Cheesewring Farm, Minnions, Bodmin Moor

We decided to go way this weekend but did not want to go far due to holiday traffic.  We had been lucky to have found a CL with a space and headed off down the road to The Minnions on Bodmin Moor, this did not take long as it was only 12 miles away from home.

It was a bit hairy on the narrow windy roads, expecially when we met 2 Wiseman Dairies articulated lorries.  When we arrived we were asked to park on the lower part of the site as there was not room on the higher part.  When we looked we could see that the site was sloping and some of the caravans were propped up to keep level.

The spot we were put on was fine, although it was on a slight slope, the owner pointed Billy to a pile of levelling blocks made out of railway sleepers to put under the wheels and we were able to go on sideways,

We put the kettle on and pulled the chairs out of the garage ready to relax in the early evening sun, but by the time the kettle had boiled the sun had gone in and the wind had got up, we found ourselves puting the chair under the van without using them.
We had our dinner and settled down to watch the Olympics opening cermony.  We had a great picture but then we would as we were just over the road from Caradon Hill and the TV mast.

We had a spot to ourselves and as we relaxed, rabbits or perhaps they were hares were running around outside.

Saturday

We woke and watched the start of olympic games whilst having our cereal.   It was hard to pull ourselves away from the rowing and swimming but in the end we headed off over the moors.

It started to rain but we didnt have to walk far to the nearest village of Minions and found the Cheesewring Hotel for shelter and a beverage or 2.  In fact we stayed a while, we perused the menus and thought we may go back for a meal in the evening.  However in the end, after drooling over the food beng delivered to the customers, we decided it would be easier to eat there and then.

Whilst we were there a family of women arrived, some were younger than others and were heading off for a walk and an older couple were staying in the pub, they turned out to be sisters.  One of the young women looked at us jokingly and said we had to look after them and I understood this to mean not to let them drink too much.  I was looking through the drinks menu and happened to say to Billy that a Tia Maria coffee sounded nice.  Later when the sisters were ordering their drinks Billy jokingly said "you should try the Tia maria coffee, and they took him up on this and ordered these.  Then, as we were leaving they were at the bar again, ordering more tia maria coffees.   We left wondering how long they were going to be there and what their daughters would say when they got back.

We were heading back to the site but it had stopped raining and we were so close to the Cheesewring we decided to climb to the top and see what the Cheesewring was.

Walking towards the Cheesewring

Cheesewring

Campsite is down there somewhere!

By the time we got back to the campsite we were tired so out came the chairs on went the kettle and by the time the kettle had boiled it was raining again!  (Déjà vous)
So it was back into the van to watch the olympics and the hares, as they were out again.