Off to Looe to stay for a few nights. Looe used to be so quaint and charming. Sadly, it has largely been taken over by tourism, to its detriment. It was hard to recognize the place we knew all those years ago. Still, you can still find little glimpses of the past.
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| Mike eating soggy fish and chips! |
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| Firemen out for their nightly swim |
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| Home Sweet Home |
May 29, 2014 - The Eden Project
The Eden Project is the largest, indoor rainforest in the world. Inside the artificial biodomes are plants collected from all over the world. The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite pit (clay mineral) located near St. Austell, Cornwall. The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house thousand of plant species and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The domes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal, inflated, plastic cells, supported by steel frames. The first dome simulates a tropical environment, the second a Mediterranean environment. It was opened to the public in 2001.
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| The pit has been completely landscaped |
It was very crowded on the day we visited, and felt a bit like a theme park. Mike was right at home with the plants.
A thrush
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| John and Samantha from Australia |
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| Tina and Graeme from Victoria, Australia Graeme, a self-made man, on the younger generation "They need to get head down and bum up!" |
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| Carol and Dave, owners of the Schooner Point bed and breakfast, Looe, where we stayed. They spend their winter vacation on Gozo Island off Malta, where they speak English and drive on the lefthand side of the road. Of course! |
Fowey, Cornwall
Jamaica Inn, 18th century Inn, near Launceston, famous for smugglers and immortalized by Daphne du Maurier's book, Jamaica Inn.
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| Really! |
If you want atmosphere, you get it here!
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| "Oy loikes me grub," though not very good here. |
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