Sunday 14 September 2008

St Piran Charity Tour

It was a lovely sunny morning and the Cornwall MX-5's were joining the St Piran Sports Car Club on a charity drive in aid of Cornwall Hospice Care. The 5's met at Wadebridge so that we could drive to Pencarrow House (the start of the run) in convoy. Seven cars turned up and we were parked in front of the House (amongst Morgans, Sunbeams and Jaguars to name a few) which was stunning ...

To the left was an amazing garden ...

complete with a beautiful fountain ...

We all walked through to the Peacock Cafe for a coffee ...

and to see the peacock, hens, doves and guinea fowl which were strutting about the grounds ...


It was then back to the cars and time to set off on the drive ...

We were making for Fraddon but via the narrowest of roads imagineable ...

with fantastic views ...

and causing a bit of chaos here and there ...

as about forty cars made the journey in convoy!

Hamish had come with us and he spent most of the time with his head out and looking where he was going ...

After a half hour break at the Kingsley Village, Fraddon we set off again down more narrow roads and passing wonderful gardens ...

I always have to try one of these photos ...

We finally reached the North Coast road and made our way to Trevose Golf Club where the Sports Car Club members were booked in for lunch ...

Sharon had collected our donations to the Charity and she presented them ...

to the organisers before we drove off to find a picnic spot for the 5's. Not as easy as you'd think!

The first suggestion was to go to Trevose Head along the Toll Road ...

but it was too expensive so we all turned round and headed for a car park at Harlyn Bay which was even more money!

So we carried on along the road until a sign was spotted to Hawkers Cove and a P was next to it. With fingers crossed we all drove down the road until we saw this ...

Well by this time everyone was starving hungry and £2.00 wasn't too bad to pay so we turned down the track only to find this ...

Yay! Free parking and a fab view to boot ...


A great end to a lovely day out.



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