Stephen & Naomi: We're all going on a Summer Holiday!

It's summer Naomi's on her Summer Holiday (school teachers eh!), I have some days holiday to use... lead to one thing... ROAD TRIP! We decided we'd utilise our fine position within the southwest peninsular to expand upon our knowledge of the local beaches.

First stop ~~Mousehole~~ Par...
Well we had planned on going to Mousehole first (this being our first B&B stop), however we successfully managed to get our dates wrong booo... however this has mean we've an extended holiday so yey! With a couple swift phone calls and a look at google maps we managed to settle for a alternative stop for our first day... this being Par... Par isn't the most desirable place to stop at in relation to other places in Cornwall however it's not exactly the worst place we had a nice little picnic on the beach:

Then had an ice-cream:

And I we proceded to get successfully burnt by the sun... I feel quite ashamed of myself especially seeing the exact thing happened on the first day of our honeymoon! Our B&B (Emms Cottage) was a very quaint cornish house which had been converted to a B&B as the owners kids had moved out. It did seem a little odd sleeping in someone else's house (as most B&B's do) but this was quickly out shadowed by the AMAZING Cooked breakfast and Coffee mmm!

Next stop PerranPorth
The was the first of our Planned stopped, we chose this place to get our Surf on, however as we drove through the tipping rain... the likely hood of either of us dipping our toes in the water was getting rather slim. However where there's a beach there's fun regardless of the weather! We checked into our B&B (St George's Country House) which was a short walk from the beach... here are some of the views from the B&B to the Beach:

Our first task once at the beach was to locate somewhere to purchase a Pasty, we'd gained local knowledge that a certain Butchers (Chapmans) held the towns title of the best Pasty... will it be better than Oggy's or even my mums...

Quite amusingly I'm sure my dad has a large array of similar images (with himself and my mum replacing me and Nay obviously)

The Pasty's got awareded best Cornish pasty of 2000.... wasn't 100% convinced myself, if Oggy's was an 8, and my mum's being perfection at 10 I'd rate these at a good effort 7...

Next we read our books, since Par I've been hooked on reading this particularly entertaining read: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night about an Autistic person's detective work about finding out who killed the dog... the insight into the authors mind is rather compelling as such I managed to read the whole book within 3 days... which for me (at a reading age of 12) is rather good! After a hour or so of reading Naomi's short attention span kicked in and I was forced to fly our kite... did you know that the beach at Perranporth has a By-Law of a no-fly zone of kites outside of a designated zone... I didn't either until a life guard told me off! We rounded of our day out at the beach by having a classic Cornish afternoon snack of Devonshire Cream Tee's (coffee) in The Tin Fin... which is where we returned for our actual tea!

The B&B we stayed in was more of a Hotel so no oddness of feeling like we were in someone else's house! However the Bed sheets were still thick winter sheets which combined with the extra heat our Sun ~~Burns~~ Tan's were giving off we didn't have the most comfortable of sleeps.

Our final Stop of this Mini Tour was Padstow
Well I say Padstow the B&B (The Harlyn Inn) was actually situated just off Harlyn Beach (I think that's the name). We checked in then went down to the beach... which was rather windy and cold:

Quality self portrait there!

So this stay on the beach was short lived and off to Padstow down we went in search of Food! Which seemed like everyone else had the same idea as the place was rammed! However we managed to find a pasty shop (The Chough Bakery) which held the best Cornish pasty of 2008... who gives out these awards? If we go back to my original rating system I'd give these a measly 5, no bad points and the crib was in the correct place and they didn't do anything silly but just lacked any flare... if I was to liken these pasty's to a car it would be a Ford Mondeo, Naomi however must have forgotten what a good pasty tastes like and gave it an 8! That's on Par with Oggies... MADNESS!

We decided to combat the strong winds on Harlyn beach by purchasing our First Windbreak! This was swiftly set up back at Harlyn beach and book reading commenced...

Look how happy Naomi is with the windbreak!

However the reading was short lived partly down to me finishing my book... chicka chicka yeah! and Partly down to Naomi's short attention span! So a walk of the amazing beach was in order:

At the end of the Beach we discovered some cool rock pools as well we saw a water snail thing:

And an sea anemone:

The next day started rainy but soon turned sunny, so we went for another walk of the beach... it really is a nice beach! We hid in a cave whilst it rained: