Cornwall

On Good Friday Will & I set of for 4 nights camping in Cornwall. We found a lovely camp site just 10 minutes walk out of Padstow, which is a little fishing village on the North Cornish coast. Padstow is known for being the stomping ground of Rick Stein, one of the UK's celebrity chefs. He has several restaurants and delis in the area. We couldn't afford to eat at his famous seafood restaurant (plus it was booked out all week) but we did have his fish & chips, which were divine. A lot of Saturday was spent lazing around in the glorious sunshine, it really was unseasonably warm for the UK at this time of the year! Later that afternoon we went for a drive along the coastal road towards Newquay, stopping at a couple of the bays to chill out, check out the surfers, & enjoy the sunset... On Sunday we were off to the Eden Project, www.edenproject.com. For those that haven't heard of it, it is quite difficult to describe. They have basically taken over an old quarry & built a couple of huge biomes. In one of the biomes they have created a tropical rain forest, & the other one is a temperate zone. The tropical biome was really hot & humid, an early taste of what it is going to be like trekking in Borneo next summer on my school trip! Being spring, they had a 'bulbmania' exhibition on which really was spectacular.

Monday was also very relaxed. After a lazy morning we went for bit of a wander along the South West Coastal Path. We found a nice grassy spot to read the newspaper & listen to NZ beat Ireland in the cricket on Will's portable radio.

We got back on Tuesday in time for me to play touch rugby that evening. Yesterday I had a great day in the garden, before rugby training that night. We have our last competition game for the season on Sunday against Wimbledon, but also have a 10's tournament on 29th May. I'm already looking forward to summer, with the weather we've been having lately it feels like it is well on its way... We have tickets to a couple of festivals this summer; Late June we are going to 'Hyde Park Calling' where Crowded House are playing, then near the end of August we are going to the Friday & Saturday of the Reading festival. Razorlight are headlining the Friday, & Red Hot Chili peppers on the Saturday. We've also got the Reading beer festival at the start of May. Over the last couple of weeks a group from school has been doing the 'Real Ale Trail' which basically involves visiting 12 local pubs & getting a sticker from each one. If you complete it you get free VIP entry to the festival. The big advantage is that you don't have to queue, we tried to go last year but the queue was 3 hours, so we gave up & did a pub crawl in town instead!

Not much holiday left for me... We've got a teachers only afternoon on Monday, then it's all go from Tuesday. The good news is, the next term is unbelievably short & we break up for summer on 28th June!