Cornwall.. It sure ain't England..

Totnes - The Lizard - Cirencester

It was Tuesday morning, the sun was shining, our bags were packed. We were ready to head off. Leaving Manuel, our crazy beloved adopted Spanish brother was quite sad, but as travelling goes, we needed to move on.

It was sad to leave the lovely wise Olivia and Chris who's such a sweetheart too. Chris dropped us off at the train station to start our journey heading to Cornwall where apparently things are different there and the streets are much narrower. I was amazed when Chris said that, the streets in England are narrow already, how else narrow can it get???

After travelling for 4 hours, we finally got to Cornwall, sure enough the roads were a lot more narrower than other parts of England. As we hopped off the bus, a lady spoke to the bus driver asking for a schedule and the bus driver said "we don't have a schedule, it's Cornwall!" Hahaha.. That's funny!

We walked around the supermarket and spoke to the guy at the store and in the middle of the conversation, he said "well, it's Cornwall!" I love that! Secoond time in a day hearing that, just confirms how Cornish are relaxed people.

From left to right: The night before we left Totnes, celebrating Manuel's birthday with Rowan, Rafi, Manuel, Mats and me; Mats walking through the forest heading towards Porthallow Beach; A nice little garden at Porthallow Beach (random, just found it interesting really, with the colour coordination and stuff); Auuuuw, how cute, found a carved out heart shape on a pipe; The rest of the photos are Porthallow beach

We finally got picked up by our host Jonathan. His place is located in St Keverne, where he builit a BnB consisting of a few interesting buildings, such as the tree house and gypsy caravan. Beside his place is a massive Cattle farm. A nice place to stay but after been working there for a while and hearing from his own lips saying "I'm a control freak, I like things my way", Mats and I immediately felt uncomfortable helping out there. Jonathan is definitely not Cornish.

So, after staying there for a week, we headed off to Cirencester where Sue, our new host was expecting us to help out with her garden.  It was nice to experience a bit of Cornwall though, they are different to England, they speak differently and have a rather strong Celtic culture. Since we arrived at Sue's place, we've been working throughout Easter and it has been really fun and nice hanging out with her. Two days off tomorrow!! Yes!! Sleep in!!

From left to right: The tree house; The garden; The pond; The Hobit Hole; The Gypsy Caravban; Helston; Narrow road in Helston; Cheltenham Spa, waiting for our bus to Cirencester