#minehead Archives • Folksy Travel by Bill Smale

the whole Cornwall area is extremely beautiful with abundant ocean views, beaches and places for families and outdoor activities. It’s difficult to choose which area is most interesting since they all have their unique attractions. But the north coast is an area you will find some extremely unusual terrain in the Hill area areas and the valleys but also you can find some incredibly intricate and interesting small Oceanside villages and ports.

Newquay

this area has extremely beautiful beaches and a fairly significant port. The fish restaurants here are plentiful and highly recommended.

Long Beach loving north Cornwall — A typical loan beach in the area

Interesting old building loving north Cornwall — I just found this to be a very interesting building since it’s typical of the area. You have the old building in front and you have a new addition in back for whatever needs to be added or made more modern.

Cliff sites loving north Cornwall — The cliff areas are very dramatic. I wonder if all of these buildings will still be there in 300 years. Erosion of these cliffs has also been dramatic

Exmoor national Park

this national park is really a must visit area. Every 10 minutes you have entirely different and beautiful scenery. Some of it can look a little desolate but most of it is very green and attractive.

Narrow roads Bill Smale — Many places in Cornwall in the countryside will have these two way roads which requires some mutual understanding and cooperation at times

Narrow roads with horses Bill Smale — In this area they not only walk the dogs but they also walk the horses. Go slow in the countryside since there are many things which share them

Winding Road Bill Smale — Winding road in the park

Typical Hill — Typical hilly countryside

Minehead

i’m sure there is a reason for the name of the town, probably related to mining. But this is an interesting town to visit partly since it reminds me a little bit of Brighton in England with the long white building along the beach side near the train station.

Unusual English — I stated this Hotel and I will explain a little bit in the next photo but I found this use of the stem word for customer to be kind of interesting. I’m not familiar with this usage but then again the UK has some unusual English.

Interesting Hotel — This is a nice place to stay, inexpensive and I highly recommend it for those reasons but for one other. The people managing this hotel higher and train young mentally disabled to help out which I found a very good use of a hospitality operation. Everybody is extremely cheerful and the atmosphere is very bright and welcoming. Please stay here if you are in the area. Give young people an opportunity to challenge themselves at their potential.

England style breakfast — This was an extremely full breakfast, England style

Small lunch — There is a local café which serves a limited menu, very inexpensive but frequented by residence. This was a sausage sandwich which of course required some seasoning I brought with me but was fine for just a small lunch.

Old train station — This is the old train station. I would have to look on a map to see if it is still in use

Queens Hall — The old queen’s hall needs some renovation.

For sale — The Queen’s Hall is up for sale. Let’s hope some company finds use of this beautiful old building, maybe for tourism related operations

Old clock — Near the port area and of course it requires a clock

Nice building — I just like this building

Bude

I stopped here but I’m not particularly recommending this town. I didn’t find much interesting here so you could skip it.

Not much interesting — This is one of the more picture risk views I managed

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