UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

After we arrived at East Wheal Rose on the Lappa Valley narrow gauge steam railway we headed to the café for lunch, then looked at the old mine engine house before playing crazy golf.  Lappa Valley website link and other Cornwall websites on our UK tourist links page.
 

We tried the woodland trail at the Lappa Valley railway, a short but pleasant walk to some more old mine working areas with a quarry and a well.  On our return we had a look in the inevitable gift shop, but Belinda must be losing her touch as she didn't buy anything!

The tower with the oil drum on top is where they fill the Lappa Valley steam engines with water.  You can see the boating lake in this picture and there's also two other, even narrower gauge railways at the old mine to ride on.

Belinda looks all cosy in the carriage for the journey back on the Lappa Valley railway.  Actually it was rather bumpy and windy with the open style windows, but great fun riding along with the smell of the steam billowing through.
 

We visited the Cornish Cyder Farm, (no we haven't mis-spelt it) and sampled some cider and saw the ancient process of cider making on the guided tour, taking in the press house and bottlery, oh, and, of course, the farm shop!

"Oh my gosh, just look at all this 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 did Cornish fudge and many other gifts too.
 

Well, you can't go to a cider farm and not try it.  Mmmm, nice!  (How many times did you sample it then, Belinda?).  That looks like a CCTV camera in the roof filming all your sampling, they'll charge you for all the cider you drank!

Next day we had hoped 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.  Mike's well equipped with all his cameras round him here!
 

We had a pub lunch in Fowey, in the same pub that Mike had a pint of Shandy in some 30 years ago as a young teenager with his parents!  He recalled how it went straight to his head.  After lunch we bought some fudge that lasted all of 15 minutes!

Here's Belinda looking across the River Fowey through the telescope towards Polruan.  It would've been interesting over there as it was an old smugglers haven in the olden days.  (Er, no quips here about Mike's age please Belinda).
 

The sun was shining as we went for a short walk along the South West Coast Path towards the old castle ruins at St. Catherine's Point.  Here we're looking across the River Fowey towards Polruan.
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The Camel Trail is an 11 mile (return) walk from Bodmin to Wadebridge, following the route of a disused railway.  The weather looked very uncertain, but we packed our lunch and waterproofs and went anyway!  Continues on Cornwall page 3 >>