Cornwall – Eden Project,
Lostwithiel, Fowey
With a couple of days to fill in before heading to stay in
Devon, we (i.e. Pen) located a great little apartment in Lostwithiel, the
ancient capital of Cornwall, a picturesque town (like most of them seem to be!)
in a large old building called Peregrine Hall. When built in Victorian times, it
was apparently a home for wayward girls, who were put to work doing laundry for
the local gentry, in order to keep them on the straight and narrow. It’s now divided
up into small apartments, set in a beautiful garden just outside the historic
Lostwithiel village, an old Stannary town with a nearby castle which was a former
stronghold of the Black Prince.
On the way there we visited the Eden Project, an educational
charity which has transformed a disused quarry into a green, eco-friendly environmental
science experiment and display. Really interesting to visit and very in tune
with the tenor of the times; and hugely popular locally as a tourist attraction.
We made a day trip to the nearby port town of Fowey
(pronounced “Foy”) which was an unexpected delight – very attractive town at
the mouth of the river, where Daphne du Maurier used to holiday as a child in a
house now owned by her son, then later lived there in a house which became the
inspiration for Mandalay in “Rebecca”, which is now owned by Dawn French!
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| Peregrine Hall - sadly, all the wild wayward girls have gone... |
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| Our apartment at the far end |
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| View from garden across Lostwithiel valley |
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