EJ and Rhe's World Trip: ENGLAND 1 November – 8 November 2011 (Dartmoor National Park, Eden Project, Stithians Lake, St Ives, Lands End, London)

G’Day!

We have been busy little travellers this week! We made our way from Longleat through the gorgeous Dartmoor National Park and into Looe where we stayed the night. Next day we visited The Eden Project in Cornwall. We spent a day looking around at all the exhibitions, visiting the rainforest and Mediterranean biome’s and ‘The Core,’ yup that’s right, we went to the centre of the earth lol with our special little boots on.. After we made our way to Stithians Lake where we stayed at the Golden Lion Inn, a pub with a campsite out the back! We had an awesome meal here and stayed warm by the fire, meeting the locals and experimenting with new beers and ciders J

Next day we drove to St Ives and wandered around this beautiful little fishing and surfing town. Both of our brother in law’s would have loved it here haha! This place gets absolutely packed in Summer but it was relatively quiet and incredibly windy while we were there lol… All the same, we sampled the traditional Cornish pastie and had yet more coffee, beers and cake haha We stayed just out of St Ives, close to the beach and enjoyed watching the surfers from the massive sand dunes!

On to Land’s End, the most South-Western point of the UK and it was sooo windy haha. Rhe thought she would get windswept off the side of the cliff. It was incredibly gorgeous here, the rugged cliffs look out over the Isles of Scilly and the great Atlantic. Here we sampled the Cornish cream tea as well! We walked to the pub in the afternoon and settled in for Guy Fawkes Night! We watched some football with the locals and they had a huge bonfire out the back, the size of a house, it even had a boat in it haha! They set heaps of fireworks later on and had a pig on the spit for everyone. We had a couple of fireworks in the van so we set them off when we left too J

We got a phone call that night from a couple in London saying that they wanted to buy our van the next day! We packed up the next morning and drove the 6 hours to meet them. They looked through, made us an offer and the deal was done. Our little Thundie was moving onto his 11^th owner and we are now homeless and scared haha! We ended up travelling a total of 13,941km over our trip in the van!! All we did to it was new oil, Fillter, Wiper Blades, Few shelves, 12v Fan....... Happy days

And so the next part of our journey begins….. Backpacker style!