Cornwall Oct 11

Greetings all.  Having technical problems so the blog will be updated once a week until further notice.  Hope to have the problem resolved soon.

Anyway, just had a cracking week down in Cornwall.  Stayed just outside Boscastle at a village called Crackington Haven.  The weather held good and the County was quiet so felt like we had the run of the place.  Visited lot's of places including Boscastle, Padstow, Lands End, Bedrutthen Steps, Polperro and the Eden Project.  It's a great county.  As usual had some great local food and beer and I highly recomend 'the Riverside' if you are in Boscastle.

Anyway, here's a taster of the week..

looking from the harbour side back towards the hamlet of Boscastle

Jo and Alfie on holiday - sat on the Rocks past the harbour at Boscastle

Cornwall is well known for it's dramatic vista's - here i'm amongst the rock pools of Widemouth Bay

The beach at Bedrutthen steps...

Have taken the tricky and steep ascent to the beach at Bedrutthen steps..

Fowey - great harbour town, great fish and chips!

The Eden Project - interesting place

Outside the 'Tropical Rainforest Biosphere'  Blue skies outside!

At my favourite Cornish fishing village - Polperro.
Just about to have a pint of Cornish Knocker at the blue Peter Inn!

Polperro 

Sennen Cove - just outside Lands End

Went to Lands End.  The RAF were on an exercise..

Ooh to, Ooh to be, Ooh to be a RHINO!

Well what a day yesterday.  The Grand Final at Old Trafford, Leeds Rhinos v St Helens.  The colours were donned, the car loaded and off we we went to Scumchester to support the mighty RHINOS.  Ollie was making his first ever trip to support the lads, here's the tale of the day..

Just parked up and ready to go to the ground.."Come Oooooon Leeeeeds!"

Go Ollie..

At the 'sty' and it's only right to pay my respects...



Taking our seats in the 'Garbage dump' as Ollie calls it..Good lad.



Game on ..from the £21 seats..

Half time, in the lead and we're enjoying it!

"Yeeeeeesssssss!"

"We've won Dad!!!"

"Leeds Leeds Leeds!"

The lads with the Trophy..

We've won it again Ed...

Enough said.....

The Malham Mountain

This Sunday I told Ollie we were going to climb a mountain.  "Ok.." he said rather nonchalently.  So, it was off to Malham, Malham Cove to be exact.  He thought I was joking. 

We parked up and off we trotted through the village up to the Cove.  His face was a picture when he saw it..."We can't climb that, it's too steep, it's a rock face!!" he rather worriedly said.  I told him not to worry and that by lunchtime he would be on top of it...

The funny thing is, the closer we got to it the higher and more vertical it became, i think he was slightly worried.

This is the Cove. It stands 260ft high (80 metres) and 300 metres wide, quite imposing.

"You want me to climb that!"

God loves a tryer..

Keep trying....





At this point i said we needed to put our heads together and think about how were going to get to the top.  I said I have a plan.......I'm going to use the steps..lol!

Ollie hadn't noticed the steps to the right of the Cove that take you all the way to the summit!

We did it son...it's er...a bit high..



"Wow Dad...I'm on top of the World!"

The view from the top is quite spectacular, the fine mist couldn't spoil the view Sunday..

It would appear that we are not the only ones to have ventured oop top...

This is a still taken from the film 'Harry Potter and the deathly Hallows'.  The Cove and the limestone

pavement were used in the filming..

That's Harry's tent in the background and beyond that views of Malham dale..