I pity the campers in tents last night it pelted with rain lucky no one was struck by the lightning. The Caravan site is filling with the holiday crowd (the English love camping and caravan sites) for the Bank Holiday weekend and this morning we are being entertained by a couple putting up their framed tent in the wind.

The weather looks bleak but we now know it rains at night and if it is overcast and cool the next day there is no rain just need to have your winter woollies back on. Just looking round the caravan site the English are tough with shirt and shorts on with little jacket, must think we are silly all rugged up.

No problems finding our way to Land's End bypassed Penzance on the A30 heavy traffic coming the other way to start their weekend holiday. Had to keep our wits about ourselves with the many roundabouts, beautiful lush green scenery driving along canopy covered roads. Got a bit scary from the village of Drift to Crows-An-Wra heavy fog at times we could just see the car in front Richard had to be careful driving on the winding road and thankfully it wasn’t a small lane with hedges.

Our prayers were answered when we reached Land’s End the fog disappeared, still overcast the wind bites like through you but it is a good day to walk and explore. 10.30am the carpark is filling up £6.00 to park for the day is good no worries about rushing back to the motorhome.

Land’s End is now very commercial like you go through the West Country Shopping Village consisting of an Information Centre, gift shops, cafes, restaurant, amusement rides and you can also stay at the Land’s End Hotel. Before you reach the first lookout at Land’s End you walk by Penwith House which was originally built as a temperance hotel for Victorian visitors to land’s End who preferred an establishment with no alcohol on the premises. Sadly today this charming old building is home to a shop selling nautically-themed gifts, souvenirs and confectionery.

  You nearly get blown away when you take in the spectacular views of the rugged coastline cliffs and across the Atlantic Ocean. We continued our walk round Land’s End to the First and Last House, which was originally opened by a lady called Gracie Thomas who served travellers at land’s End with welcome food and drinks, plus pieces of local granite as souvenirs. Now it is another tourist shop but it does sell real Cornish ice cream.

We were feeling adventurous and starting from the famous Land’s End signpost walked the Northward walk (2.8 miles) past the First and Last Point to the Coastguard Lookout at Sennen. Like many other people we stopped to soak up the fantastic views of the rugged coastline, which can be very dangerous and the proof is the wreck of the RMS Mulheim a German cargo ship on 22/03/03 when the Chief Officer fell unconscious while on watch.

The walk was exhilarating but it was nice to get back to a warm motorhome to have lunch and a hot drink.

Richard had found a ladies bike for me on Gumtree and I had been corresponding with the owner Anita and we are going to meet her and her husband Simon in the ASDA carpark in Hayle where they live before we replenish our food supply. The bike was perfect and a good buy for £20.00.

Now we are on the road heading for Newquay (the surfing town) Anita said a free place to park was Headland Hotel where they take visitors a forty minute drive away. Smooth driving on the A30 and as we pass the B3284 before Marazanvose you start to see lots of wind turbines in the fields plus solar farms. Missed to sharp turn to the A3058 but found a service station to pump up the tyres then back on course passing through Dairyland (lots of cows).

As it was getting late in the day and the weather was changing we decided to stay the night at Treloy Touring Park St Columb Minor just outside of Newquay. A family orientated site the swimming pool is packed with kids having fun and there are lots of things for the many families there to be entertained with.

While in the ladies shower a little person by the name of Richard mistook the ladies showers for the gents and he got the shock of his life when he saw me at the basin and you know what I thought the walls were very thin because I could hear him cough. We had a good joke about it and he was lucky I was the only lady in the showers, as it would have been entertaining or a shock for some other lady might have thought Richard was a "peeping tom".