28th and 29th May Bank Holiday - Padstow

Padstow

Another bank holiday weekend and we were off to Cornwall again. This time we headed for Padstow Touring Park. We arrived on Friday night and the site was quite empty and we had a view across the field to Padstow.

On Saturday we woke up to wind and rain so decided to go for a drive, we headed to St Agnes where we had found a camping accessory shop last time we were in the area.

However as we headed down the A30 we were wondering what to do for lunch, we were passing Kingsley village which we had driven past many times before but never had time to see what was there.

As it was raining and we did not have any plans we decided to turn round and take a look. We parked up and found ourselves in a huge food hall with lots of lovely savoury and sweet delights to buy. We then ventured upstairs to the café where we had a lovely cup of coffee and a snack of Ham, Bubble and Squeak and fried eggs, yum!. After our food, we had a wander around Ann’s Cottage and bought a couple of Weird Fish and Billabong bargains. Downstairs was an ice cream parlour but we did not succumb.

Three hours later we left with our arms full.

We continued on our way, arriving at the camping accessory shop as planned. We had a mooch around but did not find what we were looking for and left with a bottle of toilet blue! We drove back along the coast, stopping at Perranporth for a visit. Then headed back to Padstow passing Newquay where Run to the Sun was in full swing. We saw a few of the participants of Run to the Sun en route. They were identifiable as they had RTFS plastered across their vehicles.

We arrived back at the campsite but we had now lost our view as the campsite was almost full. We decided to have a quiet night so opened a bottle of wine and settled down to read with the radio in the background. However, it was not such a quiet night as the Eurovision Song Contest was on the radio.

30th May

We woke to sunshine and decided today was the day to walk down to Padstow. The campsite had a footpath across a couple of farmer's fields that took us to Tescos and then a walk down the hill into Padstow. A 20 minute walk in total.

Padstow was quite busy being a bank holiday weekend but it was pleasant wondering in and out of the shops and especially as a lot of the shops had sales on. We decided to stop for a coffee, found a café with seats outside and sat watching everyone going about their own business.

We decided we had to go to Rick Stein's to get the obligatory fish and chips.  We queued to order and pay for the fish and chips and then queued to pick up the fish and chips.  The queue was no longer than our own local fish and chip shop though and Billy even said he preferred the fish and chips from our local.