🇬🇧You NEED to add Cornwall to your bucket list!
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- Cornwall is amazing! We had such a fun time here. Another trip here is going to be necessary! There just wasn't enough time to see it all in 3 days. If you haven't added Cornwall to your bucket list I hope after watching this video that you will. Cornwall offers some of the most spectacular coastal views that we have ever seen!
ℹ️ links
St Michael's Mount www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/
Minack Theatre minack.com/
Land's End landsend-landmark.co.uk/
Poldark Filming Locations www.nationaltrust.org.uk/list...
🕰 timestamps:
00:00 what's coming up
00:15 hi there
00:51 a boat ride and some breakfast
01:58 a seagull stole from us!
02:58 gardens & tomfoolery
08:22 theatre on the sea
10:35 "the end is near"
13:11 Poldark!
14:13 mistakes were made
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Hi! I'm Abbie, a bookworm and cat lady. My husband (Jeff) and I got rid of everything we own (except my books lol) and left sunny California (with our quirky cat Tedward) for gray skies in England. On this channel you’ll find bookish (hauls, reviews) and travel (vlogs, tips, expat life) content!
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You should know that the Phoenicians were sailing to Cornwall to trade for tin 3000 years ago. It is a vital ingredient in the manufacture of bronze. There was so much mining expertise in Cornwall that it was once said that if you looked down a hole anywhere in the world, you'd find a Cornishman at the bottom!
I am a Cornishman from Penzance. Hope you enjoyed our Duchy!
The seagull saw its chance and took it and you've gotta respect that👍.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game 😂
@@clowderlibrary Exactly! BTW, your mum insisting that the reason the grass was flat was because a big cow had lain there was pretty hilarious🐮😆.
@@Chris_34 she could not be persuaded otherwise 🤣
@@clowderlibrary 😂😂😂👍
Daphne du Maurier set her novel "The Birds" in Cornwall. You got off lightly!
Pasty = Pass tee (think a paste-ee is something that underwear models use …)
Gloucester = Gloss terr
Repeating the words over the centuries and being lazy means that we no longer pronounce many of the written syllables.
I’ve seen a lot of videos where British people pronounce city/village names and i can’t get over how entire chunks of names are not pronounced 😅
@@clowderlibrary Map Men do great video explaining why place names are sooo difficult to pronounce in this country. 👍🏻
@@clowderlibrary There is a parish in Cheshire named Cholmondeley. There is also Cholmondeley Castle with Cholmondeley Estate, owned by the Marquess of Cholmondeley. Cholmondeley is pronounced ''chumly'!
Hay on Wye is called the town of books, it has 26 bookshops in all within 5 minutes walk of each other. I think you would love it there.
Hi Ken!
We have plans to go! I know Abbie really wants to see it.
Have a good one 👍
-Jeff
I laughed when the sky rat nabbed your pastry!
those seagulls one landed on my hat bent down and was away with my ice cream. quick as that
The sign post at lands End I was there in 1999 and cycled all the way up to John "O" Groats Scotland. 123O Miles. in 21 days.
Wow!! That is so cool!!
@@clowderlibrary Thanks
I'm lucky enough to live here and I'm so glad you enjoyed yourselves.
So beautiful. Cornwall is one of the nicest counties in England for sure.
We loved it! Can’t wait to go back!
So glad you enjoyed your short trip to Cornwall, it’s so beautiful (if a little damp sometimes!). Most Americans don’t seem to venture that far from London (understandably) but they don’t know what they are missing… it’s a jewel of a county. There’s a reason why most English people chose it as a holiday (or retirement) destination if not going abroad. Along with Norfolk (also worth the effort) it’s one of my favourite places to visit… Hope you get to stay longer on your next adventure!
Oh you reminded me of my Seattle friends who kept saying 'Pais ty' bless em.They would say Pasta but not Pasty....as another comment says 'Past ee!' ...glad you loved Cornwall..come back soon!!
I swear I watched like 15 videos of people saying it correctly and I still said it wrong 🤡
When you visit Cornwall, best not to bother with Lands End. But you did right to go to Botallack. Try walking part of the South West Coastal path
Husband carry’s off the Poldark hat really well👍🏻. I love Cornwall. We go every year out of season, if there is a season🤷♀️. No matter the weather, it’s gorgeous ❤️. Love your videos😍
Thanks Sandra!
I'll save this comment and show it to Abbie each time she gets embarrassed when I wear my hat.
Side note: Aiden Turner himself has approved it. Abbie met him at a convention a couple weeks ago bd showed him my picture. The man has good taste!
@@WVHSFootball fan girling squeaks ! You met Aiden Turner!!! Eek.(Poldark😝🥰🤭). You suited the 18th century headwear☺️.
We live on the outskirts of Romsey so not that far from Salisbury. So happy to see you both enjoying life here😁👍🏻
Shame you missed St Ives . Exceptionally Beautiful town. Be sure to visit next time.
Cornish pasty they are very good .
She may be right about an animal lying on the flowers ,foxes flatten some of my plants by sleeping overnight in flowerbeds , lovely video .. enjoy the rest of your stay .
There are foxes on St Michael’s Mount???!
@@clowderlibrary There are foxes in most areas of UK ,in towns when it's dark you can often see them 👍👍👍
St Micheals mount was where the first beacon was lit to warn of the approaching Spanish Armarda
I think you'll find that arshole is herring gull?
If you're going back for St Michael's Mount, and want to see St. Ives proper, i suggest using the park and ride at St Erth.
So Lovely to see and hear your enjoyment of,
Kernow 🤗🤗
Great Fun(a pastie😂)
Pasty... an emphasis on the Y.
Pastie🤣
Please Come Back.🤗🤺
You All. 🤗🤺
Thankyou for your ❤️.
Clowder library. 👍🤗
I will continue to view, all of your new adventures!!! 😁🤺
Hopefully, you return to Kernow, oneday.
I can give you many, secret and beautiful places to visit.!!!
Here"s One.
" St, Winnow"
You will have to keep an eye out, of the lanes, to get there, mind. 😜
Proper Job.🤗 🤗
I know I've said it before but, in our quaint little island, there is so much to see. This, coupled with the fact that our roads mostly evolved from tracks,
means that you really must allow lots of time for whatever you do. You are bound to stumble across something else that you want to see or explore so
think of the time your need for a trip, and then double it (at least!).....................................................the ancient Englishman.
Thanks for the tip! I definitely want to plan another Cornwall trip! There were so many things I wish we had time to see!!
That is our guilty pleasure and how we run out of time so quickly:) We will have a plan to go to some place, but then get side tracked when we see something cool along the way. I really love it here. Wish we could find a way to stay longer!
P.s. I always like reading your comments, Ancient Englishman!
You need to go to St. Austell and the Eden Project there. It's amazing.
I want to go to Eden Project! Just ran out of time 🥲
Cats can always get their message across. My sister had a cat and put a flea collar on it. The collar used to get discarded within the hour and then she would have to find it and put it back on, then tend to her scratches. After a week the cat tired of the game and she found the collar half buried in her litter tray. My sister got the message.
Ted was going through some major FOMO 😂
Dorset is also a beautiful place
St Ives really is well worth a visit when you return to Cornwall .
We’ll have to try to go there next time! We were all too on edge after accidentally driving past the parking lot 😬
If you do go back to Cornwall, I would recommend Falmouth for a visit. It has 2 Tudor castles, one on either side of the harbour; Pendennis is bigger but St Mawes is prettier - take your pick!
Ooohh! Love we castles!
I've been to the Minack theatre. Would love to see the most apt play to see there: 'The Tempest'. Sometimes performances are upstaged by dolphins performing close bye.
Remember to visit Shropshire. I recommend Ludlow for their food festival. But we do have narrow roads.
Your username definitely doesn’t give away that you adore Shropshire 😆
@@clowderlibrary Thank you. I think you will like it.
I think you might really like Tintagel Castle ...off season
I want to go there!
I've mentioned before that Salisbury is my home town - and now you know how far Cornwall is. So when I was a child, about eight years old, my parents put me on a train and sent me to stay with my mother's sister who had married a Cornishman and lived near Wadebridge (north coast). I had clear instructions on how to change trains in Exeter but I managed it. It was an adventure!
I've had several American friends who've made it over the pond but it took me years to appreciate why they were always rushing about and rarely stopped in one place long enough to take a deep breath. It's because y'all don't have much vacation time off work. When you do get time off it may be only for a week so you have to pack in every last thing. And on top of that, because an American's view on distance is different they think that if places are close together it will be easier to get from one to the other in no time. Now you're finding out that it ain't necessarily so!
Yeah, it’s very unfortunate that we don’t get a lot of days off during the year to travel, which is why most Americans when they do come to England usually just stick around London. For me, my entire state is as big as your entire country and 30 miles could sometimes take 2 hours so my sense of distance is all out of wack 😅
I was working in Cornwall for a telecoms company. I was traveling down a single track road at just before 5:30 am and I had 5 or 6 badgers running front of my van. It was about 2 minutes before they went in to a field.
Badgers????!!!
@@clowderlibrary Yes those big black and white Mammals. They are all over Cornwell.
@@clowderlibrary British badgers aren't the same as American badgers. You'll find them pretty much all over England (can't speak for Scotland) but some counties have lots more than others. Your chances of seeing one are pretty slim however - they're shy, and nocturnal.
You should visit Lizard Point which is the southern tip of the UK mainland. It is less developed and is more dramatic than Lands End. To visit St Ives, park at St Erth train station and get the 15 minute train to St Ives. It is stress free. Avoid mid July till end August
Someone else mentioned Lizard Point to me! I’ll look into it!
If you do go back to Cornwall, pay a less hectic visit to St Ives by getting the little train that runs from Lelant Saltings to St Ives Bay. It really is a lovely trip - short! But lovely and you will go past one of my most favourite bays, Carbis Bay, beautiful and picture postcard pretty 🙂. The trains are quite frequent and it is a fun thing to do - have you been on a train yet? Other places to visit include Mevagissey, which is a fishing port with a sea wall you can walk along and a a lovely beach called Trebarwith Strand which is close to Tintagel and its Castle - the land of King Arthur! I think you have realised that you have hardly scratched the surface of all that Cornwall has to offer its visitors 😊
Ahh! A little train trip sounds lovely!
If you ever make it to the Lake District the hikes and the beautiful landscape will break your heart to leave. Hope your best beloved keeps wearing that hat it looks great and thanks for not showing the hair ball :) .
I considered showing it but it really did look like poo so I thought “eh, better not” 🤣
Hi Abbie & Jeff, You come from the land of the Californian Condor and Giant Eagle and yet you let a small seagull and a tiny Robin steal your breakfast?? Loved the way you pronounced 'Pasty' No seriously say it anyway you like or whatever makes you feel comfortable we're not offended, Looked like a lovely trip and hope the Folks enjoyed it especially mowing down the innocent daytrippers in St Ives, Cheers Jim, Surrey X
We did not let that seagull steal from us willingly 😂-it was highway robbery!! -the Robin was lucky he was cute 😅
That robin was a chaffinch! Which is worse as robins are bolder, braver, and cheekier. 😉
@@carolineb3527 Yep Sorry Caroline, I'm brushing up on my Bird Identification! X
The coast guard rescue service would airlift you to ER or send a speedy boat. All free - unlike some places. But the helicopter rescue service survives on charitable donations.
My uncle climbed up the top of a hill in the Lake District, got all the way down and tripped over the pavement at the bottom breaking his ankle. The street was so narrow that an ambulance could not get to him, so he was airlifted off the kerb.
That’s good to know!! Thank you for the information!
You should see the size of the seagulls where I live near Edinburgh, they are that big they could swoop down and fly away with small children
Sounds like my worst nightmare 😅
So did the parents enjoy the trip? There was so drama and rain, but some nice moments too by the look of it.
They had a great time! Especially my dad!
7-8 days minimum for Cornwall (both coasts) - I'm sure you could find a pet-friendly hotel or two. Or perhaps just one and use it as a base and travel out each day
That’s what I’m thinking for the next time we go!
@@clowderlibrary you should - and you need the smallest car available! ;) loved the video, well done
Dressed for winter.
This was 3 weeks ago-also I’m from California. I’m not built for this weather 😅
You missed the best, St I'ves is stunning
Porthcurno is where the first Telegraph cable was laid across to canada & then to the US & the rest of the British Empire using Brunels Great Eastern the only ship to be able to carry enough cable & enough coal to reach Australia & Back all from the little green hut on the beach, The modern Telecomunication cables still run into the sea here but from a more modern relay station further up the beach, as you walk the beach the world is comunicating beneath your feet how cool is that ??
That is very cool!!
Next time in Cornwall go to the Lizard not as commercial as Lands End
If you thought the coastline was great there try Northern Ireland it will take your breath away 🙂
Checkout Fowey peninsula
✍️adding to the list of things to do
When going to Cornwall, always include your 12 bore shotgun.
You commented on Gloucester Cheese rolling. You should do a re-action video of it!! A friend of mine used to do and win (Nutter)
Jeff has seen a few videos! I haven’t though so maybe I should react to it 😆
Cornwall is our Florida…people want to move there to retire. It gets the warmer weather throughout the year. Locals struggle to get housing especially because it’s a holiday hotspot.
Seems like everyone has their equivalent of Florida. That’s really sad for locals. That’s kinda how I feel about California. So many people coming in that it makes living there ungodly expensive. I would never be able to own property there
If you think those seagulls are bad, try eating fish and chips on the pier at Brighton! The seagulls hunt in packs! I used to live there, it was quite entertaining to watch them mug tourists and steal their fish! 😂
OHHH NOOOOO
@@clowderlibrary I am told if you stay close to a wall the seagulls don't like to try and swoop in.
I’ve been to Cornwall ,probably 7 or 8 times, a week each time. I haven’t seen half of it…..
I’d probably need a month there to see all the things I want to see
Not all of us see Kernow as part of England. Hope you also get to visit North Wales and Chester.
If you like St Michael's Mount then you should visit Mont St Michel in Normandy. It's like StMM but with a big Abbey and a much larger town.
Ps. It's PASS-tee, not PAY-stee lol
well it is apart of England, always has been always will be
You don’t want to get lost on Bodmin moor - hound of the Baskerville territory. But seriously people die there quite often in the heat or the rain or the snow.
Hound of the Baskervilles is set on Dartmoor not Bodmin.
Bodmin Moor is the setting for "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne Du Maurier, (also the author of "Rebecca").
Both books I would highly recommend.
I do want to read some Daphne Du Maurier at some point in my life!
The nearest what is 45 minutes away? Couldn’t make that out.
Emergency hospital. That’s what we were told by a local 😬
@@clowderlibrary
Don't have an emergency, simple. 😉
@@Muckylittleme I’ll try 😅
There's one thing you should know about Cornwall.....it rains a lot. Especially during School Summer holiday time ! (Oh...and please pronounce Pasty right)
Its so much easier going to st ives by train
I’ll keep that in mind for a future trip!
You don’t have to add “England” after Cornwall because it can’t be anywhere else.
I got mugged in Oban Scotland , by a Seagull , I just bought a crab sandwich and before I could eat it this bloody Seagull swooped down from behind and snatched it ,I hate Seagulls 😤
THEY ARE SO SAVAGE!! I have never come across seagulls that are so predatory! They would not let us eat in peace!
Seagulls have been a problem for years. It was initially caused by tourists feeding them all the time. The locals know not to. Sometimes it get's like the Hitchcock movie, The Birds! T - 30 seconds as my name is Bob too ( not the builder but I can fix most things! ) I can't believe you went to St Michael Mount and never went in. The walk up to it is hard going. As you've seen Cornwall is beautiful and has it's own unique magic! We all want to live there but it is very expensive! About 60 - 70% of the homes are now '2nd homes' owned by the wealthy from London and the Home Counties who only live in them a few weeks of the year. Most of the time they are empty! Because of that major problem the vast majority of the locals can't even afford to live there! The Minack Theatre is heavenly if you go and watch a performance in the evening, as the sun is setting. Lands End used to be very rugged and natural but back around the 90s they ruined it by building the amusements and some other crap! You even get charged for standing by it's famous signpost to most major places in the world. Back in the 80s we took our own photos by it for free! It is not pronounced 'Pastie' as you said it but 'Pass' 'Tee' 'Pas' as in 'ass', 'Ty' as in 'tea'. Most Americans ALWAYS make the same mistake. They 'think' they can visit each place in an hour, when in fact you need a day or more at each location! We might be a small island / kingdom but there is more to see than you can possibly imagine. There is a working tin mine that you can visit and see it's giant beam engines. The cheese rolling is up in Gloucestershire but it's not pronounced 'Glou' as in 'how' but with the Gl and pronounced 'Glost' at the start.
There is the South West Coast Path that runs along the edge of Cornwall, Devon and parts of Somerset for 650 miles, full of interesting trails and hikes. There are signs for it and plenty of maps, the OS one being the most detailed showing EVERYTHING! They are available in every WH Smiths and other good stores across the UK. They help you to find the most secret hidden places too. When you accidentally drove through beautiful St. Ives, if you'd kept going long that harbourside road and turned right you could have parked on Smeatons Pier which you could see opposite. Back on that road is the wonderful ancient Smugglers Pub called 'The Sloop Inn' which you would have passed on your left. There is an artists quarter in St. Ives too. If you walk along the tiny streets behind the harbour, there are unique shops full of the local crafts and pottery, with plenty of interesting bookshops!! You should have visited the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, such a world famous amazing place. www.jamaicainn.co.uk You should try Tintagel Castle and town too, home of King Arthur. And have you heard of The Isles of Scilly ? They are our sub-tropical islands about 25 miles out into the Atlantic. You can get there by light aircraft from Newquay Airport, or go by helicopter from Penzance ( if it is still operating. ) Do NOT go on The Scillonian ship, it is a helluva ride where you get seasick! Here's the latest vlog from Cornish Walking Trails too, with a place that you've probably never heard of. 💙💜🧡💚 th-cam.com/video/i04id6XfmmU/w-d-xo.html
Thank you so much for all the lovely tips and suggestions!! I’m already planning what I want to do next time in Cornwall!
Wow Bobby, thanks for the awesome info!
We really did want to go inside St. Michael's Mount, Dover Castle and Tintagel. We just did not have enough time :( We naively thought we could do Cornwall in 2 days. Even after we extended to 3 days we just couldn't fit everything in. We definitely have to go back!
The double edged sword of comments like yours is that you have amazing tips! The flip side is that it depresses me that we missed so much haha.
Have a good one 👍
-Jeff
@@clowderlibrary My pleasure as always! You could spend a lifetime in Cornwall and never get bored. I have been going there for 60+ years since I was a tiny kid and it will always feel like home to me. 💙🧡💚
@@WVHSFootball My pleasure Jeff! You could never do Cornwall in 2 years let alone 2 or 3 days. It will take a lifetime! I have been going there for 60+ years since I was a little kid and I still haven't seen it all. Another couple of nice places with fabulous beaches are Holywell Bay, and Perranporth. There are plenty of places to go surfing everywhere though Newquay is the most popular with Fistral Beach. And Sarah and Andrew in their Cornish Walking Trails videos will usually take you off the beaten track and give you lot's of history, as well as other info such as parking and most other things! I am having a good one thanks down here in Shaftesbury in Dorset, an ancient Saxon hilltop town going back to 880 AD and earlier, with King Alfred the Great. Here is a famous commercial made here in 1973 down Gold Hill in town. It was made by Ridley Scott, director of Alien and more, which started off his long career! 😊🎥🎬👍😎 th-cam.com/video/6Mq59ykPnAE/w-d-xo.html
The 'Pastries' are called......Paaaaasties!
Yesssss and I need another one ASAP
@@clowderlibrary When you next shop in a Supermarket look out for packaging marked: Ginsters Pasty, which are sold individually and slightly smaller versions in a multiple pack. They are made in Cornwall and taste like they should. They can be microwaved or oven baked. Oven Baked is best, resulting in crisp pastry, Microwave is obviously quicker but much, much softer pastry.
Pronunciation: Past E, like “Nasty”
If you have difficulty locating them, just ask anyone working in the store where the Ginsters products are, they are usually very helpful. Hope you enjoy them.
It saddens me that a lot of americans dont travel outside of their bubble of America, you have see some of the beauties in england, you could never see all that we have, the history, America is Beautiful but its mostly nature that does it there, not many ancient buildings and history unlike the uk and europe. it really opens your mind and eyes
A lot of Americans simply can’t afford to travel. It easily costs $5,000 for a 2 week trip to Europe. Just flying from one side of our country to the next could be $1,000+. We don’t have affordable airlines like Ryanair and EasyJet. We have Spirit but even they’re starting to get pricey. I know so many people who wish they could go to Europe or Asia but just can’t afford to or lack enough paid holiday days. Most get 2 weeks out of an entire year.
@@clowderlibrary I know and that makes me sad, i could get a flight from the nearest airport to me and i can be in germany in about an hour, i can hope on a train and be there in less time that it takes to cross to ocean (used to live in texas so i know the travel my ex was texan )
A little trivia for you
As I was going to St Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St Ives? What's the answer
Just the man 😅--I’m terrible at math and riddles 🤡
Well done10/10 I do hope you didn't use Google?
You went all the way there and *didn't* enter the castle?!? 😲
If you ever do make it, karma will oblige you to visit Mont St. Michel in France later.
We didn’t have enough time 🥲
Fodoes must be the enemy of Dodos
Sea gulls are gangsters. There are vidios where they just walk in to a shops and steal packets of crisps.
I believe it!! They are so savage here!
DAM.. when even 'Edward the Cat' is doing an Amber Heard on the Bed. That's all you need. Hilarious stuff.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 OMG
@@clowderlibrary Yeah.. sorry about that but. As obviously l alone had to mention that particular refferance. Typical me.. but loved the Tour Vid as usual, looked like you all had a fantastic time. To be honest, incredibly jealous. As the Day looked Beautiful. 😉
@@theboywithathorninhisside.4179 Amber turd jokes will never NOT be funny lol
Don’t say paistey say Pasty, there is a different one is a strippers boob covering the other is a pie meal usually called an Oggy as in Oggy Oggy Oggy oye, oye ,oye. Theoretically it’s the best hang over shortener in the world, bottle of Coke and an Oggy wait 15min be sick in the toilet and your head is clear job done. At least thats what I kept telling myself when I was younger.
😅
Wherever you go in the UK … golden rule ….. Don’t feed or encourage the Seagulls … I’ve seen people get mobbed by a flock of Seagulls and it isn’t funny …. Hitchcock’s film The Birds 🦅 comes to mind and when it happens it’s very scary …..
I would never willingly feed a seagull. We have the same problem with them in California. Nasty little buggers!
Cornwall is not in England! It is its own country! It has a flag and language of its own.
Google maps identifies it as England. Literally every government source lists it as England. Hawaii has its own language, culture, and it at one time had its own royalty but it’s still part of the US no matter how much the people want it to be otherwise 🤷🏻♀️