Piss in Boots

Pembroke & Cornwall, 22-25th August 2008.



The trip started well on Thursday, when Major Tom warned us that South Wales (ie. Pembroke) was under water. A few phonecalls and a social later and we were on the way back to Trewellard Campsite, Cornwall, twinned in May with a Sarajevo refugee camp. Stopping only for gourmet chips & kebab on the pavement of a small village outside Bristol, we arrived at the usual spot, pitched our new homes and annoyed the locals, until beds were made and slept in.

The morning started with a rude awakening, but only improved from then, as we packed our bags and headed for Sennen. Having agreed with the walkers to meet in the pub, they were free to walk the Cornish landscape, taking in the Carn Brae 'mountain'. While the rest watched the waves breaking on the coast and did some climbing occasionally too. The old Success having played host to us and the olympics for a while, we depated for the barbeque spot to escape the space/time continuum, as well as the heavy drizzle. A hasty burger or two later and back to a pub we went, where four presidents gathered and discussed stealing a dog. Promising to return the following evening for live music, we left to bed.

It was definitely 8.30 weather in the morning but it rained just long enough for us to arrive at Bosigarn Castle in brilliant sunshine and blistering heat. It seems the walkers had the harder day today, walking along the coast to St. Ives, while the climbers took extreme precautions, calling a helicopter for a diff. Although the danger of being thumped by an army instructor was significantly greater. A few hot showers later, and yesterday's potatoes cunningly disguised in the salad, tea was eaten and beer drunk. The evening was a decidedly loud, alcoholic and violent (must have been the stella glasses) . After a record breakingly late night for two presidents, there was no crying sunshine, but a morning in a tea shop for some and a trip to the seaside for others. Packing up was done was done swiftly in the sun, and we were able to leave with no further incident (apart from the traffic kind).