Hello darling friends. Are you out there? We are, somewhere, but don’t ask me to be specific! I’m writing to wish you a Happy Easter, and catch you up on the last week here in luv-lee England by the sea! MUSICA (Luv-lee Vera Lynn)
Let’s do both! We’re off the ship! Goodbye wonderful Queen Victoria. We loved every moment of our time with you. 💞 Grab a cup of something hot and join me for the “homecoming.”
Waking up early last Friday, I went out on our deck in my jammies to see the lights and breathe my first breaths of England all around us . . . we’d arrived!
We had to stay on the boat until they could get the bags off and it was our turn to go. . . so we went to the Lido for breakfast ~ my last breakfast on the ship was perfection, one poached egg, half a broiled tomato, and a wee slice of hash browned potatoes. You have to agree it was pretty cute!
And suddenly, we were on land (where I continued rocking for two more days!). And there was no doubt which country we were in.
With just enough STUFF to keep us feeling as though we have everything. Which we do. I took pictures of men and bags while we waited for Rachel who was coming to pick us up!
Here we are, two people who should never have met because it was quite impossible, but who did anyway, as in a miracle, who have so much in common and so much love for each other. Together again.
And Rachel’s darling husband, Paul … we marvel every time we see them, which is never enough, how lucky the four of us are to have found each other . . .
We sat and had lunch and talked about a thousand miles a minute, but they had to catch a train home, and we are off in another direction, for now . . .
Into the careen-mo-bile we went . . . here’s the map of England I painted for A Fine Romance, I haven’t painted the new one yet, I’ll need to add Ireland this time! But see the foot going off at the bottom left on the map? That’s where we’re going to be staying for the first two weeks, in Cornwall, just below the Devon border. But, see the ship? Our hotel for the first night is on the coast, just above the ship’s smokestack. A short drive, for practice.
Hither and yon we went (that’s as specific as I can get about where we actually were) ~ It was clear ship-life was over and there would be no more sunbathing! Winter had returned! Our green and pleasant land is on the verge.
We are going to see the whole change of season as the trees bud into leaf, and the hedgerows become less brambly and fill with leaves, birds nests, and wildflowers, we will be witness!
But for now, the reality is that that white spot is snow, and baby, it’s cold outside. (Right now, inside, I am wearing two sweaters and a shawl. Joe’s out, and just called to tell me it had been hailing! Sounds just like home!)
Only drove past our hotel twice, trying to figure out how to get into the narrow driveway. But Joe did it. 👏 Each time he becomes more comfortable driving on the wrong side of the road . . . and I’m thinking I should get those things they put on a horse’s eyes so it doesn’t get spooked. Okay, a blindfold.
We checked in, then stood and marveled at the view from our room. Way over there, you can see a church with a clocktower and churchyard, and in the foreground there are thatched houses. Squealing. We are really in England! Couldn’t get it to sink in! 
The Limestone Hotel in West Lulworth was the sweetest place to stay ~ we woke up our first morning in the total quiet of the countryside pierced by the music of birds ~ and the food there was amazing. At breakfast they actually handed me the menu tucked inside a Beatrix Potter Book!!!
Why? I don’t know, because they are English and can’t help themselves. Because they like to see Americans go bonkers. (Quietly bonkers, as we are strangers in a strange land and wish to draw as little attention as possible to our idiot selves!)
As we walked out, we saw the bin filled with their breakfast “menus.” I’m afraid I took this a little personally. Our first breakfast? On our first day in England? Doesn’t this seem a bit much serendipity-wise? Did one of you call ahead? 💞
We stayed only one night (lamenting the whole time, we wanted to stay longer, the story of our lives with everything we’ve done this week!), then we were off along narrow roads and through tiny villages to find our rental house near Bude in Cornwall (close to the Devon border), me with the camera glued to the car window. We left the ship on March 23rd, and today, as I’m writing you, the birds are still singing, and I’m in a whirl of everything we have done!
Colors have gone by in a watercolor blur, little dogs on leashes, flying white clouds, ancient churchyards, pubs, stone walls, cobblestone streets, and fields of lambs, feeling yourself falling back in time through your car window. Good thing I’m writing it all down or I would be totally lost! We’re still trying to get our land legs! I could honestly write all day every day, I’m so inspired. I barely know what to tell you first . . . I’m trying to be organized . . . one thing at a time, stay focused . . .
So, on the way to the rental house, we made the all-important first stop at our favorite supermarket to stock up with everything we’d need to wake up the next morning and Sing Ho! This famous English market is like a good book, you get inside and you don’t want to come out. Every picture tells a story. Crisp organic vegetables, eggs so fresh and local the yolks are bright orange, seeded crunchy breads, salted butter, fresh from the farm whole chickens, and massive juicy, tart blueberries from Spain ~ and no GMO’s, they aren’t allowed in England. 💋
We found the cottage we’d rented, found the key, got ourselves unpacked, and slept like babies. And what do you know, the next morning the sun came out (for a while, the sun in England plays hide and seek with the clouds) … and here is our thatched cottage which I would have recognized anywhere ~ been dreaming of getting here for months!
This is the living room. It’s not grand but there are three small bedrooms upstairs, one for us, one for our luggage and one for Siobhan who is coming this afternoon to stay with us for the weekend (we have reservations for “Sunday Roast” Easter Dinner 🌸 ~ more about that later).
We go off for a muddy walk, pop some musica into the car and wind our way through the brambly hedgerows, exploring all day, then back home where Joe builds a fire. I make tea and write, Joe reads maps while we watch Mary Berry make goat cheese on TV, and Goggle Box which may be the funniest thing on television. In between, I am reading a wonderful book, the Pulitzer Prize winning Washington by Ron Chernow ~ an amazing biography of our first President. Big fat book that Lowely’s John gave me… so big, will probably last the whole trip. I LOVE it. Can’t wait to go to bed and read! While we walk each morning, I tell Joe what I learned the night before. If you like history, you’ll love this book!
And as always, when we leave home, we are automatically lost. Inside the rental house, too. Where’s my camera? Where’s my pen, where’s my jacket, hat, purse, phone … because nothing has a place here. I forgot. I took it for granted at home on the Island, how normal it is to have things where they belong. That is over. Not to mention how does this washing machine work, is this really the door key, and tell me again about the money. And the constant refrain “what do you suppose this is, means, stands for?” Ahh, glorious travel. Love being all so much more ignorant than usual. I’m ten years old again and everything is new. Things are so different here, it makes you think . . .
Here’s our new tip for travel: You’ll love this, it works like a charm.
Don’t let these narrow roads scare you … get behind a truck (a lorrie), and let him run interference. He knows what he’s doing and you don’t. Never leave him if you can help yourself. Do not pass. That is idiocy of the first kind.
Narrow road where people park in your lane? No problem, follow that truck! His bravado will blow your mind, but just go with it.
Afraid that everyone is stopped around the curve? Don’t worry, you have a truck in front of you! (Been looking for a good place to use this quote and I think I’ve found it:)
So where shall I take you, what would you like to see? That is my question. We have been to so many places, but I need to pick one because you can’t stay here all day and suffice it to say, neither can I! I know, I’ll give you a little taste of everything . . .
Starting with pubs, which you probably know are everywhere. Bastions of good will. The food in England is two thumbs up and six stars. Here, we are in a beautiful candlelit place that Rachel suggested, in front of a fire at the St. Tudy Inn, in the tiny town of St. Tudy (Say, “sinteudie,” one word) ~ run by a famous chef here in England, Emily Scott. So lucky to come for lunch on a week-day just before Easter, I’m sure next week we’d never get in!
It was just yummy . . . this is “Port Hilly mussels with Bacon and Lovage” . . . (they forgot to mention in cream sauce!). Mouth fell in love.
OMG. Is all I can say, don’t look at me while I slurp them down and lick the shells!
After lunch we explored the village . . . because all this was waiting just outside the pub door. We looked over the roof tops and saw this . . .
And visited the wonderful church . . .
Where we found this marble tablet on the wall. Called “A Table of Kindred and Affinity.” It’s not about intermarrying, which is what we first thought, but then we decided it was more about keeping the peace in a small village! According to this rule-tablet, you may NOT marry your son’s son 🤓, nor your sister’s daughter’s husband! 😜 Don’t even try it! And even though you’re not related to him, it’s just asking for trouble if you marry your Husband’s Brother’s Son.
On another wall was this delicately carved thing . . . the church was lovely, we read that it got its start as a Celtic graveyard called God’s Acre . . . filled with history, and beautifully needlepointed kneeling pillows in every pew.
Perfect for Easter . . .
The church yard was peaceful, and the pigeons sang the national anthem, as they have forever, “My toe-huts-Bet-tee” . . . 🎵
Primroses were peeking from their winter lodging in rock walls . . . clusters of daffodils were everywhere.
Back through the village we went, back in time, past windows with lace curtains . . .
And BTW, if you like lace-curtained windows, you’ve come to the right place!
Because they’re everywhere. This gorgeous curtain was in an AMAZING village called Clovelly, pronounced Cluh-VELLIE. The black enamel door, the brass numbers, key hole, and mail box, a wee work of door art.
These curtains too, so pretty . . . want to come back and see what this wall looks like in the summer! I think those are climbing roses. Can you imagine? So romantic.
And these curtains . . . which also came with something else that Clovelly is known for . . .
Lots of friendly kitties . . .
Just like home . . .
And they not only like to be petted, they expect it (spoiled by us appreciative far-from-home tourists). . . if they see that come-hither gleam in your eye, they will come right up to you and rub your leg, making your day! As you can see, they live in a tiny, vertical, fishing village, very steep (what is the word for steeper than steep, steep doesn’t do it), built on the rocky coast, and every one of the cobblestones you see, and many more, were brought up from the shoreline below and laid by hand. There is a strong legacy of insanity that runs rampant in this village. It’s a real place with real people, not a museum, and all handmade. And no cars allowed. No vehicles at all. Don’t even try to bring your skateboard.
Near the front door of each home you’ll see what they call a sledge. Not a sled, a sledge. Residents pull everything from their cars in the car park home on one of these, groceries, fertilizer for their charming little gardens, firewood, probably their babies too, it all comes this way or it doesn’t come. Imagine the days before heat and electricity? At one time, we read, everything came down by mule, even tourists. There are still mules living up at the top near the gift shop.
Lots of different styles of sledges in Clovelly!
Real people live here, and that is one of them below Joe ~ he is RUNNING with his dog … normal people can barely walk on this street, but he is a runner and just getting home.
The locals really do have to put up with a lot to live in this historical place, there isn’t a lot of privacy. There are hotels and pubs so it doesn’t exactly “close” but most of the tourists leave by around 5 or 6 … later in the summer. And you should mind your p’s and q’s when you come because they will compost you if you don’t. 😹
We got there late, and the little tea room was closed . . .
but the tea room window was darling . . .
And this one, too, someone’s kitty has a wonderful view when he dines . . .
So worth the walk, and oddly, much easier walking up than down. Even if walking a steep road isn’t your cup of tea, no one needs to miss this lovely place where nothing ever changes ~ most of the time Land Rovers are available to take people down and bring them back up.
Because when they say down, they mean business. You can also stay at the bottom, at the Red Lion Hotel, and they will drive you in and out.
So back up the hill we went . . . seagulls crying and swooping over our heads. I tried to take pictures of them, there are two there if you can see ~ it was the best I could do, there were really maybe a dozen of them but they refused to gather together and pose for me. And so off we went, intrepid climbers, looking for a place to have tea so I could write this all down . . .
Then map man has another idea . . .
“You like King Arthur and Camelot and all of that, don’t you?” “Yes,” I say, narrowing my eyes at his oddly innocent question. Could be a trick.
So the next day we went to the inspirational castle ruins of Tintagel (pronounced Tin-TA-jel), with links to the legendary King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Anyone who’s read Mists of Avalon would love to visit this place of magic and myth. Besides the views and the ruins, there is a luv-lee tea room and gift shop too. There is so much to say about this place, but I will save it for the book I’m writing ~ In the photo above, we are about to walk back to the car the long way, and Joe is taking my photo as I am reading the sign that leads to the walk.
Now here I am with the sign saying, “Really?”
Because #1 “Unprotected cliffs and banks” got my attention, especially when I looked at the “path.” ⬇ Hello.⬆
But hey. Okay, let’s go. I’m insane, I fit in.
It did get better as we went along… although I did lag at times.
The views were wonderful, the air was salty and clean and smelled like clothes on the line. We were outside, walking in England, what could be more wonderful?
We met others, this happy couple who we could hear laughing all the way up the hill . . . but no, sadly, we did not think to say, “Can you please take our picture?” We really need to do better at that. 
Wow, get to use it AGAIN! Never before, then twice in one post! What are the chances?
On the way home, needless to say, we had more delicious and calming “tea” here in the tiny Cornish village of Boscastle at the Cobweb Inn which was built before 1600 (as a warehouse, although they say the townspeople could always get a drink there). It’s a place where muddy boots and wet dogs are welcome . . . crowded with local families of all ages. And us. A little bit in awe. We are still new at this.
So now, a few more bits and pieces, you’re almost caught up . . . we bought our first real, English, Hot Cross Buns ever, brought them home and had them this afternoon with milky Earl Grey tea. They were fresh, soft, and sweet, with no frosting on top, but they have a cross. Easter!
I think I’ve shown you this photo before. I’m on the right, my brother Jim is on the left, and Stephen’s in front … all of us are the opposite of thrilled to be sitting with what we can’t help but see as a sort of monster despite the big bow and the eyelashes. Steve is still young enough to cry, Jim is faking his smile but bravely staying on the rayon knee for his mom who just wants a photo, and I am being brave too, as the oldest. We all would prefer to go somewhere else, anywhere else. Easter Bunnies were not really like Santa. I think they finally gave up trying to sell them to the crying babies of the world! But no matter how bad this was for us, I found something that had to be worse.
Talk about brave! These are really good boys! Is this not the worst? I laugh so hard every time I see it! I can’t get over how awful it is! I found it on line a long time ago, and I’ve been saving it for just the right moment to spring it on you! I hope you’re sitting down.
Okay, I’ve dried my eyes. I’m probably just tired, but that bunny strikes my funny bone in a place I can’t seem to get back from! I recognize the humor, it’s my dad, together we would go through a whole box of tissues snorting and laughing at that photo!
SO, snapping myself out of it! Changing the subject, while we were at the Limestone Hotel that first night . . . a miracle of coordination took place.
Off the boat, only one night at the Limestone (this bunny was on their lawn!), and yet, a package arrived there for us that very day! Perfect timing! Waiting for us in our room! And inside were the new cup samples. Eeek! As I was ripping open the boxes, I worried, remembering the first group . . .
. . . and how dark they were ~ I was praying these would be better. That color had been a setback, and approvals took much longer than they should have ~ I expected to approve the samples before we left home, but they didn’t make it in time, so we tried for Florida, and that’s when the dark ones came, and I just couldn’t say okay to them. But look!
Our new samples and they’re just what I hoped . . . And now they’re with us here! We have gifts! 🌸 I’m so relieved!
I wanted to show you . . . so you don’t worry! The color is wonderful, the flowers soft and none of them are black!
Love this sweet handle on the Spring cup.
And the pink butterfly!
And the softer spring colors look gorgeous on the bone china . . . all just splendiferous! Thank you for your forgiveness, I just couldn’t force myself to give you something I only partly liked, at best. They will arrive to the Studio, we hope, the end of April … fingers crossed! We want you to have them for Mother’s Day and will do everything we know how to make that happen. 🌷
Worth waiting for, pansies are perfect for Mother’s Day!
Bottoms all turned out well too. Kellee has put these up in the webstore, so you can see all sides, bottoms, handles, everything, just in cases.
Kitty cup too, Jack in the Box!
Immortalizing my boy.
My darling short one.
Kitty love is right!
Another cheery handle!
And the one that will always remind me of this wonderful adventure . . .
Another fine romance!
Lambs and hedgerows and spring trees and everything …
Yanks on Shore, Look out England! 💞
I have a little Easter present for you 💞. . . a skinny chick bookmark I made before we left . . . just click there, and print it out. I hope you like it! It might make a good Easter-dinner place card. So what are you having? Ham? If you’re having ham, try my Fruit Compote with it … I think it’s in Heart of the Home, or maybe Vineyard Seasons, and it’s SO good!
And don’t forget my lovely cream-cheese and coconut frosted carrot cupcakes! (The recipe is also in the new version of Heart of the Home if you have it.) I’m very far away from most of you right now, but it doesn’t feel that way! And you’re never far from my thoughts. 💞
It’s a most wonderful time of year! Sending love XOXOX Here comes April, we start right off with a full moon! And I’ll just say it now, Rabbit-Rabbit . . . good luck to us all! 👏
Just wonderful!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! ❤️😍
My pleasure, I’m so happy you enjoyed it!
Happy Easter Susan and Joe!
Wonderful that you are enjoying our little bit of heaven in North Cornwall. Lovely post, recognise everywhere you’ve travelled so far! So cold this morning, but I’m sure having your friend stay, will warm you up considerably!
Enjoy your Easter weekend, and I look forward to seeing where you venture this coming week. I have it on good authority you will have sunshine everyday!
Gill North Devon U.K.
I think I answered this already, probably printed it twice, but just in cases, HI GILL! Have a wonderful day! xoxo
Aloha Susan & Joe.
Thanks so much for all the scrumptious pictures. I stayed up to make sure I could be close to the top.
Wow! I can’t believe all the wonderful places in England & to think your/our trip has just begun. It was a toasty day today. About 87°. Thought of you with your warm clothes & scarves. Your a peach for lugging us all along with you and so glad you did.
Making my lambsie cake on Saturday. White cake, covered in coconut on a bed of green coconut. Well Blessings to you this Easter Sunday and again thanks for everything you do to bring so much joy to us gals.
🐰❤️🐣 🐇🐑 Georgia
I love lugging you. You are light as feathers! Blessings to you and yours Georgia! Alo-HA-HA as my dad would say!
What a lovely surprise your new post is. My little kitty Miss Daisy decided she was hungry (it’s 4:00 am here in Toronto) so after I fed her decided to check for a new post and there it was. She is settled on my lap and we have both enjoyed your first week in England. Happy Easter my friends. Two of my best friends fly to London on Tuesday so I will have their adventures to follow, too. I gave them each a journal with strict instructions to record everything. Point form is discouraged. Hugs, Elaine
It’s a magical connected world isn’t it Elaine. Have a wonderful day!
Welcome to England, Susan! Hope you are enjoying Cornwall. We had our honeymoon in Boscastle. If you are going further down south, Sennen Cove and the Minack outdoor Theatre are not to be missed. Really loved the post. Enjoyed it over my breakfast of hot cross bun and earl grey tea!😄 xx
Love from Hala br. Bath
What a charming place for a honeymoon! We tried to find something to see at the Minack Theatre, but we’re too early … going there anyway to see the view! Thank you for advice! XOXOXO
By the way – sorry the weather is pants again! Winter keeps marching back in the room to say , ‘And another thing!’. Hope Spring isn’t on its way soon!! Xxx
Pants?
Goon morning Susan and Joe, Happy Easter!
So glad you are enjoying our little part of England. I recognise everywhere you’ve been so far, and look forward to seeing where your travels take you next.
Very cold this morning, but I’m sure your friend arriving will warm you up considerably. So glad you’ve had glimpses of the sun this week, it makes all the difference…..primroses in the banks, lambs,birdsong,….love our Englush springtime.
Enjoy this Easter weekend, and I have it on good authority the sun will shine everyday for you!
Gill N. Devon U.K.
It’s been cold but we packed for it! And looking at the weather this morning, there was a dividing line between rain and sun that seemed to go right over the top of our house! Thank you Gill, YOU make the perfect weather person! Your part of the world is amazing. We are loving every moment!
I thought I would check one more time before bed to see if the blog was up…and now I’m so jazzed I won’t be able to sleep! So many wonderful things, but that bunny! (Wiping eyes.) I guess I share your dad’s humor 🙂 What a wonderful trip and it hasn’t even been a week…has it?! Can not WAIT until the book comes out. Safe travels and happy trails! ♥
I’m glad to hear it (about the bunny) . . . I can’t look at that thing without bursting into laughter! xoxo
Happy Easter🐣🐥🐣 to you Susan & Joe,
Your twitter postings have been so much fun to read. Thank you for your wonderful entries and lovely, enchanting photos from all the quaint places you have visited so far. You inspired me to go out today and take photos of all the beautiful Spring blooms in our neck of the woods…wonderful tulips, daffodils and pansies. 🌷🌷🌷
I hope the adventure in the UK is sweeter with each new day.
Best to you,
Kelly
I think it will be. Yes, so much beauty around all of us if we take the time to peek. Drive a new road today … go a different way to wherever you have to go! xoxo
Years ago I coordinated adult continuing education classes in architecture and interior design at UCLA. One of the visiting designers who taught a three day seminar started the seminar by talking about the beauty surrounding all of us each and every day. He suggested to the students to take a different path each and every day, just as you did here. Those words never left me and I do this each time I have the opportunity to do so. You reminded me of that wonderfully insightful moment with your reply. Thank you Susan.
Happy Easter ! 🐣
Inspiration is a wonderful thing!🌸
Happy Easter & enjoy your Easter Sunday roast. Yum. Next Sunday a Welsh Sunday Roast. 😊 xxxooo
Thank you dear . . . it won’t be long now!!!
..’so ready to venture into Wales !!!..’can’t contain my excitement !!! ..thank you for this lovely post and a blessed Easter to all ..with love, as always…..
Good morning Sue (& girlfriends!) and how wonderful to say that I’m not too far away from you for a few months – and will be seeing you pretty often (not often enough!) How lovely to see these photos and hear of your ‘doings’! Happy Good Friday xoxo
I wish we were 12 (course you wouldn’t be born, but perhaps I will make us twins in this dream) and we lived with our mom, that way we could hang out all the time! This two-country thing is a LOT of trouble! Hugs honey, have a wonderful day!
Happy Good Friday to you too Rachel!~~~waving from across the pond near the Outer Banks of Norh Carolina
Margot
PS. You’re looking good.
Welcome to England Susan and Joe and a Happy Easter to you. Good to have you both back on our soil again and I hope you will be blessed with some fine Spring weather during your stay, although Winter seems a little reluctant to leave us this year. Thank you for such a lovely long post and it’s great to see what you have been up to since you arrived. Love seeing our country through your eyes. Makes me appreciate it all the more and, yes, maybe we are slightly more eccentric than I thought. Stay warm, have fun and enjoy!
With love from Ann in Chester xx
Yes, you are a piece of work of the most wonderful kind! You should read your newspapers through our eyes sometime and see how truly adorable you are! And what you did during WW2 was so amazing. I have so much respect for the hard working people of this beautiful country who have not torn down their past and replaced it with cold newness. Thank you for having us!
Hello Susan,
Happy Easter to you and Joe. I sure looks like you are having a wonderful time, in lovely Cornwall!
Did you know that the series “Doc Martin” is filmed not far from where you are, in Port Isaac?? Tiny, pretty village!
You mentioned going to Minack theater, and you will LOVE the views of the gorgeous blue ocean….!
And if you are in the area of Lizard Point, they have a lovely place to eat, called
“The most southerly cafe”, and they serve a delicous breakfast, cream teas….And there is an outdoor terrace, overlooking the ocean…..Plus, there are lots of paths to take walks….
And don’t forget St Ives, another pretty village…Plus there are so many wonderful National Trust properties, our favorite is near Bodmin, called Lanhydrock house. It has lots of rooms to see, both “upstairs”, and “downstairs”….and a great tearoom!
I could go on and one…..So much to see.
I hope you have a lovely time, and we’re looking forward to the picnic!!
Love from Holland
Nicoline
Got it all Nicoline! See you soon!
It’s all wonderful!
Thank you for taking us all along!
Happy Easter!!
Can’t wait for next post ( I can order cups today!!)
Stay safe.
I do hope you visited Dudley Door and Stair Hole down at Lulworth, all part of the fantastic Jurassic Coastline.
loved this!! another book which features Tintagel is called The Child from the Sea (Elizabeth Goudge). I have it and read it a few times, and also have Mists of Avalon more times, however. loved them both! Such a beautiful country.
Ah so lovely. I feel like I am moving while standing still too, after living on Arnie’s boat for a month now. I need a sign like the composting one, as the Summer people always cut through my woods. They do have their own trail… My favorite icon in that beautiful stained glass church window. We are lost sheep……Don’t fall off the cliff!
oxox
Margot
Good morning! What a lovely blog post…chock full of serendipity! I’m happy the second batch of mug samples turned out as planned, my preorder has been in for a while and I look forward to receiving them. Hubby and I are driving to WV today to spend Easter with my mom and his sisters and their families. So excited for that, but wifi connectivity can be a bit iffy down there. Sometimes I think that’s a good thing, but I’ll catch up with your adventures when we get back next weekend! Happy Easter!!
What a treat to read and enjoy. A huge effort when you are on holiday. Thank you Susan.xxx
Having my coffee and a little trip too. Wonderful to wake this morning to a new post. Glad you are sharing this with all of us. Thank you. Happy Easter.
Your pictures and commentary are so much fun and capture all the quaintness that I associate with the English countryside…thanks!
Have you read Ron Chernow’s book on Hamilton? If you are enjoying Washington, you will love this one also . It too is long, but well worth the reading. I believe the Broadway show Hamilton was based on the book and Mr. Chernow served as an advisor. What a wonderful writer he is!!
Thank you, Susan, for taking us along with you on your beautiful English journey. Absolutely love this post! And, once I have completed this comment, I am going straight to your online store to pre-order the Mother’s Day Cup. ALL of your cups are wonderful…love them ALL. However, finances permit me to order only one so I have decided on the Mother’s Day Cup for my Mother-in- Law. She is a dear woman, turning an active 95 next month. Love her to pieces…and she will cherish the cup. Thank you, Susan, for EVERYTHING!!! (P.S. We still have tons of snow on the ground here in Wisconsin’s Northwoods…so enjoy your green!!)
See how you are? Maybe not for you, but for someone you love. Kindred spirits once again. Sending love!
Thank you Susan for taking me to England this morning!! I have sat here on my couch and devoured every word and picture!! Love, love, love reading your posts. 💕💕 Have fun and thanks for letting me tag along.
This is by far my most favorite blog post of yours-ever!❣️🏡 I just love the cozy little villages of coastal England, pubs, tea houses and all.🙌 This is a trip I could see my husband and I doing, just like you and your Joe. We have so many similarities, in fact my David even looks a bit like your Joe-same age, height, complexion, hair and beard. Anyway, such a cosy cosy trip! I adore it all. Pleasant England 🏴 dreams and adventures, Susan!❣️
P.S. I just love the little tearoom window pictures, the window picture of where the kitty eats, and the lace curtained windows!🙌🏡 Happy Easter!🐇🐰
Ahhhh – such a lovely post this early Good Friday morn. I’ve loved every word, description, picture. I just have to comment on the scariest, most “alien” Easter bunny which must have ever existed! Should I laugh or cry of fright? YIKES! HAPPY EASTER dear Sue. Wishing you much happiness on your most amazing adventures.
I’m so excited to go along with you, Joe and friends on your trip! I watched Miss Potter this morning in your honor! When life gets tough, I come to your blog to remember the importance of the little joys in life!
You just made my day, Kat. xoxoxoxo
Thank you! Wishing you and Joe a Happy Easter!
Hi Sue – What a lovely post. Thanks so much for sharing your trip, I am enjoying vicarious travel (enhanced by musica)! Happy Easter to you and Joe.
Vera Lynn said it best on your “musica”….”What a Wonderful World” and thank you for sharing your marvelous trip with us. Happy, happy Easter to you and Joe!
Huff! Pant! Gasp! I can’t talk long because I’m still out of breathe trying to catch up with you on those Clovelly hills! Should have been in better shape for this trip, Susan, but I’m oh so grateful to get to go with you and Joe! Thank you for the beautiful post and Happy Easter to you, Joe and all the GFs!
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Oh my gosh, I’m having so much fun traveling with you in England – thanks for taking us along! I love the Oscar Levant quote – that’s going to become my new mantra – lol. And that bunny – I’m surprised your brothers didn’t have nightmares for weeks! (I know I will!)
Loving your tweets on Twitter! xoxo
Thank you sooooo for this! Everything…..the pictures, the descriptions, the humor….for someone who LOVES ❤️❤️❤️ England🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧~me! ~ it is so very satisfying and more than pleasant to read. Like a deep, deep joyful sigh. We miss knowing that you are on our Island but are so very thrilled to follow along with you on that other magical Island!😘☺️😘
Happy Easter and Spring! 👒🐥🌷🌼🌸🎨🏡💚💕
SO happy you’re enjoying it Pam, it’s a thrill to send this home! Love having you “with us!”
What a wonderful post! Your excitement and enthusiasm is so infectious. Thank you for sharing. I find myself bursting out laughing at times and tearful the next. I love seeing everything through your eyes. You find joy and magic in everything. The lambs, the green hillsides, the rock walls, the primrose growing in the rock walls (be still my heart), the Beatrix Potter menus, Pure serendipity. I’m not sure if you find the magic, make the magic or the magic finds you, but it’s all wonderful. You are a joy magnet.
I had just taken a sip of my coffee when i scrolled to that bunny pic….I laughed so hard that the coffee came out of my nose and i dribbled all over my pjs!!!
The mugs are so so pretty and the colors a beautiful. It’s good that you held out for what you wanted. I’m gonna hint loudly to my kids that i would love one for mother’s day ; )
It’s a dreary rainy Good Friday here. My daughter is home on spring break from her teaching job. We were going to bake all day but we have decided to go dress shopping for a MOB (mother of the bride) dress for me instead. Kind of dreading it cuz I wanted to loose a little more weight before I started trying them on but we are getting close to the date (July 28th).
Thanks again for sharing and Happy Easter to you and Joe!
Oh my goodness!!! Your post is such a joy!!! Thank you for taking us along on the journey. It’s been 3 years since I was in the UK and I’m dying to go again but my husband wants to travel the world….and I want to hike in the UK on all the wee trails from village to village. Ah me, ah my…….need to find a traveling girlfriend…. Thank you for all this, simple wonderful….
Susan,
You were near where my great-grandmother and all her ancestors were born, going back to the era of William the Conqueror — the Wadebridge/Bodmin area. Wish I could be there with you personally to see it all. But what fun it is traveling along with you via blog and Twitter!
A most Happy Easter to you and Joe, and I hope warmer, sunny weather will be coming for you soon.
Ann
Hi Susan, I am hanging on every word /picture you send. Wondering if you could take us inside a small grocery store??? Just made your carrot cake cupcakes yesterday,
Delicious! Will you be meeting up with Carrieinwales?
I’ll do a video in our favorite grocery store! Yes, Seeing Carrie in Wales, in Wales! And her new house!
I have to admit I was a little worried. A Fine Romance was such a terrific, amazing, magic adventure and I wasn’t sure this trip could live up to the expectations. I am already in awe and excited and overwhelmed with the beauty, your words, your pictures, the food, the tea (did I mention the food and the tea?). Thank you so much for taking us along on this trip of a lifetime!
And soon, Wales! And then Ireland! And our Picnic! And that just gets us to the half way mark! Thank you Maryellen! xoxo
My friends and I were waiting, waiting, waiting for your first post from England and it was so worth the wait. Read fast once and then read again at a more leisurely pace. Ah!!!! So wonderful!
Oh my goodness. I can barely handle this post. SO much beauty! Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing. Pulling A Fine Romance off my shelf today! <3
The best Easter trip ever! Glenn and I loved being along on your adventure – keeping notes for a future England road trip. You are the best travel guide, Susan! We are invigorated and charmed completely. So thankful you take the time to write this even between the line of genius and insanity! Great laughs. Joyous Easter!
Sigh. Happy sigh. BIG happy sigh.
I can’t travel far afield (physical and financial reasons), so being able to go on this trip with you fills my heart with joy. I think I might just have to move to Clovelly — it is charming. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. It is a pleasure to come along for the ride.
Happy Easter to you all.
I have been following you on Twitter. While those tweets are so fun, your blog is wonderful as well. It all looks like such fun. I hope the weather improves for you and warms a bit.
That picture you posted of that awful Easter Bunny was hilariously frightening. Yes, I howled with laughter too.
I love bunnies all year. 🐇 They are so soft and cuddly. You will need to see the movie “Peter Rabbit.” I would like to see how they made those rabbits look so adorable. Those bunnies were mischievous and sweet.
Your British girlfriends Have been tweeting so many lamb pictures. I am enjoying them.🐏🐑🐏
Have a happy Easter, British style. 🐇🐦🌻Thank you for sharing your eventful days with all of us. Love to you and Joe. 🐣🐥🐑🐏
Need to add one more thing…or maybe two…
The lace curtains! I have them on my windows and I never cared if they are in or out of style. I love the look and charm of them. The ones you pictures are sublime.
Thank you for the perfect cups. Each is so delicately rich in detail. I cannot wait until June arrives.
I truly admire Joe’s driving ability in the UK.
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Happy Easter!
Loved your post. My friends and I are leaving for England this coming Tuesday. I can’t wait. Your post gives me a taste of adventures to come.
Enjoy your trip and I look forward to reading more.
I always enjoy traveling vicariously with you. However, I am always amazed at how much luggage you bring.
Couldn’t stop laughing- Happy Easter, dear Susan. xo
Lovely to know you are on British soil! I am already looking forward to the book of your wonderful trip, especially as i think you are cominh to Scotland this time? (If in Argyll look for Kilchurn Castle at the head of Loch Awe, a magical place, if going further north let me know and I have other recommendations! ) Enjoy every minute X,
So pleased to read your blog and to know you are safe and sound in England! We are so looking forward to meeting up with you again in The Lake District, and are counting down the days. Not so long now!
I am smitten with the village that has lace curtains and kitties. When can I apply for citizenship? Looking forward to following this visit to Great Britain. 🙂
Can I just say how very much I love you, Susan Branch!!! I’ve been a fan since your early “Heart of the Home” days, and was thrilled to rediscover, after all these years, your three recent books and this blog. Is it possible to both devour and savor books at the same time? Well, that’s exactly what I did. Thank you for taking us all on this journey with you . . . I’m loving it vicariously!
Thanks so much for sharing your adventure with us all! A great way to start my morning. Looking forward to all your updates and makes us feel like we are with you. Wish you both Happy Easter and safe travels💕🌷🍀
HAPPY EASTER JOE & SUSAN……Oh how I have enjoyed going along with you on your wonderful trip! The photos, as well as your narratives, are incredible, but have made me so homesick. But thankful you share it all with us……..looking forward to your next post – Enjoy each day (I KNOW you will!) and DRIVE CAREFULLY – those narrow lanes can be most tricky!
P.S. Enjoy your Sunday Roast…..mmmmmm!
Beautiful, so amazingly beautiful. I do love that you take us along Susan, but to be there & breathe the air. What a dream! I can’t wait for the book. It will be scrumptious, I know. Happy adventures to you and Joe. Safe “wrong” side of the road driving! Lol.
Fabulous….just fabulous! So thrilled for you…thank you for sharing it with us. And…this morning at the breakfast in our apartment the baked treat was….Hot Cross Buns! I was singing Hot Cross Buns, Hot Cross Buns, one a penny, two a penny….etc. So, when I finally got to sit down and read this post I thought…WOW, Susan got REAl , ENLISH, Hot Cross Buns !!!
Oh, what a wonderful breakfast I’ve just had with you and Joe. Po’ Mr. Tom was trying to read the sports section….I kept this up, “Ooo, Ooo, TOM, listen to this”, whereupon I read to him from this bestest of posts. He finally smiled, and took his hearing aids out. I do know he will enjoy all of this, as we Anglophile Yanks are all charmed almost to pieces by all things English.
One of my very first travel books on England was Ruth McKinney, This England, or something close. I’ll look it up and post later. That book set the course of my life, well, maybe my later life. When I made my first visit, a month long craziness of driving almost every day in the tiniest car, cooking stew in lay-by’s over a can of sterno for lunch and living on pub food (awful back in 1977), I was young and a struggling teacher…, researching a paper on comparison of the Arthurian legends and the real Dux Bellum, and it morphed into Arthur becoming a sort of Christ figure, a la CS Lewis’s Perilandra trilogy. But I kept saying out loud, “Oh Look! England!” as I looked out the car window, or the windows of a tea room. This is in Ruth’s book. She is riding on a local bus through the Kentish country side, and gasps, “Oh Look, England!” And the England is printed in “Old English Text”. So, naturally, I still say that on all the trips!!!! And the Brits, being used to us by now, just chuckle!
I won’t comment on all the wonderful things I wish I could talk to you about, but I’d so very much love it you and Joe would come down to our patch of Maine. The dear “Down East” accent is so very familiar to us from England visits. We have a great, lovely loft bedroom with a ginormous picture window, and your very own clawfoot tub with windows looking out at the sky and trees, a huge screened porch facing the bay, looking through the giant trees, plus a lovely deck. There is a bedroom and a bath with a walk in shower downstairs for the men. We’ll be in touch. Maybe in September or October? Lobster right off the boat is a promise, if not an enticement. I know you must be pestered all the time to visit this or that girlfriend.
Thank you sooooo much for this! It almost makes up for having to cancel our trip that was booked for the month of May!
Oh, one trip I stayed a couple of nights in Mousehole (mouzel) right up the steep hill from the old Lobster Pot Inn. Of course I had lobster and strawberries and clotted cream. You help me revel in these memories. Mousehole is near St. Michael’s Mt.
Love and Safe Travels, dear faces,
Debbie and Tom
Beautiful ! I enjoyed every word . Thank you for taking me along on your journey .
Have a wonderful Easter weekend !
Cheers !
Your post was a lovely break from cleaning and preparing to host 22 tomorrow for a pre-Easter brunch. Just immediate family, minus seven who live too far away or on trips elsewhere. Happy to have three little ones to see the magic of spring and Easter through their eyes.
Lily (16) and I just finished “Set in Silver” this week, a book that combines travel in England with romance that I’ve recommended to you before. (I’m terrible about glancing back at the comments to see if you’ve ever read it.) So it has been fun for us to see references to Clovelly and Tintagel here. She let me read it aloud to her….what a joy to have a teen who is willing to spend that kind of time with her mama!
Thank you for taking the time to give so many of us joy…it feeds our souls and nudges us toward our better selves. And you’re right about that creepy bunny–too funny!!!
Anne in Maine – Thank you, thank you! Just what I needed to see today. Looking out my window it’s very dreary and rainy. But that’s okay. It’s making our huge mounds of snow disappear. So happy you had a wonderful trip over. And it certainly looks like you’re off to a great start. Can’t wait to follow along with you. Happy Easter!!!
P.S. Hi Darlene. Happy Easter!
Hi Anne and Susan, Happy Easter to you and everyone here! ~Darlene~
Thanks for taking us on this journey with you! I have a friend in England who came for a visit last year and hope to visit her there someday. The cups are amazing!
Oh me! I am SO very glad you are writing a book about this wonderful trip ~ otherwise I would have to print and bind the Blog and Twitter posts. As it is, I keep returning to both the Blog and Twitter to re-read and re-travel with you. Cannot thank you enough for all the photos and stories shared. Hugs to Rachel and Siobhan, and a proper English handshake to Paul, for letting us be included in their visits with you. OK, I have to go back now and re-read again. xoxoxo
Love, love, love!!! Happy Easter!!
Love love love the post. Enjoy each other and the wonderful memories…”O to be in England, now that April’s here”. Living the dream, surely. God bless your sojourn and God bless you both. From Indiana. Happy Easter!
He is Risen!
Aaww! My gosh! What a luv-lee-iest time you all are having there in the romantic England.
All so frolicky and charming and endearing and enchanting. I think your souls will be
thoroughly nourished of all the interesting and sumptuous breakfasts, tasty tea treats, quaint winding down hills, vintage castles and clothes, aww! My you are a gorgeous author that takes your readers to far-far away lands of nostalgia that we can purely experienced through your pictures and gracious words. Have a so wonderful trip dear Susan 😍😘 Love youuuu!!
Happy Easter from Texas! Each day I look forward to your posts on twitter, thank you for taking us along on your journey. I’m working on my Shutterfly book from our trip last year to the Cotswolds, and your posts give me inspiration! As much as I love travel, I just want to go back to England, again and again. 💋
So enjoyed your writings, art, and photos!! I, too, have brothers Jim and Stephen! On your journey will you be going North to St. Ives and Fenstanton near Cambridge? My ancestors are from that area and my sister and I will be traveling there in May. I am getting more and more excited about our exploration as I read your blog!
Love all of it! (Why is it I always picture you writing and drawing at your desk on the island? Especially when I know you’re in England!😄). Anyway, just so cool to see everything and walk through the villages and all of it. (Swooning). The food looks delish! It’s such an appropriate time for me to be reading “A Fine Romance”! I feel like I’m getting an even brighter picture of everything!
Love, love, love your post!! If you have a chance, try and visit the “Hidden Gardens of Heligan” while in Cornwall. It is one of my all time favorite places. You could easily spend a whole day there. The history is fascinating.
Your two bunnies from the past are just too funny…I couldn’t stop laughing at the “bunny from outer space”. Have a wonderful Easter!!
I promised myself I wasn’t going to look at this until I got my letter of the day written . . . I’d just skim the photos! That wasn’t remotely possible! Pulled in and couldn’t stop. So if I don’t get my letter written today it’s your fault!! 🙂 Just kidding, of course!! It was worth every minute! Just absolutely, completely, perfectly delightful! You have hit all the right notes, and all the charm of the English countryside just oozes from every photo and comment! And from a personal perspective, it has been such fun viewing a place where a friend of ours, I know rambles around. Those people are tough cookies that live on those hills! You and Joe are, too! What great exercise!! Thank you so much for all of it. And a most happy and joyous Easter. Can’t wait to hear about the “Sunday Roast”!! 🙂
Thank you for the wonderful trip-a-long. It looks divine from here and there.
Happy Easter!
I always love to see England through your eyes! Enjoy your English Easter and have some more hot cross buns for me! I was so surprised to see them frosted in Florida last week! Try the English ones split, toasted and buttered, with a pot of tea 😊 Did you by chance read my FOSB Facebook comment recommending our favourite b&b, Blackmore Farm Manor House in Somerset? If you have a chance to stop by do tell Ann and Ian “Hello” from Gill in Norway 😉
Happy Easter to you and Joe. Thank you for taking us on such a lovely vacation! What fun to take a break from prep here and tour with you. You know how to make Everybunny smile ❤️
You’re making me so homesick for England. Your mention of Bude reminded me of our stay there at The Tree Inn, parts of which date back to the 13th century. Our room must have been in that old part as the floors were quite sloped so I hooked my arm over the edge of the bed in care I rolled off in the middle of the night. I’m loving every word you write about this lovely country! Thank you for taking me back.
Sue!!!! I am laughing my head off and having the biggest smile the whole time I’m reading about your adventures. It feels like we are bffs and you are writing me a letter. Y’all are so fun and I am right there with you every step of the way.
Thanks for the long, lovely post Sue-your comments about the embroidered kneelers reminded me of wonderful Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint) and the battle over replacing the kneelers in the “Lady Chapel” in Affairs at Thrush Green. If you haven’t read these books (also the Fairacre Series) you simply must! Have a wonderful trip and thanks for keeping us in the loop.
Thank you for tagging us along with you. Most delightful. Have been to everyone of those little towns and villages and would love to see them all over again.
Wonderful post on so many levels; love your descriptions, the illustrations, the photos. Just how I’ve imagined the Cornish coast. Congrats on being in great shape to be able to do these unusually-steep walks which might be intimidating to someone even half your/our age. I love the spring lambs in the fields; can’t wait for my cups because you paint them with love of subject. Happy Easter to you & Joe.
Dear Susan, I am so glad you had smooth, and it sounded like restful, sailing to England. I look forward every day to reading everything you write about “our” trip. I am so thrilled for both of you to be able to share this adventure together. And for all of the rest of us to be able to share your adventure with you is “the icing on the cake”! Having been to England a few times, your words and photos are bringing back many wonderful memories. Enjoy every moment! 🙂
Wishing you a Happy Easter, and stay safe. Ruthie
So many beautiful pictures! Allows the dreams to flow.
Hi Susan( Joe)
What a lovely blog…so glad I can travel around beautiful England again through your eyes!
Those hills would kill me… Not good at climbing them at all. The curtains on door 12 look like the ones I bought at Country Curtains a few years ago … in my bathroom… called
Song Bird… birds, butterflies, dragonflies…I love the pattern that shows on the wall when sun shining through them. Wish you would sell curtains… I know the quality would be great just like defunct Country Curtains store.
The second bunny photo is hilarious… Sort of looks like an alien mask not a friendly bunny.
I love looking at old family photos… I have boxes of them.
Thanks for the lovely blog and photos… Have a wonderful English Easter.
Kathie from Limerick
Susan, hope you drive down as far as St. Ives and Zennor. Such wonderful history and scenery! (And scary roads!) But if we could do it, so can you and Joe! Love, love all your
posts…..(the bunny pic is hysterical!). I made my daughter sit on the Easter bunny’s lap but only once! 🐰 Can’t wait for more adventures on the road!
Oh, good grief! Those wabbits belong at Hallowe’en not Easter!
I wonder how hard it was to ignore the warning not to climb on the walls?
My favourite picture? The primrose on the stone wall. Simply and elegant, a quintessential representation of Spring in the British Isles. ~~~waving from Across the Bristol Channel~~~Deb in Wales xoxo
So, I’m at work and I see your e-mail pop up. I really want to read about everything you have for us, but I must wait until I get home so I can see it on our large computer screen. So excited
Oh I’m so in love. I do want to go, it’s lovely, everything imaginable. Thanks for the photojournal, next best thing to being there
If you get a chance to visit Falmouth, check out the Greenbank Hotel. Wind in the Willows was written there. Charming hotel right on the water. Here is a link to an article I wrote about our visit there. wordpress.com/view/culinarywandering.wordpress.com
I also had written to you on the last post I guess about the Minack Theatre and Sennen Cove. I lived in the old school in Sennen one summer while doing theatre at the Minack. Do hope you go. They have a not of school programs too so you should be able to see something. they just started their season this past week or so.
You really need to learn how to pack fewer things!! I could not believe all that luggage. I guess on a ship there is no limit to what you can take!! But, after all the traveling you have done, I would think by now you’d be able to travel with not as much!! I took less when I moved to Israel…Unless you have all sorts of valises full of books to sell!
First time we moved to England we went to the grocery store to load up with all sorts of stuff. We got through the check out and the items were still on the counter and the cashier looked at us and we looked at her. No one had told us to being boxes or bags etc to put the food in. Somehow we got it all home but were surprised with no bags for us…That was funny. Live and learn.
Have a great visit.
Hello Susan,
Yesterday I had tea with a friend at The Talking Teacup in Chalfont, PA.
My friend’s daughter is in Ireland with her boyfriend who has a fellowship at University College Dublin. I said “Do you have any pictures ?” She showed me photos and of course one of them was the young couple on a cliff followed by the “falling off a cliff” sign! I cannot believe I saw this silly sign twice in two days.
If you are ever in Philadelphia, let us know we will take you to tea at The Talking Teacup. It is your kind of place and we are two Victorias, ‘nough said.
Enjoy your trip!
Victoria
Susan!
Squeeeeeee!!!!! I’m swooning!!!!
LUV IT!
Linda
Hi,Susan! Can you hear me laughing in NorthernCA? That Easter Bunny photo is the best I’ve ever seen,(and I don’t mean the cute one of you!) Thanks for taking us along once again,Loving it all! xo annette
Your blog was a welcome respite from a rough day! Magical, fairytale-like; it is SO nice to be a spectator of yet another one of your adventures. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Wonderful!! Full of English countryside! We were in Cornwall and Devon 2 years ago, it can’t really have been that long! Our favorite name was Mousehole! pronounced mozul! Right on the edge of the sea! we stayed in Penzance just down the road! Have a wonderful adventure!
Omg, you were right about that rabbit. It was funny but also very odd and scary! Those boys were very brave. Love the photo’s and looks like you both are really enjoying your adventure. Are you planning on bringing home some beautiful yarn for knitting some scarves? I can’t imagine not with all the cute, wonderful sheep!! Lots of new scarves or sweaters for gifts. Lots of great pics and food, sounds grand! Looking forward to getting my new cups, they are adorable. Can’t wait for the next chapter, I can feel your excitement through your blog. HAVE FUN!!!!
Hi Susan so glad you are enjoying England. My Mum and Dad had their honeymoon in Clovelly over 70 years ago. Sadly they have both passed now it was lovely to see pictures of Clovelly I have not visited there yet this will be remedied this year. Have you visited Port Isaac ? One of our popular tv shows Dr Marten was filmed there. Well worth a watch
Next week!
Fabulous recap of your travels thus far! Feeling very cozy & eagerly awaiting your next post. I don’t know how you do it all!! Thank you for sharing all these charming towns with us!
Have fun!
Susan, in 1996 my husband, Chuck, and I spent a month in wonderful England and Scotland. Looking at your pictures brings back so many lovely memories of that trip. We had been warned about the walk down the hill to darling Clovelly, so for a few weeks before we left for England I walked up and down a steep hill in our home town to prepare my lazy legs. I’m happy to say I made it all the way down to the end of that cobblestone walk, that stopped at the ocean, without even a moan. We loved the darling cottages, yes with lace curtains and sea shells attached to the walls. I’m looking forward to the rest of your trip. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for your lovely blog! I am so happy for the two of you, to be able to spend time in wonderful England. Enjoy yourself and when you have time, share some fun with us all!
What a Luv-lee post. When we drove in Ireland, we followed the trucks. You are spot on. Stay safe (that walk even had me a bit nervous), but it was so beautiful at the top. Happy Easter! Thanks for sharing your trip. I love the mugs! Those pansies have captured my heart (and the cat, books, countryside, etc). Keep having fun!
Will you be visiting Port Isaac? Please, and thank you!
I feel like on the trip with you! How lovely the places you shared. Love the new cups too!
Hi Susan and Joe! It’s very clear you are happy and having a great time cause you’re gushing! I’m happy that you’re happy! Wish I could be there physically, but because of your generosity this is the next best thing. And of a course having a book to look forward to! Yay! Love.
Yay, first post from England! Had to read it as soon as it came. I love the menus in the Beatrix Potter books, just perfect. On our last trip, we stayed in Lyme Regis for a few days. I think vehicles were allowed in town but it was all up and down just like Clovelly. Our hotel was up so after a day our legs were in great shape because everything else was down. The French Lieutenant’s Woman was filmed there.
Can’t wait for the next post. I thinking getting lost in England is the most fun so, Happy Getting Lost!
Happy Easter, Susan and Joe !
My hubby Graham had to know why I was laughing and snorting (it was that creepy strange Easter bunny photo)!
Enjoy the many blessings of your trip. We are enjoying those you grace us with along the way!
Patti (and Graham, whose mum was born in England, an English war bride)