Hurrah, the sun has reached us at last and we are baking! We're just on our 4th night at Pensagillas campsite, just outside Mevagissey. We hit the jackpot with this lovely site, we are at the bottom of a field overlooking a beautiful pond and it's only £10 a night. We've had a couple of great barbecues with campfires, we are in the shade in the morning (crucial otherwise we wake at 6 with the sun) but we have sun all afternoon until it sets so it's perfect.

There is a bar on site, so we watched the womens football there on Tuesday night (great game, shame they didn't win) but there were 6 of us watching so we had a bit of banter with them.

On Wednesday we went to the Eden Project, and were very impressed - there are 2 biodomes, one with a Mediterranean feel and the second, larger one is Rainforest - it was incredible, albeit very humid as you'd expect. They have plenty of water refilling stations which was good news. You can climb up inside to almost the roof, on a viewing platform - bit freaky as you can see through the metal steps but really worth it. On one of the pictures I have uploaded you can see a dark shadow mid picture and that's the platform we climbed too, plus there's a picture of us right at the top - we look more confident than we were!

The next day we did a cliff hike into Mevagissey, I'll mention again just HOW hilly it is here, it's near vertical in some places and of course, we were appropriately attired in our hiking flip-flops! We really liked Mevagissey, it was less touristy than many of the fishing villages and we had a delicious fish and chip lunch.

Today we went to the Lost Gardens of Heligan, they were incredible. For those who don't know, it was a self sufficient 200 acre estate through the 18/1900's until ww1 when mos of the garden workers went to war and didn't come back. The gardens owner couldn't bear to stay and moved away and the whole estate was left to grow over until 1990 when a late heir started to rediscover them and they have now put them back to how they used to be, with some new bits too. The walled gardens were lovely, but the bit we really loved was the jungle walk, it was like being in Jurassic Park with huge ferns and lots of ponds, hopefully the pictures do it justice, despite you all having to turn your heads or computers half upside down! (Apparantly it's because I am uploading them on a laptop, so I guess you're getting used to neck ache, sorry!)

Tomorrow we move on to camp somewhere near Paignton. but for now, it's Friday and nearly wine o'clock and we have finally found cold white wine so time to crack that open!

xxx