I had a really wonderful time with my family in July. I was home for about a month, hanging out with my family, taking a law exam and attending a girl friend from law school's Chicago wedding.
When I returned to London, Olaf was ready for a little break too. The City is empty in August, as all the bankers head to le Midi for the month. We had no summer holidays planned, as we've been saving Olaf's vacation time for trips back to California to spend Christmas and Thanksgiving with my family. Anyhow, we decided to use a Bank Holiday weekend (Monday off)to get out of the city.
I try to ask English people about their favorite places in England. Multiple people have told me about Cornwall, including my hair stylist Stephen.
Crack of dawn Saturday morning, Olaf and I picked up our Zipcar in Camden and took off for Cornwall. The trip to southwestern England was green and gorgeous, despite the masses of cars clogging the roads. We made it to Cornwall in about 7 hours.
The roads were hellishly narrow. Two lane roads that were narrow even for a one lane road. I gotta admit, we grazed a few bushes and had a few birds flipped at us for driving too slow. After a harrowing hour off back country roads, we reached our weekend home, Nansloe Manor.
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| Nansloe Manor |
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| The drive up to the hotel |
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| Our faithful Zipcar |
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| Happy cow on the manor grounds |
On Saturday night we were so excited to be out of the city, so after dropping off our bags we headed to the coast.
Our first stop was The Lizard. It was getting dark so we only walked along the cliffs for about an hour. It was super windy but we were giddy to be outdoors in the fresh air :)
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| I'm really not sure what language the people were speaking here. |
