An expensive Eden

Woke this morning to a strange noise which turned out to be two electrical lines hitting each other and arcing. Although pretty like fireworks this was slightly worrying so Chris rang the electric board. Within 2 hours a guy was here fixing it. So we set off for the Eden Project.

At £45 to get in this was not cheap, but it was somewhere I had been wanting to visit since it was built. Set in an old quarry it is a great sight and the amount of gardening work is impressive.

Loved the works of art and the impressive domes. The rainforest biome was the highlight. With a temperature of 29°c, the plants were incredible.

Plus there were these very tame little birds who were beautiful colours.

An incredible waterfall actually cooled you off at the top of the dome.

We had a very tasty lunch, then visited the rest of the project.

All in all an amazing place, but far too expensive, especially at this time of year when parts of the domes were closed for expansion works and a lot of the plants outside were not growing.

Talking, walking and moving cars.

Today we met Karen and Jon at Falmouth. When we arrived it was sunny but when they turned up it started to rain so we headed for a coffee shop next to the harbour.

We had three hours at this parking, so once it stopped raining walked towards the shops. Found nice second hand book shop, and then met up with Rachel for lunch at 'The Grapes Alehouse'. 

Time just flew by and we had to move the cars to another car park. Strolled along the pier and looked longingly at Johnny Depp's house, but could not see him. 

Walked up to the house that Karen and Jon are trying to buy. Back down the hill to meet Rob and into a great pub called 'Beerwolf Books'. Yepp, a pub and a bookshop in one. The poor dog was worn out.

As the sun went down we drove over to Pendennis Point and Gyllyngvase Beach. Both really pretty.
Back to the original car park and we had dinner at a Weatherspoons called 'The Packet Station'.