It was late afternoon when we arrived in Mevagissey. We had already glimpsed the sea, and then descended into the village which quickly became a network of narrow lanes. We fortunately located our rental easily and parked in the dedicated parking space right outside. The Net Loft is just perfect, compact but well fitted out and cosy.
We unpacked and had a cuppa then decided to have a quick walk down to the harbour as the sun set. Great idea … it was almost impossible to take a bad photo and having explored a little, we felt properly settled in as we heated up some bean stew we’d brought with us, and made ourselves quite at home over a bottle of Merlot.
Mevagissey is a working fishing port, with a tradition of boat building and was once the centre of Cornwall’s pilchard fishery. It is centred round the harbour, surrounded by a maze of narrow lanes filled with gift shops and galleries. The name comes from Meva and Issey, old Cornish for the two 6th century Irish missionaries who came to Cornwall to convert the natives to Christianity.
We woke to a lovely sunny morning and wandered down to the harbour, taking yet more photos, then walked round towards the lighthouse.
We took a path which climbed up above the village …
… and got a great view across the bay to the town of St Austell and further round to the Daymark at Gribben Head, which is our destination tomorrow.
We continued down to the cove at Portmellon where The Shack served fab coffee and we found a bench in the sun to drink it, before returning inland through West Bodrugan Wood and back over Polkirt Hill back to Megavissey.
By this time, the tide had gone out, so we had to take more pics of the harbour! We had sandwiches in a cafe, with a side of chips for Chris, before browsing the shops in the afternoon and sitting in the sun with an ice cream.
Back at the Net Loft, we made a cuppa and I returned to my holiday reading. I’d already finished The Cove by LJ Ross, the same author who wrote Scyamore Gap last trip, which was similarly a little far fetched, but still a good holiday read. Now I got stuck into Snapped in Cornwall by Jane Bolitho … which I’d noticed on a shelf yesterday and downloaded on my kindle. It is the first of a series featuring Rose Trevelyan a painter and photographer based in Cornwall who has a knack for solving murders, and she’d solved the first one by bedtime!
Off Travelling Together 