The View from the front garden of the cottage we rented, I can see the sea!!
I just spent an idyllic week with my Boyfriend and four of our friends in a place called 'St Just' in West Penwith in Cornwall and it was lovely.
We rented a 3 bedroom cottage with two double rooms for me, Mercer and the our other two friends got to sleep in bunk beds...yey!
We did lot's walking including a 7mile long walk to a place called 'Sennen Cove' which had a stunning beach and the best crab sandwiches I have ever eaten but forgot to take a photo of as I'm a greedy girl who thinks about her stomach to much and so I forgot to take pictures of rather a lot of gorgeous food I ate like: Buttermilk scones with home-made strawberry jam and clotted cream, Fish and Chips with mushy peas whilst sitting on the side of a cliff with the most stunning views out to sea, freshly caught mackerel stuffed with samphire, butter and lemon before being baked on the BBQ, big fat Cornish pasties, crab and prawn salad with aloie and bread and Cornish butter and a beautiful risotto with prawns, clams, squid, chorizo and organic chicken. I adore Cornwall and would love to live there one day but for now I am happy to just go on holiday there and eat all there yummy food.
A nice jug of orange and raspberry Pimms
Thai Green Curry with local organic chicken
Prawns in Oyster Sauce that we bought off a local fisherman
My lovely home-made Sangria
The beach just a short walk from the cottage
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how lovely and totally special... clearly youve been lucky with the weather too!... I love that part of the UK and am determined to go down there this year... thanks for sharing it with us, it's made my day!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a gorgeous place! My mother ins in love with Cornwall and always wants to visit it when we visit the UK. The sun is surprisingly strong in these pictures! Also, your "Cornwall" eats sound delicious. Scone and cream/jam is just so English!
ReplyDeleteThe weather was stunning, we did have one day of rain but apart from that it was gorgeous. Dom you really should try to go down for a long weekend or something, it's so relaxing and laid back, I feel really good and have a lovely tan! Brittanny sometimes we are lucjy enough to get some amazing in the UK, it's not always raining!!! If you didn't live so far away I would send you some proprt 'Clotted Cream' I'm sure you would love it!x
ReplyDeleteThis has made me so nostalgic - and jealous. I stayed in a little cottage in St Just about 15 years ago and had a wonderful time. There used to be a pub somewhere near there with an Italian landlady who made fantastic plum bread. (Trust me to remember the food.) Happy days.
ReplyDeleteYour holiday sounds so idyllic - especially all the food you tried :) And such beautiful weather - so lucky!
ReplyDeleteOh Lucy the weather was stunning for a few days but the rest were rainy, but the cottage we stayed in was so gorgeous I didnt mind sitting in it whilst it rained!!!
ReplyDeleteOh wow Phil! I didn't see any italian ladies in any of the three pubs that St Just had, some grumpy landlords apart from The Star Inn, that was a gorgeous little pub.
ReplyDeleteI love Cornwall, not only because it was where I grew up but because it is where I feel most safe. Visa does not generally give a non-citizen any rights, including a right to enter a country or to remain there. I love coming home there is always something new and I have many memories of cornwall, some good, some bad, some in between but no matter what the memories I have are my fav part! I also cannot leave home without having Riverside Poutine!
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