Road Trip #1

A March Saturday with no rugby, local, national or international!
Setting aside our disappointment at not being in Rome today Josh and I enjoyed a home cooked breakfast before heading out on a brief tour of West Cornwall. The aim of this ‘tour’ was to allow Josh to build up his photographic portfolio so we made our first stop Carn Brae.
Overlooking both Camborne and Redruth and reaching up to 738 feet above sea level is Carn Brea. The carn can be seen from most high ground in Cornwall and the monument on top easily picked out.
The monument is a 90 foot high granite obelisk, this hexagonal column was erected in 1836 in memory of Francis Bassett, Lord de Dunstaville.

Some two hundred metres from the monument is a further legacy of the Bassett family, Carn Brea Castle, it is suggested that it started out as an Elizabethan hunting lodge - the current form is a Victorian folly and is now a resteraunt.

The next leg of the tour was Mounts Bay which will be the subject of tomorrow’s Blip.

Home, quick couple of beers at the Athenaeum Club before picking up a Chinese chuck out for dinner at home for the three of us.