In the morning, neither of us took a shower because they didn’t provide any towels and the shower room door didn’t have handles on it either, so we just didn’t want to bother with the potential hassle. They did have funny dog named Norman. As we were eating, he would push your hands off your lap with his nose and rest his head on your lap. Haha, it was great, and would also freeze on the ground waiting for you to scratch his belly. I called him the world’s biggest lap dog. 🙂
We then left to look at the flat I lived in when I was serving there. We walked around to the backside and Angela got her feet soaked from the wet grass. I felt terrible about that. I’m not sure the missionaries live there anymore, though. We then drove to the church, which was locked, unfortunately. It is a beautiful property. After that we drove to another high street we would go to and then headed toward the Clifton suspension bridge. It was a hassle to find parking, though. They had closed a lot of parking for some street works so it took a while to find a place to park that wasn’t residential permit parking. We walked across the bridge and took some pretty nice pictures since the weather was great.
We then headed on our way to Cornwall with some pretty good weather on our way down. (It seems that we have only had good weather on the days we were traveling 😛 .) When we arrived in Falmouth, we went to the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. The museum was interesting, albeit a bit a pricey and a LOT of reading. That said, some highlights included a room that went under the water and you could see through the water. Part of that was an observation tower where you could get a good view of Falmouth. Another highlight was a Viking exhibit with a bunch of artifacts from the era.
After that, we walked on the high street and took advantage of the cheap food prices at closing. Altogether, we got two sandwiches for 50p each, Cornish ice cream (full price, unfortunately), and a BLC (bacon, leek, cheese) pasty for 1.50. 🙂 It was tasty. After that, we headed to Pendennis Point. There we looked at a really cool dry dock and went the head of the Point and caught the sights there. It was wonderful as the weather of actually pleasant and there were beautiful white clouds in the bright blue sky.
We then headed to the Pandora Inn pub north of Falmouth. The ride was pretty cool downhill a narrow single-track road and the pub was adjacent the ocean. It was beautiful there and the weather was fantastic. We discovered that the common procedure for ordering food at English restaurants is that you go to the counter to give your order and they bring your food to your numbered table. No tipping. I got Cornish sausages with mash, and Ang got a hamburger. Both were good, but it was interesting how Ang’s burger didn’t really have too much flavor it, despite the bacon (ham) and other toppings. Nothing will top American burgers :). We were thinking about getting fish and chips (and onion rings), but we found out they were beer-battered so we passed on that.
We then headed on our way to the Eric and Elizabeth Bray’s home. The sunset of blinding (pretty much couldn’t see anything) but beautiful. When we got to the street they lived on, we couldn’t find their home at first, but when we did, I tried to pull past their narrow gate into their driveway. Brother Bray was spotting me but I still managed to get the left side of the car wedged against the wooden gatepost. I reversed and made it in at a better angle, but the damage was a streak of paint on the door. Brother Bray removed the paint for us the next day and thankfully we didn’t have to deal with anything. After that, we visited with the Brays and headed to bed.
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