Cornwall

The Lost Gardens of Heligan - shouldn't these be the Gardens of Heligan now that they have been found? Anyway, they were very pretty, especially the jungle bit. I do like that you can step into the middle of a jungle (see bottom pic) in the UK.



The Eden Project. I'd been warned it was boring and perhaps this low expectation is what made it so enjoyable - I really did love the Rainforest biome (pictured). I know the giftshop is commercial and the organic kitchen where food is served on wooden boards and the lemonade costs £2 is fairly pretentious but it doesn't detract at all from the excitement of coming across the great big futuristic biodomes lying in front of you in an old clay pit, surrounded by thousands of plants planted and weeded by over 50 gardeners. Also, the white hot air balloon they use to get to the tops of the trees to prune them looks so Victorian in this futuristic setting - it's wonderful.



View from Fowey on a grey day - we had seafood and pizza and I heard a woman shout at a seagull for stealing her sandwich.



Surfers at Watergate Bay. We did some surfing and it was fun. There were some genuinely perilous moments - at one point Thom actually surfed over me, quite a trick on his part, and I watched the white board float over my head in a pretty relaxed state all things considered.




We went for a walk between Watergate Bay and Newquay - it was positively tropical!