2021 Travel Plans

very true, the colour also comes from the reflection from the sky and as you know the Med has some spectacularly blue skies, not like ours and if your day is anything like ours you will have not blue sky today.

But also, i can remember my first swim in the Mediteranean in 1965, it was known then as the polluted sea primarily because of the amount of rubbish ships used to throw overboard on passage to the suez canal and the lack of sewage plants in most of the area surrounding the Med, Egypt is still the biggest polluter, however, in 1965 Dolphins in particular were in abundance and used to follow the ships for days.

But for all those planning to go traveling, in Spain, my daughter had a picnic on the beach yesterday after school, Torrevieja is scheduled for the mid 20's and wall to wall sunshine, they are also forecast for a particularly hot summer 35 - 40+ degs, too hot for me in the white box.  

Some of the most stunning azure waters I’ve seen are in Sardinia, but visit after a good storm and there’s all sorts of stuff washing around! Ditto Italian lakes. I’m not sure many Italians truly get rubbish bins.

Thanks Bill. Been a while since we drove that way. We used to spend days on Roseland exploring, recall Vault Beach was nice. We used to walk down and find ourselves a nice little spot under St Mawes Castle as well, interesting watching all water traffic. They were filming Hornblower with Grand Turk one time we were down there, quite surreal, as it’s home port was Whitby in the Winter😁

On the positive side, we’re buying local fish straight off the boat as the market has collapsed. Surprisingly it’s good business for many of the local boats and removes the nonsense of fish being landed locally driven 45m to Plymouth to the trawler agent and then back to local restaurants! 

Roseland is a (largely) hidden gem, bypassed by the crowds apart from those in the know and well healed boaties en route to St Mawes. The church and creek at St Just in Roseland has to be one of the nicest places you’ll find anywhere. We visited St Anthony Head between Xmas and NY and saw a pod of about 30 dolphins just off the lighthouse - never seen such a big pod by the shore in Cornwall. Porth, Pendower and Carne are also great unspoilt beaches. CMC club site there is ideally located.

Yes, that is a plus but it doesn't fully compensate for the orders lost from restaurants and other businesses. It helps, though.👍🏻

We fully explored. Got Bob Acton’s walking guides, so we tramped all over. St Anthony Head was often a starting point, but we often got waylaid off the track to go for a swim on some of those beaches. I recall Place, think it had its own little ferry? St Just Church is worth a visit just for the fabulous churchyard plantings.

We used to do the Polruan side walks as well. I think down and up to Lantic Beach, might be a hard one nowadays though, it was a knee shattering lung buster in our mid 20’s😱 Fabulous swimming spot though, and the other coves along there. 

Looks great David.

Whereabouts is that as it looks like a place we could well visit in the future by car or plane. On our only visit to Croatia we unfortunately didn't realise that the area around Pula/Medulin has cloudy seas due to the lack of tidal flushing of the bays. 

Croatia definitely warrants another visit to a different area.

"The church and creek at St Just in Roseland has to be one of the nicest places you’ll find anywhere."

One of our favourites days out - get the King Harry Ferry, drive and park at the church, usually time to stop for a coffee on the churchyard seats overlooking the creek (organist was practising when we did this last time), then walk along the field paths to St Mawes. Pasty or fish and chips for lunch, maybe a pint of Tribute to wash it down,  then potter back along the fields to pick up the car.  There's an honesty box for payment at the churchyards,  but there always seem to be a couple of cars in the lay by opposite the toilet block looking to avoid paying the  £2!