{"id":27016,"date":"2018-08-06T08:33:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T07:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=27016"},"modified":"2018-08-05T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T10:17:22","slug":"the-rame-peninsula-camping-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-rame-peninsula-camping-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rame Peninsula – Camping Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our family holiday this year was a week on the Rame Peninsula. We were camping in Ramsey, our VW campervan after racing at the Pivot 24\/12 MTB races<\/a> near Plymouth and had no real plans for the week.<\/p>\n

Typically after months of long hot summer with blue skies, hot still days, warm nights and no rain in sight, the weather broke as soon as we had our camp set up. The following night a major storm hit. It brought down trees, cancelled the MTB races and ripped our awning out of the ground. Our plans to stay at Newnham Park on Sunday after the race were scuppered and Anna had booked us into a Travel Lodge instead! The camper was now full to the brim with soaking wet, smelly, muddy and possibly broken camping kit. We ourselves were muddy, wet and smelly too. Instead of a chilled day watching everyone else leave Newnham Park we started the day with breakfast in McDonalds and then headed into Plymouth and the National Marine Aquarium which would at least be indoors and dry.<\/p>\n

Aquarium<\/h2>\n

I definitely took at least one photo whilst in the aquarium but somehow it seems to have gone missing so you’ll have to imagine it for yourself. It’s quite impressive though with some huge tanks. Some with lots of British species in and another even larger shark tank. Pretty impressive stuff and a nice day out. We of course weren’t the only ones with the bright idea that it would be the perfect place to spend a wet and wild Sunday so it was quite busy in there. There probably weren’t quite as many tanks as we were expecting and of course it\u00a0wasn’t cheap but it was nice to see. We’d seen everything and watched the fish enough by lunch-time though so headed off towards the Hoe. I have now found the photo though!<\/p>\n

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Aquarium<\/p><\/div>\n

Lunch on the Hoe<\/h2>\n

It\u00a0wasn’t the nicest of days for wandering along the Hoe and my foot was now killing me so I couldn’t walk far anyway. I did manage to hobble from the road down to a caf\u00c3\u00a9 for lunch though. I know the\u00a0weather\u00a0wasn’t the best, but we were surprised at how deserted the Hoe was today. There was hardly anyone around. We chilled\u00a0in the caf\u00c3\u00a9 for a while, watching a large navy ship being escorted into the Sound by two tugs and a small pilot boat.<\/p>\n

Dinner in Pillaton<\/h2>\n

We then headed off towards Saltash and the Travel Lodge we had booked into where at last we could shower and feel human again. We\u00a0didn’t feel like doing a huge amount so chilled in the room for a bit, got comfortable and planned where to go for dinner.<\/p>\n

Our plans came to nothing though as we soon ended up on\u00a0something of an adventure through the narrow Cornish lanes. Road closures and pub closures soon put our plans out of the window and we ended up in a nice little pub called the Weary Friar in the village of Pillaton where we had a delicious roast dinner.<\/p>\n\n\t\t