Cornwall Advice

[Cymru1]

The wife just booked a cottage in Cornwall for a week in August, anyone got any recommendations of what to see / where to go?

Not looking forward to the fuel bill for the S2 on this little trip! (fully loaded with the kid, luggage, etc!) 360 miles one way! (Oh I need a baby sitterl, so the mother-in-law is coming as well )

So based at Padstow, what's worth a visit?

[trevithick]

Go west young man !
Falmouth maritime museum, gwithian beach near Lelant, St michaels mount, cape cornwall near St Just in penwith, the castles at st mawes and falmouth (going across the King Harry ferry is a gem) mines in pool (between Redruth and Camborne), king edward mine behind Beacon (Camborne), pubs, St Ives but park at St Erth and get the train (one of the best train journeys in the world), north coast road from St Ives to Lands end (if you go to lands end park at Sennen and walk up), pubs, The cliffs from St agnes to Godrevey (hells mouth), trencrom on a clear day, take a river trip up the Fal from falmouth. Well that should keep you going for a bit.
Have a nice stay
T
ps if you want to see the first self propelled vehicle let me know.

[Christophski]

Nice beach just outside padstow treggels or go to Constantine bay which is lovelly has brill surf and you can walk round to boobies bay from there! Lol! If your there in the first week of august check out Newquay beach towards the end of the week for boardmasters surf champs with mini beach village of cheapstalls. With clothes n food n beers. I shall be there or in those areas mainly in that week. O and also check the camel trail from wadebridge, a nice walk or many of the cliff walks.

[Rusty]

Fudge from the Buttermilk shop in Padstow is thge best Try the Cornish tablet if you want a real hit of sugar! Port Issac is 'just' up the road, as is Polzeath, Watergate Bay is just donw the road (botrh top surfing places). The Rock ferry takes you walking distance from Daymer Bay (sp.) and the Sharp's brewery isn't too far either. The cycle track to Bodmin is worth a go (you can hire bikes at Padstow, including tandems!). There's the Camel Valley winery for the ladies too.

[Christophski]

Also head down to where the minack theatre is. Look down towards the beach from the cliff top and it looks as though you are in a tropical country with lovelly
gold sand and crystal waters ( on a sunny day anyway) it's my favourite view in this country shame there is no surf or able to get the car onto it as it would make an amazing s2 photo!

[Paulgo]

I can thoroughly recommed a holiday in Cornwall. Been going there for many years since I was a kid (and its a bit of a hike from Newcastle!) Padstow is a lovely place - just watch the gulls if you're having fish & chips along the harbour walls!! They are the size of eagles and completely fearless!

Cross over the Camel estuary (there's a little ferry) to Rock and you got some of the most amazing beaches in the country, especially when the tide's out. Then there's Tintagel up the coast or New Polzeath and Port Issac if you're a fan of Doc Martin... the list goes on and I so wish I was able to go back this summer!

Oh and the cornish pasties from the little bakery at Rock are the best in the world!

enjoy and let yourself go a bit Bodmin!

Paul

[s2_bo]

Nice beach just outside padstow treggels or go to Constantine bay which is lovelly has brill surf and you can walk round to boobies bay from there! Lol! If your there in the first week of august check out Newquay beach towards the end of the week for boardmasters surf champs with mini beach village of cheapstalls. With clothes n food n beers. I shall be there or in those areas mainly in that week. O and also check the camel trail from wadebridge, a nice walk or many of the cliff walks.

Spot on!

Conny bay and treyarnon bay are my favourite spots too. Have been goin there for the last 15 years.
Used to be better before they demolished the pub at treyarnon but its a great spot for surf.

[Cymru1]

Thanks for all the suggestions people.

Had a great week "down south".

Fantastic area, lovely places. Amazing how a "B" road can get so narrow!

Car performed fantastic, not one fault, took the whole family without a single hiccup.....very impressed with my 2yr old 90bhp TDI Focus hire car!!!.

Gutted I didn't take the Avant, however when I weighed everything up I had to be 100% I could get there and home without a single issue, no AA/RAC + the fuel savings, etc (Ford Avg 55 mpg over 1200miles!!) The bloody boring hire car paid for itself!!!

Got home and did some serious thinking, time to let go? time to change from a 20mpg 16yr old barge to something more up to date?....

It did cross my mind on more than one occassion, it's nice to have a heater that works properly, a demist that "demist's" quickly and a fuel cap that can stay shut for more than 20 miles - not to mention a car you can sit in a bloody traffic jam for 2hrs on the M5 without smoke pouring out the back end!


However 30 min back in the Audi and you realise it's a different kind of machine.

Tempremental - sometimes.
Annoying - can be.
Expensive to run - YES.
Individual - I'd say so
Good - Oh yes!

I will be keeping it for sometime yet; but Cornwall call's for a hire car!

[Christophski]

I take my s2 avant every time n it has only eve come home with the aa. Blooming clutch pin thing! O and it's great fun to drive the machine round down there too even if a little nerve racking in the lanes. Glad u enjoyed your trip but an s2 in cornwal really isn't a massive headache

[Paulgo]

Yes look what happens to your beloved S2 when you take her down to Cornwall!!



(That’s the car park at Port Issac (where Doc Martin is filmed)

I first took the S2 down to Cornwall with the kids the first summer I got her four years ago. After a teaching another south bound driver not to mess with an S2, the undertray suddenly decided - whilst I was happily giving it the beans - to part company with bumper lip. In this way I discovered it was not secured properly at the front! It acted like a huge shovel - well scarey at (cough) 70mph (cough). It had to be left, almost in two pieces, in a service area.

What I didn’t realise at the time (and didn’t discover until sometime after I finally got home) was that the undertray tarmac-surfing escape had managed to shear the wires to the thermal switch at the bottom of the rad. As a result I had no rad fan – not a good idea at all for what was a baking hot week with August traffic jams.

Not surprisingly the car overheated spectacularly several times in stop start traffic as I had no idea at that time about the dead rad fan. It was before I flushed all the cr*p out of the system so the whole engine bay was coated in tomato soup!! .Scared the heck out of my then 6 year old son – and me!

Worst of all was the journey home on the August bank holiday weekend and hitting the endless, crawling bottle neck of traffic trying to get out of Cornwall, which didn’t clear until we hit the motorway. It couldn’t have been worse, given the situation. I will always remember that part of the journey! Inching along for hours, killing the engine, eyes never leaving the temp gauge never picking up enough speed to let the engine get some air flow to cool itself!

Yes, not a holiday I will forget in hurry! Cornwall is absolutely great, but make sure your rad fan works!!

[Christophski]

Dude sorry to hear that. The pic made me laugh as I never put a roofrack on my coupe. Apparantly accordig to my car u can load it up with 3 ppl all the camping kit and two surf boards in the car and still c out of the front windows.!

Luckily now my avant let's me do the same with the edition of a gazebo too! Still nothing on the roof and it loves the cornwal trips at roughly 4-5 a year