A recovery day in Wadebridge & Padstow - 2nd Dec ‘19

A strange day! We decided to take it easy today. The colds are taking it out of us with little energy and lots of coughing, groaning and wheezing!

After a bit of a lie in we abluted and headed off to Wadebridge. It’s a quant wee town about 6 miles from the site.

We found a really nice vegan cafe but were informed by the lady behind the counter that the chef was off sick so no hot food! Not a bad result though as we stumbled across an American Diner called Route 39. It was really nice and relatively inexpensive. The food intake gave us a bit more energy - well enough to have an enjoyable walk around the town.

Like all similar towns, it has lots of interesting small independent shops. I don’t know why all towns, of all sizes, don’t do that and leave the big national stores to slug it out at the huge out of town malls?

We called into Tesco’s on the way back to Brunnehilda to stock up, fuel up and buy a new toaster- for £11!!

I was then a complete wimp and cried off to bed for an hour. The power nap recharged my batteries. We headed into Padstow at about 4.45pm. It was inexplicably still light. Indeed it was a gorgeous light and air as we parked and wandered through the harbour. The Christmas lights were up and it looked very atmospheric.

It was incredibly quiet - we’ve been to Padstow so many times but never like this. The impending hoards though were hinted at by the large amounts of workman activity as they worked furiously to get the temporary structures ready for the forthcoming Food Fair.

We ate at a pub called The Shipwrights - nothing special but certainly adequate. We arrived back at Brunnehilda at about 7. Time for a cup of tea and another movie in bed. This one was The Death of Stalin and judging by the gentle snoring sounds from about half way through I don’t think the current Mrs Pitts was a fan!

It is such a shame, we were both really looking forward to this week. The site is perfect, the weather is splendid .. if only we were feeling 100%. Never mind, as they say ... tomorrow’s another day!

Oh, we have a leak in the toilet. As you might expect Kim’s original diagnosis was poor aiming by yours truly. I think we have established now that is not the cause but we are no nearer finding out what is! My best guess is condensation.