Trelissick Gardens

Wednesday 25 July

Another blisteringly hot day today in Cornwall, up at the crack of dawn (well 8am anyway) and after showers and breakfast set off to Truro. We were quite surprised by what we saw of Truro and would have liked time to explore the town a bit. As it happened we had 3 missions to complete 

1. Tesco, food shopping

2. Halfords, cleaning materials for Campy

3. Lakeland, bits and pieces for Campy

On the way out we saw a really big camping shop and couldn't resist going in for a look. we bought some aluminium framed baskets that we had been looking for and a Cornish 'Burgee' (Flag) Kevin collects them and has a full set of the alphabet and numbers and lots of country flags. One day he will actually get them up.

By now we are both hungry and as Trelssick Gardens was not too far away we headed off and parked up in the National Trust car park. By now the heat from the sun was amazing and touching 28 degrees. We had our Brie baguettes and headed off into the gardens.

According to the info, Trelissick gardens were started over one hundred years ago and the there are still a number of original huge trees and woodlands to see. There were also wide open park lands and spectacular views across the estuary that leads to Falmouth and on to the sea. There is a very nice country house but it is not open to the public.

We particularly enjoyed the woodland walk along the side of the water which was shady and cool. We got so carried away that we somehow left the Gardens and did a huge circuit what put us right back at Campy in the car park. Re-entering the Gardens we really had to start again and this time took proper note of the map. Here are a selection of the pictures we took. There were a lot more but too many to put on here.

Stephen took Campy and us on another of his cross country jaunts which took us on an a lovely route back to camp.  We arrived back at about 5pm and almost immediately a sea fog closed in on us and the temperature plummeted. still it was a welcome break from the heat of the day.

Another fantastic day.