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St Ives

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    December 27, 2019
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    St Ives

    December 28, 2019 in England ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

    St Ives is a beautiful little seaside village that is renown for fishing and the Tate gallery as well as surfing at Porthmour beach which was impressive the two days we were there.

    St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia, meaning "St Ia’s cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular seaside resort, notably achieving the title of Best UK Seaside Town from the British Travel Awards in both 2010 and 2011. St Ives was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1639. St Ives has become renowned for its number of artists. It was named best seaside town of 2007 by The Guardian newspaper. It should not be confused with St Ive, a village and civil parish in south-east Cornwall.
    The village is characterized by very small cobblestone laneways and beautiful little houses that are all squeezed together around the bay.

    The Sloop Inn is an inn in St Ives, Cornwall, England, located on the wharf. It is one of the oldest inns in Cornwall, the public house is dated to "circa 1312" although the present building was built in the 17th or 18th century. Made of granite rubble, with a slate roof, the Sloop Inn was the favourite haunt of Victorian artists including Louis Grier and many of his paintings hung there in earlier years.    Read more

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    St Ives (cont’d)

    December 28, 2019 in England ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    We spent most of our time walking around looking at shops and eating Cornish pasties which are a meal in themselves!
    We also had fish and chips as well as a cream tea which is the equivalent of a Devonshire tea in Australia.
    The stairwells and Pubs in St Ives are amazing and the pubs are real family affairs with dogs and children all welcome. We visited about five pubs and it was cool watching Dylan drink many pints of different ales and the occasional lager.    Read more

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    St Ives (cont’d)

    December 29, 2019 in England ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

    More of beautiful St Ives which incidentally has a tide change of approximately 9 metres which is really impressive to see.
    The tide also changes quite quickly and the water temperature was about 7 degrees celsius whilst we were visiting.Read more

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    St Ives (cont’d)

    December 29, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    This was the view from Porthsmour cafe which incidentally is run by an ex Aussie who has an understanding of how to make great coffee as well as offering an Australian style breakfast menu...featuring granola, hash browns, spinach, salmon, pancakes etc.
    Quite a number of surfers out in the conditions wearing thick wetsuits, gloves, booties and hoods as well.
    Cool walks all around here and would love to revisit in summer.    Read more

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    Tate Gallery

    December 29, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art museums, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

    The name "Tate" is used also as the operating name for the corporate body, which was established by the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 as "The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery".

    The gallery was founded in 1897, as the National Gallery of British Art. When its role was changed to include the national collection of modern art as well as the national collection of British art, in 1932, it was renamed the Tate Gallery after sugar magnate Henry Tate of Tate & Lyle, who had laid the foundations for the collection. The Tate Gallery was housed in the current building occupied by Tate Britain, which is situated in Millbank, London. In 2000, the Tate Gallery transformed itself into the current-day Tate, which consists of a network of four museums: Tate Britain, which displays the collection of British art from 1500 to the present day; Tate Modern, also in London, which houses the Tate's collection of British and international modern and contemporary art from 1900 to the present day; Tate Liverpool (founded in 1988), which has the same purpose as Tate Modern but on a smaller scale; and Tate St Ives in Cornwall (founded in 1993), which displays modern and contemporary art by artists who have connections with the area. All four museums share the Tate Collection. One of the Tate's most publicised art events is the awarding of the annual Turner Prize, which takes place at Tate Britain.    Read more

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    Hilltop Chapel

    December 29, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    This beautiful chapel which is situated on promontory at St Ives.

    At the top of The Island in St Ives, surrounded on three sides by the sea, stands the medieval chapel of St Nicholas, also known as the Island Chapel (though to be pedantic, The Island is not, in fact, an island at all, but a promontory).

    It isn't clear when the chapel was built. It is entirely possible that a timber chapel stood here as early as the 5th century when the first Irish missionaries arrived in this area of Cornwall. We do know that there was a stone chapel on this site in the early medieval period and the present building can be dated to the 14th century on stylistic grounds.

    St Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors and the chapel was a focal point of worship for local sailors.

    The chapel was always the responsibility of the town authorities. It is built of granite rubble under a slate roof with gable ends.    Read more

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    St Ives (cont’d)

    December 29, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    A couple of the highlights...

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    Eden Project

    December 30, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    The Eden Project is a popular visitor attraction in Cornwall, England, UK.
    Inside the two biomes are plants that are collected from many diverse climates and environments as they have focused on a rain forest biome and a Mediterranean biome which featured plants and vegetation from Western Australia.

    The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house thousands of plant species and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The biomes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal, inflated, plastic cells supported by steel frames. The attraction also has an outside botanical garden which is home to many plants and wildlife native to Cornwall and the UK in general; it also has many plants that provide an important and interesting backstory, for example, those with a prehistoric heritage.

    There are plans to build an Eden Project North in the seaside town of Morecambe, Lancashire, with a focus on the marine environment.    Read more

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    Eden Project (cont’d)

    December 30, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

    The project was conceived by Tim Smit and designed by architect Nicholas Grimshaw and engineering firm Anthony Hunt and Associates (now part of Sinclair Knight Merz). Davis Langdon carried out the project management, Sir Robert McAlpine and Alfred McAlpine did the construction, MERO designed and built the biomes, and Arup was the services engineer, economic consultant, environmental engineer and transportation engineer. Land Use Consultants led the masterplan and landscape design. The project took 2½ years to construct and opened to the public on 17 March 2001.Read more

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    Eden Project (cont’d)

    December 30, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

    The biomes provide diverse growing conditions, and many plants are on display.

    The Eden Project includes environmental education focusing on the interdependence of plants and people; plants are labelled with their medicinal uses. The massive amounts of water required to create the humid conditions of the Tropical Biome, and to serve the toilet facilities, are all sanitised rain water that would otherwise collect at the bottom of the quarry. The only mains water used is for hand washing and for cooking. The complex also uses Green Tariff Electricity – the energy comes from one of the many wind turbines in Cornwall, which were among the first in Europe.

    In December 2010 the Eden Project received permission to build a geothermal electricity plant which will generate approx 4MWe, enough to supply Eden and about 5000 households.
    The project will involve geothermal heating as well as geothermal electricity. Cornwall Council and the European Union came up with the greater part of £16.8m required to start the project. First a well will be sunk nearly 3 miles (4.5km) into the granite crust underneath Eden. Funding has been secured and drilling is set to begin in summer 2020. Eden co-founder, Sir Tim Smit said, “Since we began, Eden has had a dream that the world should be powered by renewable energy. The sun can provide massive solar power and the wind has been harnessed by humankind for thousands of years, but because both are intermittent and battery technology cannot yet store all we need there is a gap. We believe the answer lies beneath our feet in the heat underground that can be accessed by drilling technology that pumps water towards the centre of the Earth and brings it back up superheated to provide us with heat and electricity.”    Read more

  • Trip end
    December 30, 2019
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