UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

Here's Mike at the Eden Project on our first day of our Cornwall holiday with lots of straps round him for the cameras and backpack.  This picture was taken just before walking down to the biomes (that's the giant bubble-wrap greenhouses).
 

Belinda here, seen outside the biomes and itching to get in.  The Eden Project was certainly popular with visitors and this was on a May weekday with not such great weather, we suspect it'll be even more crowded in peak season.

Inside the Humid Tropical Biome and immediately everyone took their coats off - the temperature is controlled to a tropically humid 28ºC.  Everything looked lush and green with many species of plants from many different parts of the world.

As we climbed higher it got hotter and hotter, there was a cool room near the top for flagging people.  The Eden Project is the world's largest environmentally controlled glass-house, costing £74 million and creating 545 jobs over 16 years.
 

At one of many information points to tell you all about it - Mike definitely agreed with the message that said to eat!  Note the guy on the left with a rather old fashioned looking mobile phone ringing Dr Who to tell him where bits of his Tardis are!

We're now in the other biome at the Eden Project in Cornwall, called the Warm Temperate Biome and this one was much cooler than the first one.  It contains plant species from the Mediterranean, South Africa and California.
 

One of several talks and demonstrations going on inside the biomes.  Check out the Eden Project website for the full story with details of opening times and tons of information on plant species, see our UK tourist links page.

We stayed at Belinda's friend's flat in Bodmin to look after her two kittens, Charlie and Billy.  Mike called him Biffy owing to his habit of biffing you with his head, especially while sleeping.  Changing the cat litter seemed to fall to Mike on this Cornwall holiday!
 

This is at the entrance to the Lappa Valley narrow gauge steam railway at the sign that tells visitors all about it.  It's an old mineral line that runs from Newquay to East Wheel Rose in olden times (Mike knows all about that!).
 

Here's the driver oiling his engine prior to taking us along to the old mine workings area.  There are two engines, Zebedee and Muffin, and the route runs for two miles through the beautiful Cornish countryside.  More Lappa Valley railway and Cornwall on page 2 >>