Cornwall

The Eden Project, Cornwall, England
A wonderful garden - the Eden Project - with plants from across the world
Shakespeare once wrote, "I know a bank whereon the wild thyme grows". Wild thyme grows best in a Mediterranean climate, but there is a place in Cornwall where thyme and other Mediterranean plants are neighbours to rainforest plants such as rubber trees, bananas and cacao, as well as to vegetables that grow well in an English allotment. Such a strange mix of trees, flowering plants, herbs and vegetables from different climatic zones would not be out-of-place in Shakespeare's a Midsummer's Ni...

Waiting For Cornwall
A List of Things To Do in Cornwall
Opposite: Me in Cornwall holding an invisible pixie. Um... no I'm not about to throw it off the cliff. We were having a very civil conversation. I'm off to Cornwall on holiday this year *excitement* it's the county next door! But that's OK because it's one of my favourite places to visit and a top spot for holidays in the UK. I've made this lens so I could research some of the things we could do and sites we could see once we're there. I've also included some of my old photos from previous ...

Cornish Holiday
Yarr, me hearties...
Not a real pirate, merely one of the freaky models which were part of our caravan park's adventure playground. I wondered if perhaps anyone who left their caravan in a less than perfect state got strung up on the originally named "Black Pearl", their body forever immortalised Carry On Screaming style. Anyway here's a quick round up of what I got up to in Cornwall on my Summer holiday 2009, eventually you'll probably find featured lenses that go into more detail dotted down the page (that's t...