pinkbirdflies

Took a flight from Gatwick London to Newquay in Cornwall where I picked up my little hire car and excitedly but nervously drove off to Polperro. Thank goodness for the GPS as trying to drive an unfamiliar car and flicking on the windscreen wipers instead of indicators as well as working out where to go and looking at daffodils blooming, pheasants running out in front of me, sheep with black faces and gorgeous cottages in rolling fields can be quite dangerous! After one wrong turn and an adventurous short cut through the narrowest of country lanes and a water crossing, I made it to the fishing village of Polperro on the Cornish east coast. The car is in the community carpark as there are no cars in the village. It is amazing with its harbour and the stream that runs into it, tiny cottages and narrow paths, crying seabirds and craggy cliffs. My cottage is called Pebbles and has a kitchen dining area on the ground floor, lounge room on the next and bedroom and bathroom on the top. The view is spectacular overlooking the tiny harbour and amazing rock formation forming one side of the harbour. Paul the Luggage Taxi man was very nice and picked me and my bags up on a quad runner. I looked quite hilarious whizzing through Polperro in my purple beret on the back of the quad!