys exhaust themselves on their bikes, take Rosie for some therapy at 'Cornish Auto Electrics' (this time we will try a 15v 22uF tantalum capacitor between pins 2 and 4 on the air mass flow sensor plus we'll swap the fuel pump relays - fingers crossed one of those work - otherwise it'll be a new ECU costing mucho cher-ching!) while we enjoy a pub lunch, and then we might take Theo to try his boogie board again (yesterday he went in despite the cold wind - only 14 seconds before his lips turned blue...).

Mae's musings...

This morning it was lashing it down as we head to visit the old Levant steam engine, and Mae says 'are we going to the beach today Dad?'...

Fever in the Sun

Sam says 'If I look into the sun, I can see through my brain'. So while the sun has been shining on us at St Ives (a stunning place; beautiful narrow streets lined with old fisherman's cottages, golden beach), Rosie-induced cabin fever has truly set in. Oh, we saw some nice Cornish wind turbines too - hence the photo.

This morning we woke to...

...sunshine!!! Yeah!!! I have to admit, the country looks spectacular after a good shower. Let's hope the clear blue sky lasts...