Nov 22 / Administrator

2021 Autumn

After a hectic September, October was a lot quieter! James, Hannah and the children stayed for three nights at the start of Half Term. We looked after Rosie and Ptolemy for a day and spent a good part of it at the Cotswold Wildlife Park. It wasn’t too crowded and we had a lovely time including a ride on the train through the park. We saw this magnificent lion as well as the Hippos which should adorn the front garden of any country house.

Lucy and James and their girls, Emma and Hannah, arrived the next day to stay overnight. The four children had a wonderful time together as did their parents!

In November, Annie and Gerry travelled with friends David and Anne Bowman to Looe for a week’s holiday. We attended the Remembrance Day service on 11 November and were impressed with the memorial, the surroundings and the number of people who attended. The second photo shown below was taken from high up in East Looe.

For the rest of the stay, the two couples tended to “do their own thing” but spent every evening at The Jolly Sailor in West Looe. We were made very welcome with a reserved table every night at the locals’ end of the Pub. We were looked after superbly and ate there every night bar one!

There were very few tourists around and so we were able to enjoy walking without having to constantly dodge people! We walked to Hannafore a couple of times and enjoyed the views of the sea and Looe Island – the sea was amazingly calm on most days as the picture shows.

We also had a lovely walk through Kilminorth Woods beside the West Looe River. We were surprised by the number of Little Egrets amongst the other sea birds in the estuary – there were at least eleven within 500 metres. Our return walk along a broad path higher up the side of the valley presented us with a magical view and then magical sounds as we walked through the carpet of leaves

We used our rail cards to travel to Liskeard on the Looe Branch line and had a pleasant, if not damp, walk around the town and visited the museum which was fascinating especially with a very large collection of toys from the 20th century. On another day we used our bus passes and caught the bus to Polperro. Polperro was very very quiet with almost no tourists. As a result we were able to meander around the narrow streets and not worry about other pedestrians.