Cornwall

We spent the first week of August camping in Cornwall with the Fouries. Perranporth is a pretty town near Newquay, with a good swimming beach. Arriving on a Saturday, means hours in bumper to bumper traffic. From our campsite we can take the scooter or a taxi into town. On Sunday we spend the day on the beach, sheltering  behind our wind sheild. Coenraad and Coemy swim with wetsuits on. If the South Africans spending their winter holidays at the beach in Ballito could have seen us, they would just have had puzzled looks on their faces as they twirled their right index fingers slowly around their right ears a few times! We did have a few lekka braais!
The day we went to Newquay was sunny and the beach was very sheltered.
Newquay is actually the surfing capital of the UK! Sandy beaches and a few small waves!
Nick joined us for a few days.We did a rainy day trip to Lands End, Sennan Cove and St. Ives and another trip to The Eden Project, which despite the hefty entrance fee of 25GBP per person, we enjoyed.It is a rehabilitated old quarry; the two massive boidomes, one tropical and one Mediterranean, are filled with exotic plants.
We enjoyed Padstow and had lunch at Rick Stein's Cafe.
It was great spending time with friends but as Mylene said, it's best to visit UK destinations outside of summer, when you are expecting lousy weather anyway!