We took off Friday to travel down as it was about 4 hours for this trip. We stopped at Clovelly which is a small fishing village that is closed to cars. To be honest, we didn’t bother going down to the village to have a look as you actually have to pay an entry fee. One thing we did come away from Cornwall with was a bit of a sour taste in the mouth as to the commercialism of the area. Everywhere you turned you had to pay for parking and/or entry to anything of interest. We also just didn’t get the feeling that they were happy to have visitors to some places. Almost like it was a given that tons of tourists come to the area so why should they be pleasant as there are plenty more of us.

Having said this our B&B was a treasure of a find. Bosvargus Barns run by Ann and Neil was immaculately clean, stylish and a real testament to how B&B’s should be presented and run. We normally dread the greasy English cooked breakfast in the morning but the cooking here was superb. You could also choose what you wanted so we didn’t have to waste the sausages, mushrooms and tomatoes that we normally leave on the plate.

On Saturday the run left from the Cape Cornwall Golf Club which has been far and away the best race base so far. It has to be fab when this one had a pool, spa and sauna that could be used by the runners! Bliss.

Steve managed a PB (personal best) on this one so that was great news. I found a lovely walking partner to do the 10km with so that made the time go by even quicker. Later that night we treated ourselves to a pizza in St Ives and sat by the beach to soak up the sun (and the cheesy deliciousness of our pizza and salty anchovies – at least on my half!). Not sure that this was such a good idea after such a great day of exercise!

Sunday on the way home we stopped in at the Minack Theatre at Porthcurno and of course Land’s End, the “end” of England. Funnily enough this place boasts a lot of signs that say the “last inn”, the “last postbox” etc but all of these “last” so and so’s have all since be closed down. Guess that doesn’t make it the last one then?

Also, quick thought, very interesting that this trip felt like a tour of Sydney suburbs going to Clovelly, St Ives, there is even a Padstow etc. Funny how so much of England was “transported” to Australia and New Zealand.

Today we took off early Friday morning and headed to Cornwall stopping in at Clovelly, Bude, Tintagel and finally to St Just only 10 minutes from race base. We have popped in to the Golf Club for an early registration tonight so we can sleep in tomorrow.

The place we are staying in is lovely, quiet and clean. We’ll see how breakfast goes in the morning.