Perranporth to Newquay

Weather today: Clear blue sky, cloudy occasionally, cold n. wind

Daily Miles Covered: 11.1

Total Miles Covered: 64.2

Things of Interest: Long deserted sandy beaches (beautiful)

Personal Comments: Usual early start from Perranporth, 9.00am. Progressed over the dunes, where a man with a dog warned us of adders, possibly, I wondered if they could multiply quickly in this cold wind! Lots of signs telling us it was MOD. land and KEEP OUT, ok. Holywell bay was deserted so a quick intake of banana, off inland to Crantock. This is one of those English villages that you would love to live in. I'm not saying they are posh, but some people have thatched garages! Newquay is soon in sight, and luckily the River Gannel is low because the tide is out, otherwise its a 2.5 mile trek around (yippee), and we cross easily via a wooden bridge.
Lookout Newquay we are here. Lots of shops as you know, but not many selling chicken balti pasties so...........After that we had a severe wind problem (no not that) we got blown into The Mermaid pub and had to have a pint of doom bar bitter to recover, mmmmmmmmm.
Andrew soon arrived and wanted to watch The Grand National, no telly in this pub, what do we do?, leave it to Andrew. Off we go, the first hotel we see is The Windward, he goes to the door, the lady says come in, in no time time at all , the telly is on and we are watching horses.
We tell her about our trip, then she says you can park on the car park free overnight, brilliant.
She tells us of her charity so we give a donation, then lo and behold, Sue, we are on first name terms now, says sack the van you can have free B&B that will be our contribution to your trip. How kind is that. I will sleep well tonight. Well done Sue and Paul