Yes...it rains in England!

Luckily we had listened to the Weather forecast and got all our photos of the vicarage and church done the night before. so...on Friday ( I'm writing this a few days later) we left Morwentow and headed to Bude. It's really hard to have a good impression of a town in the rain so I think Bude deserves aa revisit. in retrospect there is a well regarded museum there which we should have explored...and that would have been dry!! never mind...we're kiwis and don't mind the rain (apparently....).We then headed for Boscastle which, then I think of it, I may have stopped at with Sarah and Steph Many years ago. I discovered that Thomas Hardy met and courted his wife here and am thinking it may be time to revisit my love of Hardy's novels. It was only raining lightly but thy the time we walked down this awesomely cute harbour to the sea...we were wet through. so a quick stop at the outdoor store solved that problem and we are now all the proud owners of geeky rain overtrousers. In this country everyone knows someone who has lived in or does live in NZ...this man's daughter works as a photographer for the Sunday Herald. the original plan was to go to Tintagel but it was just tok miserable so we did the food pilgrimage to Padstow...and instead of Rick Steins's fish and chips spent a bit more and went to his cafe. SO worth the money...what a lovely meal. I made an attempt at asking for a flat white which they were more than happy to try...but it was really a large machiato but it tasted awesome. then after drying off we headed for St Ives..where we checked in to our very average guest house..but I have said that before.