Cornish Holiday May 2002 - page 2
Continuing our Cornwall holiday we stopped off at the
Cornish Cyder Farm at Penhallow to learn how cider is made, then
visited the quaint harbour town of Fowey. For our healthy walk
day we walked part of the Camel Trail from Bodmin towards
Wadebridge. Oo-ar - hey, we're sounding like real Cornish
countryman now!
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We visited the Cornish Cyder Farm, (no we haven't mis-spelt 'cider')
and sampled some lovely cider, then followed the ancient process of
cider making on the engrossing guided tour taking in the press house
and bottlery, and of course the farm shop.
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Oh my gosh, just look at all this Scrumpy cider! Belinda was in
her element here, a chance to buy souvenirs for everybody - including
herself! The farm shop at the Cornish Cyder Farm also sold
Cornish fudge and many other gifts too.
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Well, you can't go to a cider farm and not try it. Mmmm,
nice! (How many times did you sample the Scrumpy?) The
Cornish Cyder Farm is near Newquay at Penhallow and is the largest
Cornish Cyder producer in Cornwall.
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Next day we had planned to take the ferry across the river at Fowey and
do the Hallwalk, a walk around Bodinnick, but because of the rotten
weather it wasn't running. No worries, instead we took a look
round this rather charming Cornish town...
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...including the old part of Fowey with its steep and narrow winding
streets, some cobbled. We ended up in South Street, full of
individual shops, cafés and galleries where we bought some fudge.
This lasted all of five minutes, so we next headed to...
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...the pub for lunch, the same Fowey pub Mike remembered downing a pint
of shandy some 30 years ago (which went straight to his head!) as a
young teenager with his parents. See our UK tourist resources page for
Cornwall websites.
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This handy telescope enabled us to look across the River Fowey towards
Polruan, a smugglers haven in the olden days. We discovered the
world famous author Daphne Du Maurier lived in this part of Cornwall
and loved the Cornish coast here so we...
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...walked a short part of it via the South West Coast Path towards the
old castle ruins at St. Catherine's Point. Pity the ferry wasn't
running across the River Fowey, we'd have loved to explore
Polruan. Hey, take a look at our Cornwall video clips page.
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The Camel Trail is an 11 mile (return) walk from Bodmin to Wadebridge,
following the route of a disused railway trackbed. The weather
looked extremely uncertain, but we packed our lunch and waterproofs and
went anyway.
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Notice the puddles on the Camel Trail at Bodmin, yes, it rained -
hard! You can see the old platform to the left in this shot; in
fact, we passed many old platforms seemingly in the middle of nowhere
and it gave us an attack of the 'whys?'.
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This is Boscarne Junction station, where the Camel Trail joins the
preserved steam powered Bodmin and Wenford Railway. Unfortunately
the railway's 2002 steaming season didn't start until the following
week so we couldn't take a ride.
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Out of walking boots and back to trainers. The weather had
deteriorated further by the time we completed the Camel Trail walk.
Our Cornish holiday continues with a visit to the popular surfing town of Newquay >>>
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