Day 46 (4th August 2022)

 With Guy & Morgan packed off and heading back home and only one place to visit on the Germinal CCXXIV list of wonderful places, I had most of the day in the city of Truro, somewhere I'd never been to before. I was due to meet up with my old mate Helen (aka Hellun!) at lunchtime but I got there a couple of hours earlier so I could visit the cathedral. It is one of the newer ones but old enough and grand enough to get lost in for almost two hours.

The blue light is the sun shining through a replacement piece of glass that was replaced after a local lad shot his gun at the window during WWII - the only damaged sustained during the war. 

Hellun and I visited the older church at Kenwyn looking for bits of pagan influences before wandering into Truro and having a catch up in one of the parks. I'm really touched with how after over 3 decades, time just fell away and that we seemed so at ease with each other. I can't wait for Guy & Morgan to make her acquaintance!

It was over an hours drive through some lovely countryside and a rickety old ferry 

to the fabulous village that is stop #102

POLPERRO 

Polperro really is a delightful place and it almost pained me that Guy wasn't here to see it with me. Although it is understandably very touristy, it still had the feel of a working fishing village, something that places like Clovelly and Boscastle seem to have lost.

 I ended up in a pub sampling some of the local fish (and a local gin) before getting pulled back into reality when my campsite for the next two nights rang me up to check if I was on my way. So here I am near Looe (definitely spending some time there tomorrow) finishing today's Germinal CCXXIV adventure with you. Only two weeks left... and still absolutely no idea where on earth is Moist Covert!

Allons-y 

Douglas Germinal CCXXIV Brain over and out