In the summer of 2009, when Eric just had turned a year old, we took our car to the neighbouring county, Cornwall, surrounded by water both north and south. We stayed first at Padstow for a couple of days enjoying the fabulous food in Padstow, the centre of Rick Stein’s food empire but also with lovely sand beaches that Eric very much enjoyed.
We visited small harbours nearby and then we continued west for a stop at the Bedruthan Steps south of Padstow before continuing to Mousehole, a quaint harbour on the more protected south coast. And near Mousehole is Lamorna, where Lamorna Birch lived who painted the quarry that hangs prominently in our Great Hall at Knightstone.
Turning back we first stopped at St Michael’s Mount which is an island at high tide but connected to the English mainland via a causeway at low tide.
The weather was mostly very nice, but at St Michael’s Mount it was cold, windy and rainy, although it didn’t stop Eric from having an ice cream in his rain coat.
