St Mawes to Falmouth Ferry

During our holidays in St Austell we decided to take a trip on a ferry. 

We drove to a little village called St Mawes and caught the ferry from there across to Falmouth.

The boat hoomans were nice boys (one of them called me "pooch!"), we sat on the bottom bit of the boat right at the front. 

You have to get tickets before you get on board (from the little shed) and access is down concrete steps so not suitable for those who cant do steps or who have wheelchairs and pushchairs (unless you can carry them - some hoomans were carrying their pushchairs!) 

Dogs can sit anywhere on the boats and their are 3 different boats that do the trip. Duchess of Cornwall, May Queen and Queen of Falmouth. (we got the Duchess to Falmouth and the May Queen back to St Mawes). 

It costs £9 for a return adult hooman ticket, £4.30 for a hooman puppy and dogs travel free :) 

Join me for a ride ...

http://www.falriver.co.uk/

Ship Inn - Par PL24 2AR

We visited the Ship Inn at Par twice during our holiday in St Austell (actually 2 days in a row!) for dinner and drinks.

The 1st visit was on Thursday evening around 7pm, we sat in the garden and the hoomans ordered their dinner. Hooman boy had the "steamer" what is a chilli burger covered in spicy hot sauce and jalapeno peppers and cheese and hooman girl had the vegtabalist stuffed mushroom burger (it's a mushroom wiff olives and onions and cheese and sunblushed tomatoes in a burger bun).

Hooman boy went in side to order the dinner and then we waited whilst enjoying the garden - There was lots of dogs coming and going!

The Garden

Me in  the garden

The food arrived quite quickly and we got stuck in. 

The food was scrummy and both mine hoomans ate everything on their plates (I didn't even get anything)
They both really liked that the salad had balsamic vinegar on and the food was a good size and hot and tasted good.

The garden is nice, a good size and has undercover bits if you dont want to get wet in the rain or want to shelter from the hot sun. It also has a climbing "shoe" and slide for the hooman puppies.

So we had a nice evening at the ship inn and decided to go back on Friday night on way back from a day out.

We sat under the covered area coz it was raining tonight and we looked at the menu to see what to eat. It was still quite earlies so we had wait until half 5 when they start doing food before we could order.
When it was time to order hooman boy choosed the ship inn pie (beef and ale) and hooman girl being the hooman she is choosed the mushroom burger again. We orlso ordered garlic bread and cheesy garlic bread too.

The hooman from the pub came out and said we would have to wait for the pie coz them still being cooked from raw in the oven. At 6pm dinner was served!

Hooman boy thought his was soopa (and this time I got to try some of the pie meat and garlic bread) but hooman girl found they had done her mushroom different (she doesn't like different!) and thought it had tasted better on Thursday evening. She said the different was that on Thursday all the stuffing bits were big and on top the mushroom and the mushroom was quite soft but on Friday the cooky hooman had chopped all the stuffings up real small and put it IN the mushroom and also the mushroom was harder/chewy so when her bit it ... it all fell out!
Also the salad was a little .... AWOL all her got was some plain green leaves, no other salad and no dressing :(
But still her ate most of it up! but would of preferred a Thursday burger. Her does like that they do a decent vegetablist meal though, instead of just a soggy, greesy frozen vegetable burger you see in most pubs.

The Ship Inn Par

Polmear Par Cornwall PL24 2AR 01726 812 540

Sun Valley Holiday Park - St Austell PL26 6DJ

Sun Valley Holiday Park

Pentewan Road

St. Austell

Nr Mevagissey

Cornwall 

PL26 6DJ

We decided we wanted to hexplore some of Cornwall this year and so we set about booking a holiday park where I would be welcomed and we could go out on lots and lots of day trips to do hexploring. 

We looked at the Hoseasons website and found a site in St Austell called "Sun Valley"  (it's not actually owned by Hoseasons it's a privately owned site) and decided to book it up for a weeks holibobs! 

We booked and paid through the Hoseasons website and received a confirmation email the next day. 

The day of our holiday finally arrived and we headed off to St Austell. We stopped en route at Wheal Martyn Museum and then made our way to sun valley. Check in was at 4pm and on arrival I sent hooman girl in to the reception to collect the keys and find out where the caravan is. The hooman on reception showed hooman girl a map and told her where to go and what times the shop, reception, club, swimming pool, etc all opened and closed. 

Sun Valley have static caravans and apartments on site or you can bring your own caravan or tent also. 

On site they have a camp shop, arcade, bar, soft play, park, dog exercise area, wabbits (pets and wild ones), goats, swimming pool, launderette, telephones, table tennis and a take away (but dogs aren't allowed in any of these - except the dog walk area obviously!)

Accommodation

NO I absolutely am NOT on the bed! 

we booked the sun valley standard 6 berth caravan - Though I am certain that is not what we stayed in coz it duznt got enough beds and only had 4 plates in the cupboard. As it turned out it wasn't a problem coz hooman grandad who was suppose be coming is in hospital and so was just me and my 2 hoomans so we only needed the 2 bedrooms that we had! 

The caravan is quite nice, it has a nice spacious lounge/living area and then you go through a door to the bedrooms and bathrooms. 

There was 2 bedrooms, a double and a twin and a bathroom with a shower and sink and separate room with the toilet and paw basin. The bedrooms are quite small but that's okay if you just using them to sleep in. They have plugs, heater, storage, etc in them which was good so I could plug in my laptop and store all my bandannas away. 

The showers were okay, but the water pressure wasn't very high (but it was fine), there isn't a shelf in the shower though which hooman boy was bothered by and had to buy shower gel with a hanger so he could shower without having to hold soap and bottles the whole time. 
There was a nice amount storage in the shower room and towel heaters (nice touch!), the toilet room is very small though so if your hoomans are a bit on the large side they should be careful when turning around in there that they dont get stuck or burn their bottoms on the heater BOL 

The cooky thing is gas and makes a scary noise when you turn it on and the kettle is one those you put on the cooker to warm up like the old hoomans use. 

There's 2 doors one at either end the caravan (Though one of our doors doesn't open!) so you can come in/go out from both ends! 
Access is via wooden steps - I was a bit scared at first but then I realised I can do them easy peesy! 

There is a wooden picnic bench outside every caravan which is a soopa touch and meant we could have our take away outside in the sun (on the one sunny evening we had). 

Activities 

On site there's a smallish arcade, a soft play, a play park and a swimming pool. 

We didn't use the play park (no hooman puppies) but it looked quite good with nice modern equipment , the soft play looked soopa lots of fun and my hooman girl wanted to jump in and have a go. The arcade has some fun machines to play on too. 

The swimming pool is indoors and heated #bonus theres a large pool that gets 1.5 metres deep and a smaller toddler/splash pool too. Sun loungers around the pools and on the outside deck area. Separate male and female changing rooms with showers and toilets.
Sun Valley have a no lone swimming rule as the pool isn't lifeguarded and they wouldn't want you to drown or anything, and you aren't allowed take any inflatables in (unless they are to help you swim like arm bands). 

You can see the pool from the bar/club which is a bit odd but guess older hoomans can get a drink whilst the hooman puppies swim (as long dem old enuff to swim alone ofcourse) 

My hoomans went swimming one afternoon/evening and was the only ones using the pool so that was nice fur dems *nods* 

The pool is open 9.30am - 9pm (except it closed for a bit around lunch time for water treatment) 

Facilities

There's a launderette on site. Washing machines are £2 a wash, tumble driers are 20p a go (lasts maybe 2 mins). There's an iron you can use too which is free to use and a hair drier too (also free). There a change machine in there too so dont worry if you dont got change when you need use it. 

The site shop sales basic necessities like bread, milk, squash, snacks, etc. The prices aren't bad for a camp shop but most the products are from lidl's by the looks of them. 

Other information

Kitty is fwend not food...

There is wild wabbits running all over especially in the dog walking area so if you are a non small furry friendly dog then your hoomans should make shur they hold you tight or muzzle you or something, there is also 2 cats (dont know if they belong to the site or just local but they hang around the caravans alot).

The campsite isn't soopa well signposted. We drove past the entrance a few times coz we missed the turning when coming back from days out. There is a brown tourist sigh opposite but the hedge is grown over it and the actual camp signs are small and not very bright so not easily seen. 

The phone and sat nav signal in the area isn't good so make sure you know where you going coz the sat nav may not work. 

Wi-fi onsite can be purchased for £20 for the week (there was also an hr or day option as well) the signal isn't greyt (one bar most time) but it's better than nothing. 

Dog exercise area is a small paddock. Small fence around it and the gate doesn't secure so not safe for off lead exercise (unless you very good ofcourse) and as I said lots of wabbits running around. There is a bin provided so you can clear up after yourself (or get the hoomans to do it). 

Good area, coast path opposite, close to other towns and the A road so you can easily go out for day trips, lots of pubs, cafes, take-aways near by, garage at end of pentewan road (towards st austell not mevagissey) and supermarkets near by too (Tesco and Asda), Mcdonalds, KFC, Dominos pizza. 

Summer Holiday - Day 3 Tintagel Castle

On day 3 of our summer holiday to Cornwall we drove all the way to Tintagel to visit the castle  what is "apparently" the place where king Arfur lived and his magician Merlin liffed in the cave at the bottom the cliff (I not shur why when Arfur had a hooge castle right there).

We had walk down a really steep slope to get to the castle estate bit and then up billions of steps (apparently there's over 100 but I not shur how many more than 100 there are) to get to the castle.









The castle isn't really there any more, it sorta fell down a long time ago (or the land moved and its under the earth I dont know its not there any way!)  but its a nice place to walk around and look at the bits that are still there and the views are soopa too.

There's a beach at the bottom but its quite hard to get to coz its a big step down and over rocks what is something I couldn't manage so I didn't get to go on the beach here, juz look at it!

After all that climbing I was hexorstid (so was the hoomans) so we took advantage of the land rover service and got a ride back up the slope at the end! It cost £2 per hooman and 50p for mahself to haff a ride up the hill which was okay since it meant we didn't haff to walk any more.

In the landy rover back up the hill

I needed some help to get in the land rover (hooman girl had to lift me in - I hate being picked up so I did not enjoy this one bit!) but it was a nice ride and the driver was a nice hooman, he has a weimi a bit like my fwend Tessamaraner cept bigger wiff smorler luggs *nods*

Once we was up top I jumped out the land rover and we went over to the pasty shop opposite (Pengenna) they make soopa pasties what we tried last time we was in Tintagel so we bought some to take back to the caravan wiff us and then we drove to Trebarwith Strand for lunch at the Port William .









After lunch we went to Trebarwith Surf Shop - I was allowed inside the shop what wuz soopa good news and the lady what werks there gived me soopa fusses and ear scritches. Mine hoomans bought some t-shirts wiff "trebarwith strand surf shop Cornwall" on dems and we got ice lollies too.

Then we went down on to the beach and I did some zoomies and we orlmost got cut off by the tide so got orl wet when we walked back to the wheelies!

Soopa day. Soopa hexorstid now. 

Park Day 2.0 Follow-Up

So if you are a regular reader of mine bloggy (which I know you all are!) then you would of seen the park day bingo that a bunch of us was playing recently! 

Here's a reminder for those of you who missed it, as you can see I got a few BINGO's in mine which was soopa and I entered my linky on the relevent page to be considered to win one of the pawsome prizes being offered by the games sponsors, well today I had a message from Finn telling me to look out for this post about park day 2 on his blog, so I hopped on over to Finn's Blog and read his latest post (here it is so you can read it too) and in it Finn announced that I (Cat Greyhound of Camping and Exploring with Dogs) was the winner of  a KONG gift pack which duz sound soopa nommy! 

Thanks Finn and Gizmo for setting up the game, KONG (and the other sponsors) for donating prizes and Misaki who told me about the game coz without you I wouldn't of known any thing about it! 

Play Date wiff Casey Lurcha - Withdean Park Brighton

My good fwends Casey (he a lurcha) and Pete (him a hooman) took me and my hooman girl fur a nice loooong walkies around (and around and around) Withdean park in Brighton whilst we were away camping recently.

It was a luffly sunny day and me and Casey (and the hoomans) had a soopa time.

Here's a video I made of the day :)

The Lamb Inn - Witterings

We had stopped for dinner at the lamb inn last year when we were in the area for the GBGW and the food was quite nice then so I suggested we get lunch here where we arrived to camp in the area on Tuesday.

I think they have new owners now so it's a bit different , they have re-done their garden and have some nice new seating on either patio or grass.


The lamb tell me they are dog friendly inside and out (think there's a section of the pub that isn't dog friendly but that okay!)

Hooman girl went inside to order noms and we chose to sit in the garden coz the rain had stopped (though it did start again soon). We ordered the fish and chips and sat down in the garden to wait for it.












The food was ready in a good amount of time, we didnt have to wait soopa long time for it.
I thought this was an interesting looking fish and chips but .... did they run out of plates or something? BOL

I helped hooman girl eat it and it was very tasty noms indeedy (her wouldnt try the tartar sauce her such a wuss)

The lamb is a nice pub and would be good if it was a nice sunny afternoon or warm evening to sit out in the garden and whilst the hoomans chat.

The food is reasonably priced not cheap but also not too expensive really especially for the area (Things seem to cost more here than in Dawlish)

- HIGH PAW THE LAMB INN - 

N.B - tuesday evenings are locals night so dont go there on a tuesday evening unless you are a local