Wide mouthed frog!

Saturday 28th May 2016 - Bude.

It's been a bit of a funny day.  It started nice and sunny.  We cycled into Bude for lunchtime and as soon as we got to the shore it was like a curtain of mist had descended.  Even in Bude town it was quite bright and warm but as soon as we got to the beach and the coast it was so misty that we could hardly see the sea.  I told Janice it was a 'sea fret', she had never heard the term previously.

For our lunch we had what was probably our last Cornish Pasty from the Pengenna shop in Bude (same company as the Tintagel Pasty).  It was very nice but still lacked that full flavour of the Porthleven pasty.  I think it is now demoted to second in the pasty competition.  That still makes it a great pasty for substance and lots of succulent meat.

We set off on the coastal path walk despite the 'fret'.  We got to Widemouth Bay....

It led us to talk about Widemouth frogs and Janice remembered an advert for malteasers where the wide mouthed frog pretended to not to be a wide mouthed frog.  I recalled a Dave Allen joke of many years ago involving a wide mouthed frog.  Look it up on the Internet.  It was a classic, especially if you can remember Dave Allen telling it himself.

We arrived in the village of Widemouth Bay and had expected great things from the beach.....here it is in all its glory.....

The sea is out there somewhere, but that is the curtain of mist!

We went back to Bude and cycled back to the site where it was pleasant and sunny once more although the mist did creep up to us as the evening progressed.

Sunday 29th May 2016 - Bude.

Our last full day in Cornwall....and wall to wall sunshine.  

We didn't plan to do anything except have Sunday lunch at The Tree Inn at Stratton.  The carvery meal was super.  Three meats and all the trimmings.  My plate was so heavy with food I was having trouble loading more on and carrying it back to my table.  We sat outside in the sun too.  We spent the afternoon and evening back at the van relaxing and reading the Sunday papers.