Cornwall and New Leaf

Cornwall was very good, if rainier than I would have liked. The train journey was just too long and after some unwise drinking games, some enjoyable putting my head out of the window to take in the views as the train went by the sea and more alcohol than i was expecting us to bring on the train we turned up at Bodmin Parkway a little worse for wear. After an apparently very forgettable taxi ride we arrived and went down to the beach to drink some more. I woke up in the middle of the night lying on a sofa. I was supposed to be staying in the other building but didn't trust myself at that point to actually find it so finished the night on the sofa. The next day involved an exciting amount of table tennis, hoopla, arriba, carumba (essentially keepy uppy), darts, haddock and clotted cream pasties, karaoke, amazing apple pie ice cream, drinking in nice cornish pubs, fish and chips, the yes no game using a bell from deluxe pit (a fun card game if you have not played it), drinking games and good pub animals and a disappointing amount of cold pissing rain and having to change clothes with women. The next day was actually very nice so a few of us walked around the coast to Padstow. It is a lovely stretch of coast line with one amazing beach along it. After ambling and paddling our way around we tucked in to a couple more of Stein's fishy pasties and some more apple pie ice cream - truly great ice cream before heading home for a variety of sporting fun and a barbeque. I returned home on Sunday after an amazing pub lunch. The best roast potatoes I have ever had for lunch in a pub. Normally the potatoes and veg are a let down in a pub roast. A bit more pool and darts finished things off and only a 4 hour train journey home remained. That ended up being 1 hour 45 minutes longer than expected as we crawled from Reading to London. They didn't even apologise or explain the delay. It was a very enjoyable weekend though.