Good luck with that chap in Nigeria!!! Jan in California ----- Original Message ----- From: <JMT1941@aol.com> To: <cornish@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:14 PM Subject: [CORNISH] Now: train to Cornwall > In 1985, while on a business trip to London, I extended my stay over a > weekend so that I might visit Cornwall, birthplace of all four of my > grandparents. On a Friday, I boarded the Cornish Riviera at Paddington > station bound > for Penzance. I had no definite plan and when the train made a stop at St > Erth I decided to get off and catch the spur line that went to St Ives. > At > St Ives I booked a room at the Regent Hotel for the night. The next > morning, Saturday, I explored St Ives a bit then struck out walking to > Penzance in > order to catch the train back to London that evening. My stroll took me > through Towednack, Amalveor, Georgia, Chypons, and Nancledra to name a > few. ( > Had biscuits and tea with a nice lady at Chypons Farm, purchased an ice > cream in Nancledra, and had a pasty when I got to Penzance.) The weather > was > perfect; took a lot of pictures including the Wilson's cat at Amelbra, > It's been almost 28 years but the experience hasn't faded. Perhaps I'll > return > some day after that fellow in NIgeria releases those funds he wants to > share with me. > Joe Trewhella > > > In a message dated 1/24/2013 9:48:51 P.M. Central Standard Time, > sherleetooze@interlinks.net writes: > > Ann and List members: > We always take the train down to Cornwall - a lovely ride with great > scenery! Then we hop a bus over to Bodmin and rent a car when we need > it. Makes a smaller hole in our travel budget doing it that way! We > find > the train goes just about everywhere we want to go, so don't have a car > for > very long - we take a car up to Devon - Tavistock and area - still > almost > in Cornwall! I agree with everyone so far. > Sher > > > > > At 06:09 PM 24/01/2013 -0800, you wrote: >> >> >>Eating pasties, purchased in Hayle, at Lelant Station in 2007 was a very >>memorable day for Alan and me. And ~ I have taken the train from London > to >>Penzance, and back several times. Why rent a car until you arrive in >>Cornwall? >> >> >> >>Ann >> >> >> >> >> >>Oh, and the branch line to St Ives, via Lelant and Carbis Bay has to be > one >>of the most beautiful routes on earth (althouth I admit I'm biased, > because >>Anna and I often sit at Lelant Station to eat our lunch and watch the > birds >>on the estuary). >> >> >> >> >> >>And the wonderful thing is that if you come to Cornwall by rail, you can >>still come in all the way from London and finish up at the end of the >>country at Penzance, where the train has to stop or it would roll off >>into >>the ocean (via St Erth)!!! >> >> >> >>John. >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com >>with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, >>MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. >> >>Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to > CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>No virus found in this incoming message. >>Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>Version: 8.5.455 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/5549 - Release Date: 01/21/13 >>21:23:00 > > ------------------------------- > Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com > with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, > MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to > CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com > with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, > MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to > CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message