Diary

Friday, 02 October, 2020
After work I headed over to Heathrow for my evening flight down to Cornwall…
Saturday, 03 October, 2020
The hotel could only offer me a slot for breakfast at either 07:00 or 10:15…
Sunday, 04 October, 2020
I managed to get a reasonable nights sleep, despite the howls of wind and the hammering of rain on the windows…

Diary

Monday, 04 April, 2005
I arrived at Paddington 2 1/2 hours before the departure of the sleeper. Unfortunately this coincided exactly with all the café's and restaurants closing!
Tuesday, 05 April, 2005
Tuesday started earlier than planned. I had booked an alarm call and breakfast from the steward for 7:30, instead my alarm call was the sound of "...03:40 First Great Western service to Penzance calling at..."
Wednesday, 06 April, 2005
After a very comfortable nights sleep, and a delicious breakfast I headed out to the bus station and on to Geevor. Tin has been mined here for hundreds of years and Geevor was one of the last to close as foreign competition and falling prices made Cornish
Thursday, 07 April, 2005
Early start to the day as I was catching the 9:20 flight to Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly. After checking out of the hotel (but the landlord very kindly allowing me to leave my bags) I got a cab to the Heliport, as the only way onto Tresco is by heli
Thursday, 30 September, 2021
Its quite a long way down to the tip of Cornwall, so I’d split my journey up into two legs…
Friday, 01 October, 2021
As I’d been able to come down the previous evening to Plymouth it meant I only needed to book a half days annual leave…
Saturday, 02 October, 2021
I’d packed my waterproof clothes as the weather forecast for most of the preceding week had suggested it was going to be wet…
Sunday, 03 October, 2021
I had breakfast in the hotel and then checked-out and headed, once more, over to the bus station to pick up the first bus heading up the coast to the neighbouring town of Marazion…

Diary

Friday, 22 September, 2006
I finished work at lunchtime and headed up to Paddington. An eventless, but slow journey later…
Saturday, 23 September, 2006
The weather forecast for the previous week had been predicting gloom and doom for the whole South West portion of England…
Sunday, 24 September, 2006
There are two major issues I have with Cornwall. One is the fact that the public transport, whilst reliable, isn't…
Monday, 25 September, 2006
Despite feeling quite so sleepy the previous evening, it had taken some time to fall asleep on the train, and I had assumed that I would keep waking up through the night…