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Tresillian

2 November 2012 / Camping, Travel / camping, Cornwall, England, tea

Jeremy and I spent the morning in Truro – mainly in the Royal Cornwall Museum.

On the way back to the campsite we stopped at one of our favourite tea rooms – Tresillian Garden Centre. We have visited it each time we have camped at Veryan just for the Cornish Cream Tea – it cannot be beaten for quality or value. Real Cornish clotted cream and warm fruit scones and jam produced in the village. Cost £3.00 each.

Here is how to find it. It is on the right as you leave the village (before crossing the bridge), on the A390 heading for St Austell.

Tresillian Garden Centre

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Veryan Campsite pt6

2 November 2012 / Camping, Photography, Travel / camping, Cornwall, Photos 2012, tea

This was the view whilst I was drinking my tea this morning.

And the complete arch… again.

click on the above image for a larger version

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Sunset at the Campsite

1 November 2012 / Camping, Photography / camping, Cornwall

The changeable weather makes for great sunsets.

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St Mawes

1 November 2012 / Camping, Walking / camping, Cornwall, rainbow

We parked up in St Mawes today and between the showers, hail and the rainbows had a walk through the village and along the coast and beach.

St Mawes Castle

More hot chocolate for Jeremy, with more whipped cream and a homemade double choc muffin – he needs to keep his strength up.

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Veryan Campsite pt5

1 November 2012 / Camping, Photography, Travel / camping, coffee, Cornwall, Photos 2012, rainbow

Another night of rain but again it stopped in time for me to have my breakfast outside in the sunshine.

With the showers there was a rainbow over the tents whilst I was having coffee.

And here are the raindrops on my MSR Hubba tent.

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Falmouth

31 October 2012 / Camping, Photography / camping, Cornwall, England, Photos 2012, tea

Once Jeremy was up we decided to spend a wet day in Truro, however the car parks were full – so we we t to Falmouth.

We found an excellent old fashioned department store, to shelter in whilst the rain was at its heaviest. Trago stocked everything, it had electric guitars, to kitchen stuff, furniture to shower stalls, to Christmas stuff to cosmetics – it really defies description. We bought some drysacks for backpacking, some beakers with snap on lids that fit neatly inside our Ti mugs and a small zippered pouch for tea bags, sugar etc.

With the day getting darker and wetter we decided to go back to the campsite for a triple bill of DVDs.

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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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