Europe 2023 11th August Day 8 - Zennor to Mevagissey

Up bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning as hitting the road to Mevagissey today for the next three nights. Was an absolute delight to stay at the Tinners Arms and heartily recommend it to anyone as a place to stay. We got away around nine with the intention of travelling towards the south coast and around. After driving over the hills again and down towards Penzance, skirting the outer edges of the city, our first stop was Praa Sands.

Praa Sands. This was a purely seaside beach town that in this weather just looked cold and miserable. One of the longest beaches we'd seen so far, but nothing to excite.

 We then headed onto Porthleven and wow 😲 what a beautiful spot. Another secluded harbour with a old life saving building that was now an art gallery ( seems to be the thing to do with disused buildings, turn it into an art gallery.) That said we spent a couple of hours wandering around this seaside town, with a coffee of course, just enjoying another lovely Cornish village.

After this we headed inland to Truro, one of the larger Cornish towns and just wandered taking in the sights, one of which was the cathedral which though looking ancient was only built in the 1890-1910 year period, but quite impressive all the same. It had replaced something previous from around the 1700's. We walked to a beautiful city gardens, nothing massive but beautiful all the same, enjoying a lemonade and an elderflower spritz beneath an impressive 1800's viaduct still in use by the railways today.

From Truro we then set off to our next accommodation at Mevagissey, another seaside town on the south coast. It didn't take to long to get there via the winding narrow roads and we arrived a little early just after 3pm. This was a guesthouse above the harbour and down a narrow dead end one way 'street', Cliff Street was the name and a very suitable descriptor for the location. Brilliant view and after booking in we trundled down the 35° incline to the harbour below.

Another beautiful harbour village, not packed like Padstow but still busy and vibrant, weather still grey and overcast with the odd burst of blue sky and sunshine; but we walked anyway, me taking photos as usual before choosing the Harbour Tavern for dinner which commenced at 6pm. We shared some tapas style salt and pepper squid with some fish, parmesan chips and a bit of greens in the form of beans and asparagus, downed with some local ale.

A casual stroll back up the cliff to our abode (calves screaming from the St Michael's Mount walk) and out into deck as the sun had made an appearance with a bottle of red purchased a couple of nights ago and a cold rose for Jane from the off licence below. A not too late a night, looking forward to hopefully better weather tomorrow.