Devon & Cornwall - Day 2

It is 10pm on a Friday and this blog is the last thing I can do online tonight. I hope it is read and enjoyed. I am tired and happy; as relaxed as I get being paranoid and with OCD. It was deeply cold overnight and then all day but during that day soft sunshine slipped through the fingers of the icy hand gripping Cornwall. We intended to go to St. Ives but made it only as far as Newquay and were still perfectly happy. We ate breakfast at Piers Cafe on the A39 at Otterham Station. It was very enjoyable and of good quality ingredients. I was pleased to get a photograph at Newquay Airport before we continued into the town. It was distinctly off-season but there was still plenty to see and do. I have published photographs on Flickr and Facebook. I can't say I enjoyed my Cornish pasty lunch but perhaps that was because there was too little room on top of my breakfast. The Blue Reef Aquarium was excellent. Some of my enthusiasms and wonderment have come late to a cynical mind and today, for the first time, I was gripped by some of the things which live in the sea (not literally for those of you who might have hoped for more from my encounter with an octopus). The variety is endless and unfathomable. From Newquay we decided to head back towards Tintagel. We missed the signs to the castle but, viewing it from the Camelot Hotel, found it very disappointing as I had in fact been warned by my brother in law. Roadworks are very popular in Cornwall or at least prolific and it was a somewhat circuitous route back to Rosecare avoiding Boscastle.

We returned to Tintagel in the evening and as a family group for the improbably located 'Indian Ocean' restaurant. The food was tasty but unexceptional. Service was good but some dishes arrived at the table a little colder than they might have been.