Mothers Day in Cornwall

Today is mother's day in England. Irene and I spent the whole day in Falmouth.

First we had a Cornish Cream Tea. It consisted of a pot of tea, a pitcher of hot water, a pitcher of milk, and for each of us two scones, warm from the oven, full of raisins with cornish clotted cream and strawberry jam.

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We visited Irene's favorite sweets shop, and bought an assortment of fudge: peppermint, blueberry and clotted cream fudge.

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It was low tide when we got down to the harbor, and all the boats are at the bottom of the basin. Below is one of the pubs by the harbor with the casks of beer piled outside.

A little beyond the harbor we found the spring festival which has been going on all weekend. There was a market, and a few simple rides. No noisy tivoli with flashing lights and blaring music here. This merry-go-round is being cranked by hand.

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We met up with Jenny, one of Irene's friends at Falmouth, and together we walked all over Falmouth, enjoyed the park and looked at the house Irene will be living in next year. Finally we had ice cream made from organic jersey milk and cream at a local farm.

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After Jenny left us we still had over an hour to kill before going to the cinema. So we walked along a pathway from the beach in Falmouth to another beach further away.

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Our day ended at the cinema. The Falmouth cinema is very cool in that it has armchairs for seats with a little table and a menu between each 2 seats. You can order snacks and drinks to go with your movie experience. We had nachos. The film we say was thought-provoking but a little strange: "Never let me go" - a science fiction film of a society where a class of people are raised for the sole purpose to become organ donors for the rest of society. The films weakness was that you didn't get any sense of exactly how these organ donor children originated. The ending was kind of wierd as well. You kept expecting them to rebell, but it never happened. They just accepted their lot.