Canada, Cambridge and Cornwall!

Wow it has been a while!! It has been been a very busy 2 months!!! 

I had a great visit home in March/April. I was able to see all my friends and family! I mostly relaxed and enjoyed being at home.

Such a cutie. 

After returning to England, we started our new topic: Going For Gold. This is focused around the Olympics- ancient and modern. Half of my room is Greek and half is Rio! The children are enjoying this topic and love learning about myths.

Two weekends ago, Josh and I took a day trip to Cambridge. It was about 1.5 hours drive through the countryside! So beautiful! We spent the day wandering through town and exploring the old University buildings. It was graduation at Cambridge University so there were a lot of people dressed up in their fancy gowns and holding degrees. It was rainy to start and then we got some sunshine! We ate at a pub right on the river and looked at all the punts (kind of like a gondola). It was a lovely day out and great to experience some of England. Cambridge had such an old British feel to it.

Favourite college building. 

Cows!

Since I am passport less, Josh and I spent our bank holiday weekend exploring another part of England. I have always wanted to experience Cornwall, as I have heard amazing things.  It is on the west coast of Britain. Josh and I looked to find a hotel right near the sea and found The Ship and Castle hotel. It was in St Mawes, a little fisherman village. Our hotel was right near the harbour. It was such a cute little town! Very quaint and peaceful. They had a few pubs, some seaside shops and lots of ice cream(Cornish cream ice cream!!!). After our 6 hour drive (tons of traffic), we checked into our hotel and drove up to the St Mawes Castle. It was a beautiful sunny day. The castle was closed so we ended up going for a 1 hour walk right along the sea. We didn't even have to wear jackets!!! For dinner we went to the main pub and settled there for the night.

Pit stop on the way there.

Our hotel on the far left. 

St Mawes

St Mawes Castle

On our walk

On Sunday, we woke up and it was so cloudy and rainy!! Quite cold as well. We woke up early and started our journey. After about 1 hour of driving, we arrived at St. Ives. St. Ives is another coastal town (more North). It was bigger than St. Mawes but had a similar feel. Lots of ice cream shops and Cornish pasties. For any body who doesn't know, they are kind of like pizza pops.... but delux. You can get a variety of fillings and it is wrapped in a pastry and baked.  It still continued to rain but we wandered around anyways. Then on our drive, we made our way to Lands End. This was the most westerly point of the UK. All of a sudden, it was SO foggy that we could barely see the sea!! It was a bit disappointing. We quickly snapped some pictures and continued on, stopping at a few more places (Mousehole and Penzance). As we drove farther along the coast, we arrived at Lizard Point. This was the most southerly point of the UK. Still quite foggy but we could see a bit more. Before heading back to St. Mawes, we stopped for Cornish cream tea! So delicious! Scones with Cornish clotted cream and a pot of tea. After a long day of travelling, we drove 1 hour back to St Mawes. As it was Sunday, we tried a different pub for their Sunday roast.

St Ives

Don't see any cliffs. 

Lands End

Winnipeg is on there!

Lizard Point

The drive back on Monday took about 5 hours and we arrived back to sunshine in Camberley!! No more trips planned in the near future. Just waiting for my VIP guests to arrive soon... and my passport to come back!!!