Our first stop was at the Lidl store at Hayle. I seem to be doing rather a lot of advertising for various retailers! We like Aldi and Lidl and their seems to be more Lidls down here. The main difference between the two is that Lidl has its own fresh bakery in store. We have tried their scones before and were quite impressed so this time we bought four scones for £1, with the intention of making our own cream teas. The clotted cream was a decent pot for about £1.25 and a jar of jam at £1. Total cost of £3.25. The normal price of a cream tea, comprising of two scones and a skinny bit of clotted cream and jam, plus a cup of tea in a cafe is about £5-6. Need I say more, we have double the scones and enough cream and jam for about 10 scones.
I haven't really mentioned much about Cornish place names. There are lots of places starting with 'Tre' and 'Porth' and plenty of names that are just strange, like Grumbla, Nanquidno and Gweek! It probably comes from the Old Cornish language. Today we moved a short distance to St Agnes, further up the northern coastline. We are starting to travel north again and it feels like we are on our way home. This area has several villages nearby that start with 'Goon', there is Goonvrea, Goonhilly and Goonbell. If you know what it means I would appreciate the answer. I keep expecting to see someone looking like Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine, Peter Sellars or Spike Milligan walking around the place. The Goons, as they were called (for the benefit of younger readers) were one of the first comedy groups to talk absolute rubbish and get away with it. I'm also trying to remember if Michael Bentine is still alive because the other three are definitely dead now. Janice and I often play a little game to try and guess someone's age or whether they are actually alive.
The new CL is between St Agnes and Perranporth. I have never been to the former place but I remember the great beach at Perranporth. The site is nice and sheltered and as the sun was shining we sat outside and ate our lunch that was followed by a Cornish cream tea with a Lidl scone, cream and jammmmmmm!
There is also a little pond on the site with some little ducklings.
Our afternoon activity involved walking to the coast and following the coast path to St Agnes beach, onto St Agnes Beacon (the only hill in the area), into the village for a pint and back to the site. Here are some views of the walk....
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