Hello Everyone! Thanks for the birthday wishes! I overslept this morning but made it down to breakfast in time. As soon as I had settled in at my table, my hosts and all their family/staff came in to the dining room with a double-chocolate muffin, huge shooting sparkler and singing happy birthday to me! What a wonderful surprise! They also gave me the cutest card, signed by everyone. It's a scene of St. Ives so I will always remember spending my birthday he...

Good Evening Everyone! Hope everyone is doing well! I'm still having a wonderful time. Today I decided to do a little shopping in St. Ives. It was a really cloudy day but there were a lot of people out & about. I rode the bus which takes only a few minutes. Once there I just meandered my way down to the harbor, stopping in every shop that caught my interest. I saw lots of wonderful things. One shop had these large, enameled tile wall hangings that I r...

Good Evening Everyone, This was a pretty quiet day, but one filled with a lot more walking. I slept in a little later this morning and had a light breakfast of yogurt and a muffin with o.j. and coffee. Didn't really know what I wanted to do today. It was very overcast but neither warm nor cool and there was no breeze. After a bit of thought, I decided to take the bus over to Lelant to see if I could get into the church, then I'd walk down to the beach,...

Had a fantastic day, today! Crammed in a lot of sightseeing. In West Cornwall, there are several buses that will get you around to some places but there is at least one hop on-hop off service that has open-top, double-decker sightseeing buses that make a circuit around the western tip of Cornwall. We decided to take the bus to Land's End. Luckily, I was able to flag down the bus at a local stop a 1/2 block from my B&B. Jo, Duncan & the boys had already ...