Sunday 18th August
Newlyn fishquay and a toasted crab sandwich , Landsend and Linda’s
Birthday Up early, I am almost always up with the Sparra’s , a quick breakfast and headed along the coast in the direction of Newlyn, I had misread the hoarding, I thought that it was the weekend of the Newlyn seafood festival, alas it was the next weekend so the town was very quiet (it may be just as well as I think it would be absolutely packed and hectic). We headed for the Fish quay, the tide was just on the turn and the shallows of the harbour was full of mullet and other inshore small fish.
Across the bay was a nice view to Penzance and St Michaels Mount.
But I noticed a fishing boat coming in, so we went along to watch the unloading and had quite a good chat with the stevedore.
A rusting fishing hulk
Chatting with the crew
Discharging the catch of squid, dogfish, octopus but most was flatfish
Megram sole
Dover sole
The discharge finished the crew headed for the pub for a well earned pint, then off home for a sleep
We then went to the head of the harbour and saw that they were advertising toasted Crab Sandwiches, so that was our lunch and very tasty it was as well.
It was now back to the car park built
on a steep slope just past the old harbour (on reflection I think all car parks in Cornwall are built on
slopes).
That done, we headed for the Minack theatre, Linda convinced me that it would be better to take the second entrance, she had noticed this while driving to Landsend, alas this put on about 40 km and an hour’s drive, we arrived and silly me decided to try for the top car-park. And, that was where it happened, at a bend in the road there was enough space to turn the van, by using a residents parking area, Linda had dismounted and had directed me back and forwards, to and fro until I was pointing down instead of up to the stars, she was getting back into the passenger’s side, pushing off on her left leg to reach the step and the back of her leg went ping and she screamed. After a bit of manoeuvring in the bottom car park we decided it was a useless problem, so decided to head back to Coverack. She thought it would be better to go to the Falmouth hospital A&E to get her knee checked out, so after 2 hours and a pair of crutches later we headed back to the campsite.
Linda had booked at the lifeboat house in Coverack for her birthday dinner, this had to be un-booked due to the lateness but also to her inability to either ascend or descend the exceedingly steep road from the campsite. I therefore cooked what we had in the fridge.
So Linda’s Birthday meal 2013 was:
Melon with Serrano ham
Fried Duck eggs, M&S dry cured bacon, venison and wild boar sausages and chilli bratwurst.
Blue Vinney, farmhouse chedder, Rheda air dried ham, water biscuits.
With the meal we drank a cold sekt (German sparkling wine).
So even though we didn’t go out for dinner, what we had wasn’t at all bad. I think it is called making the best of a bad job. Even the Neighbours put up a nice light show.
We then headed for Landsend,
bought and posted our postcards, ate our ice-cream, took the obligatory photographs
of the sign post and the Longstone Light and the flora of this last outcrop of
England before hitting the Americas.
That done, we headed for the Minack theatre, Linda convinced me that it would be better to take the second entrance, she had noticed this while driving to Landsend, alas this put on about 40 km and an hour’s drive, we arrived and silly me decided to try for the top car-park. And, that was where it happened, at a bend in the road there was enough space to turn the van, by using a residents parking area, Linda had dismounted and had directed me back and forwards, to and fro until I was pointing down instead of up to the stars, she was getting back into the passenger’s side, pushing off on her left leg to reach the step and the back of her leg went ping and she screamed. After a bit of manoeuvring in the bottom car park we decided it was a useless problem, so decided to head back to Coverack. She thought it would be better to go to the Falmouth hospital A&E to get her knee checked out, so after 2 hours and a pair of crutches later we headed back to the campsite.
Linda had booked at the lifeboat house in Coverack for her birthday dinner, this had to be un-booked due to the lateness but also to her inability to either ascend or descend the exceedingly steep road from the campsite. I therefore cooked what we had in the fridge.
So Linda’s Birthday meal 2013 was:
Melon with Serrano ham
Fried Duck eggs, M&S dry cured bacon, venison and wild boar sausages and chilli bratwurst.
Blue Vinney, farmhouse chedder, Rheda air dried ham, water biscuits.
With the meal we drank a cold sekt (German sparkling wine).
So even though we didn’t go out for dinner, what we had wasn’t at all bad. I think it is called making the best of a bad job. Even the Neighbours put up a nice light show.
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