Mevagissey photographs

Couldn't manage to add these on the main entry!

Cornwall.

On our recent holiday, we stayed in a farm cottage in Dawlish, Devon. Our children joined us for part of the time, to celebrate our joint (!!) 60th birthdays. One one day we travelled as far as Cornwall. There we revisited the Eden Project. This occupies a china clay mining site, and is mainly made up of two very large domes. One is filled with plants from the humid tropics, and the other with plants that grow in Mediterranean climates. The project serves educational and conservation projects, and is well worth a visit if you are anywhere in Cornwall. It gets very busy in the summer.

While we in the area, we went down to Mevagissey, which must be one of the prettiest of the Cornish villages. Again it gets very crowded in the summer, and even in the autumn there were plenty of people there, but few parking places. With its ultra narrow streets, driving through the village is quite a challenge. With its brightly coloured houses and fishing boats its seems picture postcard perfect. We sat on the edge of the harbour and ate Cornish pasties (of course).

Castle Drogo

On our recent holiday in Devon, we visited another castle! This one was Castle Drogo, described as Britain's newest castle. It was built between 1910 and 1930. They clearly didn't have any late penalty building contracts in those days. Despite it being comparatively "modern", it was built in a style with traditional and modern aspects, but maybe there is no fully modern castle style? I wonder what a 21st century castle would look like, and who would build it anyway.