OK, Tomtom offered me a route of 305 miles at 7 hours 10 minutes driving time and I covered less than 265 miles in 6.5 hours via Pentrefoelas, Bridgenorth, and Kidderminster to The Duporth guest house in Penzance, admittedly it was in one hit with no stops.
The B&B was interesting with a very shy gentleman who showed me the room who obviously did not want to engage in small talk. The room was a little tired with a spring based bed however the towels were soft and the in room, self serve breakfast was very good indeed, fresh fruit and yoghurt with toast and boiled eggs if you can work out how to use the egg boiler!!
A very friendly efficient chap relieved me of my car only a hundred yards from the Scillonian ferry that was to take me smoothly to the island of St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. My first impression was that this could be a nice place to explore in a boat of some kind but the known 700 wrecks off the coast may indicate a measure of planning and care may need to be exercised. St Mary's is cute, quaint and apparently a desirable place to live and could be regarded as a paradise with warm temperatures, no crime and a population of only 1700 people but against that there are only three pubs, virtually no entertainment and it is very small, I think that gaol fever could lead to alcoholism very easily.
Today, Saturday we went to Tresco to visit the gardens which are full of plants mainly from the antipodes and South Africa and although they are pretty I personally don't think that are a challenge to Bodnant and other mainland gardens. The highlight of the trip was the walk round the island which gave us spectacular views of a coastline that could have been in the Caribbean or some other exotic location, I could visit there again.
Tomorrow is a free day so I plans a short relaxing walk after visiting the museum then on Sunday we are walking the islands of Gugh and St Agnes with the added incentive of a Cornish pasty for lunch.
