Starting my coverage of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
Welcome to my latest post about my Cornish Winter Break. In my last post in this series I paved the way for a series of posts about the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. I now commence with the ground floor.
The ground floor of this museum contained a wide variety of boats, with accompanying detail about their history.
The first of several posts in my Cornish Winter Break series relating to Falmouth.
I continue my series about my Cornish Winter Break. Today’s is the first of what will be quite a few posts dealing with the last trip that I made as part of that holiday. This trip was unique in two ways among those I made during this holiday:
My mother and I got on the train at St Germans at 10:36, changed at Truro for the shuttle service to Falmouth Docks, and arrived at Falmouth just after 12:00. Falmouth was a planned port, first built in the late 16th century to provide an extra starting point for the export of china (it was intended to augment the existing port of Fowey, not challenge it – the person who planned it was actually a native of Fowey). It is a magnificent setting (my camera battery ran out before the end of the trip, but not before I had taken some fine pictures). After a pause to orient ourselves we headed for the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, which will get several posts of its own. The museum occupied as for quite some time, and then we had a brief look at the rest of the town, but I was getting tired by then, and we headed back not very long after finishing at the museum. I intend to revisit both the town and the museum.
Setting the scene for a series of posts about my holiday in Cornwall.
I spent Christmas and the New Year in Cornwall, staying at my parent’s place. In this post I set the stage for series of posts to come about the things I did while there. In addition to eight places of interest (some of which merit rather more than a single post, or indeed a single visit) I will also be describing the cooking of a meal for six, which will be accompanied by some general pictures from the vicinity of my parents place. In the rest of this post I will set out the order for the rest of the series as an appetizer.
Definitely worth a visit if you are in that part of the world.
This is a truly astonishing place and one that will repay many visits. I will certainly be devoting more than one post to my visit there this holiday.
Only a little of this place was open, and I hope to see more of it in due course.
The least impressive of the places we visited.
An extraordinarily scenic place, will be getting several posts in this series.
This is well known to fans of Daphne Du Maurier and/ or Rosamunde Pilcher. We stopped there on the way back from Tintagel.
I enjoyed visiting this town, though as you will see when I post about it I consider it over-hyped.
This was a success.
The last activity of the holiday – and talk about finishing on a high note. I will certainly be revisiting this town
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