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    • Day 5

      Saint Ives

      August 26, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Questa mattina partiamo alle 8,40 e torniamo in Cornovaglia. Facciamo un lungo tratto in autostrada ed arriviamo a Saint Ives, una cittadina sita in un bel golfo. Come al solito parcheggiamo la macchina in alto e scendiamo a piedi fino al porto.
      La città è più grande delle solite, ha dei bei negozietti e un porto su cui si affacciano parecchi bar e pub. Il tempo di un caffè ed un giretto e si riparte.
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    • Day 44

      St. Ives

      November 21, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌬 11 °C

      Today, we're starting in Penzance. We spent the night on the Sainsburys parking lot. Connie has found a charity shop nearby, so after a light breakfast, off we went. The Cornwall Hospice Care Penzance furniture shop is only a short walk away. The furniture shop is well sorted with everything that one could need and it doesn't take us too long to find quite a few items that take our fancy. I, as usual, am looking for any Rupert the Bear books, so I diligently search through the children's books section. I find at least two other story books, but not what I'm really looking for. So I asked the sales guy, and he said yes, they did have at least two books in store the other week, but he'd have to take a look and see if they were still there. So off he went. Unfortunately, by his return, he said they were no longer there. He then proceeded to tell me of another charity shop in St Ives, the Retro shop, that also could have the Rupert the Bear books as that is something that they would specialise in. So with this info and the several items we had purchased, we left Penzance and drove to St Ives, which is only a forty minute drive away. Upon arrival in St Ives, we take a walk along the beach and then through the small and narrow streets of the town. With its beautiful little houses and quaint little shops and narrow streets, we could well imagine how overrun this place must be in summer with all the tourists running around. In the Retro shop, I ask the gentleman there if he had any Rupert the Bear books, and he promptly produces two from the shelf. My heart does a big jump. But when he tells me their going for seventy-five pounds each, I quickly come back to reality. That's way out of my price range. So as we turn to paying for the four items that Connie has found, we come into conversation the gentleman and it turns out that, after we mention that we're from Germany, he had also spent three years there back in the 1980s with the British Army, in Münster. Before we make our way back to the camper, we stop off at Tarquin's Cornish Gin Shop, where an elegant tall blue bottle with the name Connie Glaze catches eyes. After a short testing of various other Gin samples, we settle for Connies Glaze and leave St Ives and drive on to our next destination, the town Bodmin.

      Heute starten wir in Penzance. Wir haben die Nacht auf dem Parkplatz von Sainsbury verbracht. Connie hat einen Wohltätigkeitsladen in der Nähe gefunden, also nach einem leichten Frühstück machen wir uns auf den Weg. Der Cornwall Hospice Care Penzance Möbelladen ist nur einen kurzen Spaziergang entfernt. Der Möbelladen ist gut sortiert mit allem, was man brauchen könnte, und es dauert nicht allzu lange, bis wir einige Artikel finden, die uns gefallen. Ich suche wie immer nach Rupert the Bear-Büchern und durchsuche sorgfältig den Kinderbuchbereich. Ich finde mindestens zwei andere Geschichtenbücher, die mir gefallen, aber nicht das, wonach ich wirklich suche. Also frage ich den Verkäufer, und er sagt ja, sie hatten letzte Woche mindestens zwei Bücher im Laden, aber er müsste nachsehen, ob sie noch da seien. Also ging er los. Leider sagte er bei seiner Rückkehr, dass sie nicht mehr da seien. Er erzählte mir dann von einem anderen Wohltätigkeitsladen in St Ives, dem Retro Shop, der auch die Rupert the Bear-Bücher im Sortiment haben könnte, da dies etwas ist, auf das sie sich spezialisiert haben. Mit diesen Informationen und den verschiedenen Artikeln, die wir gekauft hatten, verließen wir Penzance und fuhren nach St Ives, was nur vierzig Minuten entfernt ist. Bei unserer Ankunft in St Ives machen wir einen Spaziergang am Strand entlang und dann durch die kleinen und engen Gassen der Stadt. Mit seinen schönen kleinen Häusern, malerischen Geschäften und engen Straßen können wir uns gut vorstellen, wie überlaufen dieser Ort im Sommer mit all den herumlaufenden Touristen sein muss. Im Retro Shop frage ich den Herrn dort, ob er Rupert the Bear-Bücher hat, und er holt prompt zwei aus dem Regal. Mein Herz macht einen großen Sprung. Aber als er mir sagt, dass sie jeweils fünfundsiebzig Pfund kosten, komme ich schnell wieder auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurück. Das ist weit über meinem Budget. Also, als wir uns darauf vorbereiten, die vier von Connie gefundenen Artikel zu bezahlen, kommen wir ins Gespräch mit dem Herrn, und es stellt sich heraus, dass er, nachdem wir erwähnt haben, dass wir aus Deutschland sind, ebenfalls drei Jahre dort in den 1980er Jahren mit der britischen Armee in Münster verbracht hat. Bevor wir uns auf den Weg zurück zum Wohnmobil machen, halten wir bei Tarquin's Cornish Gin Shop an, wo uns eine elegante, hohe blaue Flasche mit dem Namen Connies Glaze ins Auge fällt. Nach einer kurzen Verkostung verschiedener anderer Gins entscheiden wir uns für Connies Glaze und verlassen St Ives, um zu unserem nächsten Ziel, der Stadt Bodmin, zu fahren.
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    • Day 3

      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.
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    • Day 3

      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.
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    • Day 3

      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.
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    • Day 3

      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

    • Day 2

      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.
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    • Day 2

      St. Ives erkunden

      May 1, 2023 in England ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

      In St. Ives angekommen flüchteten wir zuerst ins Thai Restaurant. Ausgehungert von der langen Zugsfahrt (natürlich hatten wir keinen Lunch dabei 🙈) genossen wir das Mittags- und Abendessen in einem.
      Übernachtung im Lifeboat Inn.
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    • Day 3

      Lifeboat Inn St. Ives

      May 2, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

      Ganze Nacht KEIN Auge zugedrückt. Hier war aber nicht das Lifeboat Inn schuld, sondern meine hochgradige Kieferhöhlentzündung. Dank dieser hatte ich weder durch die Nase, noch kaum durch den Rachen Luft. Hatte mich entschlossen mit dem Taxi in die Notaufnahme des Spitals Penzance. Alle Taxis durchtelefoniert, alle am schlafen. Spitalnotaufnahme arbeitet erst am Morgen 8:00.
      Somit verbrachte ich meine Horrornacht mehrheitlich im Badezimmer, um meine Freundin nicht aufzuwecken. Um 9:00 ging ich dann zum Doktor. Sonnenaufgang vom Hotelfenster aus.
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    • Day 65

      St. Ives und Tintagel

      May 10, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

      Einfach schön ☀️🌅 🐬

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