A few days in Looe

I had never heard of Looe until I started planning this holiday and i'm so pleased I discovered it! Looe is made up of West and East Looe which are separated by the river and joined by the medieval bridge
(or a 40p ferry ride if the tide is up). The two towns used to be separate villages but are now considered one. We were lucky enough to have chosen a B&B on the East side and if you poked your head out the window and looked past the church...there was the sea. A perfect location and a wonderfully warm welcome. Even though Michael was previously rating the Old vicarage as his favourite...he loved this place both because of location and the fantastic hosts Debra and Allan. They have only owned the place 16 months and deserve to do well. After wondering through Looe for the morning and playing on the beach









We then went on a glorious boat ride to Polperro on an old lifeboat. Polperro has a harbour protected by a sea lock unlike Looe which is a tidal river protected by sea walls, rocks and the banjo pier. Why is it called a banjo pier??? The boatman Michael was telling us about how rough the seas can get- he says there is a spring tide coming this weekend and the water may come up into the town. Such extremes.








Then there was the disastrous dropping of the camera...it just slipped out of my hand! serious duh! At least we will be able to recover the photos off the stick at home...so the I pad found us a chain of photo stores and conveniently there was one in Hereford on the way to
Lille. So I'm now the proud owner of a Canon Power shot sX30IS. (for those that care). I had never updated any of my Sony photos onto I pad so all the photos hounded are Bruce's but you might see some of mine now. We also contributed to the British economy with Bruce's purchase of a new lens for his SLR as his autofocus has broken so he's been doing an incredible job manually. He'll get his other lens fixed back home so this new one does different things...that is about as much technically as I remember!