Day 5 - Port Isaac to Dorchester 2/06/05
After leaving Port Isaac we headed to Cornwall to sample the famous Cornish pasties. We chose the lovely seaside fishing town of Padstow, which should be known as Rick Steinville. Rick Stein of BBC’s Food Heroes programme has a restaurant, cooking school, seafood shop, food condiment shop etc in Padstow.
We tried the Cornish pasties - absolutely disgusting, no meat, all onion and liquid gravy. I also tried the Cornish clotted cream fudge, but reneged on the Cornish clotted-cream scones and Cornish icecream.
We drove further south to Lands End driving through the famous towns of Penzance (as in the pirates) and St Ives (the man with seven wives). The point of going to Lands End was to touch the southern most point of Britain. This never happened as we were too tight to pay the £3 parking fee and then walk miles in the cold blustery rain.
In a hurry to get out of the bad weather we headed north-east to Dorchester passing through Plymouth and Torquay (Faulty Towers country). We camped in a council carpark/ truck stop for 50p. Greatest amusement of the day - the greasy spoon cafe, everything had a layer of cooking fat on it including tables, windows and the not so quick diners.
