So Eastyer hols are here, and we thought we would head off to that there Cornwall for a couple of days, as neither of us could really remember being there much before. We decided to base ourselves in Liskeard as they had a Premier Inn there, and we know you get good value there. Probably in hindsight there might have been better places to stay..
Set off nice and early to make sure we made the most of the day. Drive down is M4/M5/A38 and when there is no traffic the roads are great. We made fantastic time, and arrived a fair bit earlier than expected. Checked in early, luckily our room was ready, then walked into Liskeard itself.
The walk in was about a mile, and we strolled round realising that it wasn’t really a very touristy place, and to be honest a bit of a hole.. We had expected something slightly nicer, with some decent pubs – but it all looked in need of a little TLC. Anyway, found one pub that looked okay, as we needed to kill 45 mins before the train, so we had a couple of pints in the “beer garden”, which was a concrete slab behind the pub – but it was sunny, and they had San Miguel.
After spending 5 minutes too long in the pub we walked/ran to the train station to get the train, we got there with about a minute to spare – perfect. So slightly flustered and warm we set off for Plymouth.
Half hour later we got to Plymouth and walked in a straight line from the station to the “Hoe”. The walk down was through a massive open concorse, with shops on the side – very 1970’s, but okay none the less. We got down to the Hoe in around 10 mins, and spent 2 minutes looking at the statue wondering where the bowling game actually took place, then full of education we looked for a pub.
As we walked along the front and passed the Lido, we spotted the Yacht club, non members welcome – so we got a pint and sat out by the sea – it was warm and very pleasant. After a quick beer, we walked round to the harbour front. It had many pubs and restaurants and was really quite a nice place. Luckily for us there were very few people about so we could take our pick of the pubs and tables. Nice. Kate had a bite to eat and we shared some Whitebait at the Ship Inn – which were lovely, and plentiful.
Over to the Aquarium for a quick nose about, expensive and not very impressive. They have a massive tank and that’s about it. I think we spent longer in the gift shop than the place itself!
Another couple of pubs to check out and then back on the train to Liskeard.
We walked back to the hotel via “the forest”, and had some simple but nice (Sharing platter and chips) and the hotel pub and then to bed. Day 1 complete.