We went to the Eden Project at St Austwell on Saturday, September 8. It was just under an hour’s drive away. We took the back roads. We’ve done that a fair bit here as Susanna grew up in this area and knows all the different ways to go. It also helps miss the traffic on the main roads But it does mean that the roads are often very narrow (even the so-called A Roads). At times they are barely wide enough to allow one car to travel along them – let alone for cars to pass each other. We travelled via a place called Fowey and took a ferry across a tidal river.
The Eden Project is fascinating. It was started in the 1990s and consists of three giant biomes that show the diversity and usefulness of plants throughout the world. One of the biomes is the outside biome and it shows plants from temperate climates. The two enclosed biomes are in giant greenhouse-like structure. One showcases rainforest plants and the other Mediterranean plants. The project also helps preserve many endangered plants and strongly promotes sustainability and concepts such as Fair Trade food, food miles and an understanding of climate change.
We had dinner at the only restaurant in Downderry – the Rosery. It was run by and English chap and his mum. We had a lovely meal – fresh Cornish produce – Alastair and Ross had lamb and Susanna and I the locally caught sea bass. We also startled the locals by ordering a sparkling shiraz (it was a 1998 vintage – we suspect they bought a case many years before and no one ever asked for it before!). It immediately took the fancy of some of the locals dining there!
Carlene
The Eden Project is fascinating. It was started in the 1990s and consists of three giant biomes that show the diversity and usefulness of plants throughout the world. One of the biomes is the outside biome and it shows plants from temperate climates. The two enclosed biomes are in giant greenhouse-like structure. One showcases rainforest plants and the other Mediterranean plants. The project also helps preserve many endangered plants and strongly promotes sustainability and concepts such as Fair Trade food, food miles and an understanding of climate change.
We had dinner at the only restaurant in Downderry – the Rosery. It was run by and English chap and his mum. We had a lovely meal – fresh Cornish produce – Alastair and Ross had lamb and Susanna and I the locally caught sea bass. We also startled the locals by ordering a sparkling shiraz (it was a 1998 vintage – we suspect they bought a case many years before and no one ever asked for it before!). It immediately took the fancy of some of the locals dining there!
Carlene
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