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Veryan Campsite pt4

31 October 2012 / Camping, Outdoor Gear, Travel / camping, coffee, Cornwall, Crusader Cook Set, England, outdoor gear

Morning coffee before Jeremy gets up -boiled up in my Crusader Cookset but using my Vargo Ti meths burner as it is cleaner than solid fuel tablets. Even though we have an MSR Pocket Rocket gas stove with us the meths burner still gets a lot of use, especially when we need to boil water for both of us – and we are not in a hurry. It also is a good second burner when cooking – again best for boiling water. The down side is it takes a bit longer to boil the water compared to the MSR stove.

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Mevagissey

30 October 2012 / Camping, Photography, Travel / camping, Cornwall, England, tea

Another good weather day following a night of on and off showers.

Mevagissey is great place to visit, even with all it’s tourist shops it is still a working fishing village, with character. It also has free attractions, something rare in Cornwall, a really good museum and an aquarium.

One thing to remember though is that the streets are one car wide so park in the first car park (on the left) you come to, it is only a couple of hundred metres to walk to the village and it is better than trying to drive on Mevagissey streets.

Back at the campsite we had tea and cinnamon doughnuts whilst sitting outside watching the sunset.

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Another Cornish Sunset

29 October 2012 / Camping, Photography, Travel / camping, Cornwall, England, IT Support for Lincolnshire, Octagon Technology, Photos 2012

Another Cornish sunset from the Camping and Caravan Club site at Veryan – and another picture of my tent.

It is now a very nice evening, it is dark, and there is no wind and it is not cold either. We are sitting outside having made some hot drinks, Jeremy is reading and I am blogging with a candle for extra light.

Diana is out this evening at Business Club promoting Octagon’s Disaster Recovery Seminar whilst we watch the sunset.

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Veryan Campsite pt3

29 October 2012 / Camping, Photography, Travel / camping, Cornwall, England, Photos 2012, tea

It rained hard overnight – no leaks in either tent, but lots of flapping nylon and loud, beating rain. I had tea in my tent early, as I forgot to turn off the 6.30am work alarm but by the time Jeremy was getting up the sun had come out and we had breakfast outside.

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Veryan Campsite pt2

28 October 2012 / Camping, Photography, Travel / camping, Cornwall, England, Photos 2012

Veryan Camping and Caravan Club Site, Cornwall – there is a small lake on the site and I was able to wall around it before the rain came. Jeremy was still in bed.

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Veryan Campsite pt1

27 October 2012 / Camping, Travel / camping, Cornwall, England

Sausage and Mash for dinner – cooked and eaten outside in brilliant sunshine – but we did need jumpers!

me cooking it

Jeremy eating it

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Camping in Cornwall

27 October 2012 / Camping, Photography, Travel / camping, Cornwall, England, Photos 2012

Today is the first day of Jeremy’s and my annual Autumn Half-term camping trip to Veryan Campsite in Cornwall.

We travelled down overnight to arrive in St Austell for breakfast. It was cold but sunny but by the time we came to walk around the town it had started to warm up.

St Austell

The campsite is quite near the coast – so when we came to put the tents up the wind had picked up a bit – but the sun was out and it was still warm!

Rather than bringing our two-person tent, we are using two one-man tents as practice for a backpacking trip we are planning for next summer. This has meant reorganising the menu to being mainly “add boiling water”, backpacking food as we have limited indoor space to cook in. In addition we are storing the food and cooking gear in the car rather than in the tent.

As it gets dark early in October (and even earlier this year as the clocks change tomorrow) we bring a small laptop PC with us which we watch DVDs on, whilst sitting in the back of the car – so not having the two-person tent living area is not such an issue in the evening.

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