Wednesday 20th October

During the night we had a terrific thunderstorm. It woke me up about 4am, and I am usually a very heavy sleep! You can see from the weather reports how much lightening we had and the torrential rain that accompanied it.

 

However, when I got up later in the morning, there was a beautiful blue sky and the rising sun was making the clouds glow a very subtle orange.

Today, we stayed local to my parents' house. We drove down and parked in the Haven car park. We went for a walk up one of the valleys and then over the headland and cliffs back to the start. Pretty similar in fact to the walk the previous day. This time the weather was much better, occasional sunshine and warmer. However, the wind was still noticably strong. At least it was behind us on the way back.

For lunch, my parents treated me to eating out at Boscastle farm shop. This was a coverted farm building, which had recently been renovated. It was very nice and I had a huge slice of salmon quiche for my lunch!

I also managed to get some 'frangipan falvour' sponge to take home with me.

In the afternoon, we went over to see a new community shop which had opened in the village. A year or so ago the local post office had closed and since then the village had been without a shop. There was a nice selection of small goods and hopefully I'll be back at some point to shop there.