Plans changed today, we were going to visit Port Isaac and then the Carnglaze Caverns, however Ron needed to go to Vodaphone in Truro to sort his phone and data problems out.  We headed for Truro, dropped Ron and Tina at the Vodaphone Shop and Kel and I went looking for a parking spot whilst waiting.  Luckily we found a parking stop about 1/4 mile from the shop in the town car park and managed to find a space available to park.  Left the car and headed to the Truro Cathedral that we had passed on the way to the car parking.  What a magnificent structure although young by some of the ones we have seen over the past few weeks, this one was built in 1880.  We spoke with the duty Priest and he showed us a couple of the finer details and explained the stained glass windows to us, it has seventy stained glass windows in the Cathedral.

We decided to have lunch at the Cathedral and spent over an hour and a half chatting to some more visitors from Portsmouth and Hampshire who shared our table due to the crowd.  We ordered cream teas all round and it was delightful.

From Truro to Port Isaac to have a look at “Port Wren” - Doc Martin’s territory.  Quaint village, managed to see the spots from the movie set.  We went into the chemist and spoke with the gentleman there and he told us they were filming again next Tuesday and Wednesday.  He also told us that they cleared his shop and set it up as a movie set on the Monday night and then put it all back to normal again after filming.   Amazing really.  

We headed home around 1600 and stopped for some lozenges for Tina’s cough.  I went the wrong way around a turning and just missed a vehicle coming out the right road.  He was rather abusive to me, I suppose I deserved it but I had thought he was further back than he was.  Then going up towards the lodge, two buses were coming down the street, cars parked both sides and no pull ins.  I had to drive into someone’s driveway to have enough space for the buses to pass.  I then backed out and got the clear to get up the road.  Couple of interesting close calls today with the narrow roads with locals moving rather fast and coming towards me and not slowing down.

Great day and enjoyed all we managed to see and visit.

The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Truro is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Truro, Cornwall. It was built between 1880 and 1910 to a Gothic Revival design by John Loughborough Pearson on the site of the parish church of St Mary. It is one of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom with three spires.

The Diocese of Truro was established in December 1876, and its first bishop, Edward White Benson, was consecrated on 25 April 1877 at St Paul's Cathedral.

Construction began in 1880 to a design by the leading Gothic Revival architect John Loughborough Pearson. Truro was the first cathedral to be built on a new site in England since Salisbury Cathedral in 1220. It was built on the site of the 16th-century parish church of St Mary the Virgin, a building in the Perpendicular style with a spire 128 feet (39 m) tall.   The final services in St Mary's were held on Sunday 3 October 1880 and the church was demolished that month, leaving only the south aisle, which was retained to serve as the parish church.  From 24 October 1880 until 1887 a temporary wooden building on an adjacent site served as the cathedral. The seats were free and unappropriated, accommodated fewer than 400 people and was extremely hot in summer and cold in winter. It was in this building that Benson introduced the new evening service of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve, 1880.  By October 1887 the choir and transepts were complete. The service of consecration took place on 3 November, performed by E. W. Benson, by then Archbishop of Canterbury. His successor as Bishop of Truro, George Wilkinson, and twenty other bishops were also present, together with civic representatives and diocesan clergy, and about 2,000 other people.  The central tower was finished by 1905 and the building was completed with the opening of the two western towers in 1910. J. L. Pearson died in 1897 and his son Frank took over the project.