Grey, damp Cornwall - Thursday

The forecast was looking OK - overcast but with <10% chance of rain until evening.

We left in the drizzle to get me a new rain-proof jacket - in the euphoria of three consecutive days without rain I had managed to leave mine somewhere 🙁🙁. My theory was that if I bought a new one it wouldn't rain.  Hmm, that didn't work! It rained nearly all day 😡😡.

The tides were favourable so we headed for St Michaels Mount, which you can walk to at low tide via a causeway. Leanne decided the Mount itself was a bit too steep for her dodgy knee, but a walk over the causeway would be nice. And it was. As it wasn't peak season we could wander around the Harbour without paying. It drizzled a bit, but was basically a pleasant stroll (and Cornwall has sandy beaches⛱️⛱️, which are probably very nice when the sun shines).

From Marazion (the lovely village connected to St Michaels Mount) we drove through Penzance to the adjacent village of Newlyn, where my GGF died in 1935. It also has a pretty little village at its centre. 

We stopped for an enjoyable lunch there, at a quirky and popular little cafe.

After lunch we headed to Porthcurno, where my GGF worked in the late 1800's and early 1900's and my GF was born. Porthcurno was the major terminal for undersea telegraph cables from the around the world and my GGF was an operator there.

We visited the Museum of Global Communications, which sets out the history of international communications and its associated technology. Fairly interesting, but not mind blowing.

As the rain continued to fall we checked.out the local graveyards where my GGF is buried somewhere, but one was too old and the other was enormous so we gave up on finding his grave and headed for St Ives. 

"Come to St Ives!" they say. "It's beautiful!" they say. "It's a classic Cornwall coastal village!" they say. What they don't say is you have to pay to park, walk 500m along and 100m down in the rain to get to the harbour. And the walk back up. Not these little black ducks! We kept driving and headed home.

When we got there, our car spot was taken by one of the other tenants in our building who was moving out, so we drove around Newquay to check out the harbour and found a pub for a pre-dinner drink to while away the time (that's our excuse anyway).