Easter Trip - Day 11

We left Loynton Moss in the morning, and drove home, stopping a couple of times on the way.

Easter Trip - Day 10

We left the site and drove up to the Symonds Yat Rock car park. First we went to the viewpoint at the rock, with good views to the River Wye.

We then followed the Highmeadow Trail which was 11 miles. It was a lovely walk through the Forest of Dean. We lost the track for a while, making it a bit longer.

We had lunch in Staunton, by a hexagonal sheep pen.

We got a good view at Buck Stone.

We later passed the Suck Stone, one of the largest individual boulders in the country.

Back down at the River Wye we went across a foot bridge, then up to a cave.

The bluebells were lovely.

Back down the other side we caught a hand-pulled ferry. We had to wait a while, one of the other passengers swam across to see where the ferryman was!

After a steep climb back to the car park we bought an ice cream, then started the drive towards home.

We stopped again at Loynton Moss and had pasta and sauce for dinner.

Easter Trip - Day 9

We packed up and left Cornwall, stopping to shop at Sainsburys in Weston Super Mare. We drove on and parked at Tintern Abbey.

We went for a walk, first up river to Brockweir then up through the forest to Devil's Pulpit.

Back down we had a drink at the Anchor Inn since they refunded the parking charge :-) We then chose a camp site further up the river near Symonds Yat, the Elmsdale. It was a nice spot by a stream.

For dinner we had pork steak, fried potatoes and vegetables​.

Easter Trip - Day 8

We packed and tidied up the hostel, and drove to the Rough Tor car park just past Camelford.

We walked up Rough Tor and Brown Willy.

After the walk we had a drink at the Mason's Arms then said goodbye to the Bristol friends.

We then bought some provisions at the Co op and drove a short distance to Coxford Farm camp site near Crackington Haven.

We walked to the coastal path then down to the village and had a drink in the Coombe Barton Inn.

We then walked home and made our dinner, pizza.

Easter Trip - Day 7

Today's walk was south down the coast first. We walked past old quarries to Port William, where we were to have dinner later.

From there it was up a steep slope and on a further couple of miles.

Then we turned inland and walked to Delabole. We saw the quarry there, one of the deepest holes in Europe, and we had lunch there.

Then we headed back towards Tintagel, over fields then through a nature reserve.

At Tintagel some of us went for a drink at the king Arthur's pub.

We had arranged taxis to dinner as it was a few miles away, and that worked very well. Scott had rack of ribs and Shirley had a burger.

Easter Trip - Day 6

We all left about 10am and walked north on the coastal path. First we came to Tintagel Castle, which we didn't go in to but just walked past.

Later we walked up Rocky Valley where we had a lunch stop. The sun came out at times, though there was a chilly wind.

At about 3.30pm we got to Boscastle.

Some of us stayed in the Cobweb pub till the 6.15pm bus. Back in Tintagel we also went to the King Arthur's Arms pub for a drink, then walked back to the hostel.

Tamsin made dinner, vegetable tagine.

Easter Trip - Day 5

This morning we all left to head for Cornwall. The traffic wasn't as bad as it could have been for a Bank Holiday.

We stopped for coffee at Taunton Dean services and met Pete, Jenny and Barry.

We then all met at Henwood for a walk. It was quite chilly and not very sunny.

We walked towards the Cheesewrings, seeing some old mining buildings on the way.

We had lunch in an old quarry just below the Cheesewrings.

After the walk we drove to Minions for a drink in the Cheesewrings pub. Then we all went to Tintagel youth hostel.

Beth made dinner, vegetable biryani.

Easter Trip - Day 4

We packed up and left the site. We drove to a car park just along the road, and went for a walk along Wenlock Edge.

After this we decided to head to Bristol to avoid the traffic later. We stopped at Tesco for supplies, and arrived in Totterdown at about 4pm. We were staying at Pete and Jenny's house.

In the evening we went to Pauline and Stuart's for dinner, vegetable curry. Later we went to the Star and Dove for a drink.

Easter Trip - Day 3

We went to Blists Hill Victorian Town museum for opening time at 10am. This was very interesting, we saw all the exhibits like the bank, sweet shop, chemist, foundry, school etc. Many had guides dressed up in the style of the time.

They also had a number of houses and cottages in Victorian style.

We walked along the canal to the Hay Inclined Plane which took carriages up from and down to the River Severn.

Next was a pig talk!

We had a pint in the pub, the New Inn.

After this we drove into Telford for fuel, then on to Much Wenlock. We walked round the town first, it has a historic centre with old buildings.

We went for a pint in the George and Dragon then returned to the site and had dinner, tuna and tomato pasta.