Cornwall Full
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Kent?😂😂😂😂
Avoiding the weekend for travelling is sensible, W.
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Ha Ha. I’m taking my 8 year old granddaughter to Looe, or as she puts it, she’s going to the toilet for her holiday!
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That’s a good site for kiddies and for looking around east to mid Cornwall.
This play place seems very very popular judging by the heaving car park on wet days.
http://kidzworldcornwall.co.uk
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Thanks for the link tinwheeler, I'll bear it in mind. We're bound to get a couple of wet days.
brue, yes the pool was a factor in picking the site. Hope your right about the weather.
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I'm afraid you really will be in the thick of the crowds at Looe - but if you want to escape drive 7 or 8 miles west and find your way down the footpaths to the beaches at Lantic Bay or Lansallos. Free parking there if you have a National Trust card - but the car parks are small so go early in the day.
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Thanks eurotraveller, The granddaughter is looking forward to a few days on the beach. I am a NT member and i will be sure to get there early.
Just looked it up on google earth, looks perfect.
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We spent the first two weeks of July on a split holiday - first week in Godrevy, the second in Fowey. The weather was incredible and the county even better! The beaches were quiet and so too the roads, apart from weekends. We explored to our heart's content and had a wonderful time. I managed to leave my mobile phone on a secluded beach, returning three hours later to find some kind soul had placed it in a safe and prominent position!
We headed home on the weekend of the school holiday break up and there was a wave of traffic heading down to Cornwall which stretched from Exeter to Bristol - most of it either crawling or at a standstill.
If this is a regular occurrence for 6-8 weeks then count yourselves lucky. It has been a daily occurrence for the last 20 years for those commuting on the M6 & M62, not to mention the Nation's biggest car park - M25
Is Cornwall full? I would suggest it's not just Cornwall.
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I’m glad you enjoyed your holiday, JR.
You echo some of the points I made on page 3 in that a few weeks a year is a small price to pay in terms of congestion compared with some other places.
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I think that's accurate about the travel situation JR and when the first group of holiday makers start returning the M5 can be at a standstill both ways. Unfortunately some of us locals, particularly at weekends, in Somerset and Devon have to weave our way on and off the M5 or make long detours to get to out and about for every day needs. By early September things will improve dramatically. But you had a good holiday and I'm sure even the ones caught up in the main rush have had a good time too.
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Absolutely TW and you have my sympathies when the hordes descend upon you!
I'm sure yourself, Brue and many others spend many wasted hours dodging traffic during the holidays and it may be a small price to pay to be living where you do.
A real bonus, we found, was to get off the main roads and venture down the country lanes - not for the feint hearted - and I'll never understand why your bus companies provide a service which, in truth could be done in a transit van 12 seater, but instead they provide double-decker buses!! It must be the fantastic views they provide! (Or maybe they're easier to spot coming toward you down single track lanes?!) 😀
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We just hope that the vast majority will have returned home when we head down that way towards the end of September and into October.
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They will have, Nellie. Sept sees the older generation take to the roads but the rush will be over.
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The BBC news highlighted the problems and stresses on facilities caused by the popularity of places like Cornwall, I think the season has been extending with the older generation arriving in September. However the SW generally does have room for all of us, just avoid the tourist hotspots and you'll find somewhere to enjoy.
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Isn't there a German television series filmed in Cornwall that also brings a lot of German tourists to the county? With the dire state of Sterling it must be a cheap holiday for them!
David
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Ha,
You've been down into the village then peedee?!
JK
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Rosamund Pilcher stories are the ones that you are think of David. Here's a link to the report :- www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/oct/04/rosamunde-pilcher-german-tourists-cornwall
Hopefully they've not discovered the joy of staying on CLs though.
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We've just to hope they'll be using the CC's sites and not CLs!!
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We saw a German crew filming at Godrevy once. The traffic was stopped (NT land) and nothing could move until they’d finished filming the scene.🙄
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