I decided to spend a weekend at gunnislake, a short train journey from plymouth (i started at paignton, got off at newton abbot for plymouth, then plymouth to gunnislake, took about 2 hours maybe 2 and half hours ) A lovely train journey
The stay in Drakewalls B&B i can recommend to anyone, a friendly , cosy B&B , a short walk of 5 mins maybe 10 mins from gunnislake train statioyn, has very cosy rooms and a cottage kinda feel to it, the mini market is 5 mins away. The breakfast is very nice not to much and not to little. Enough to keep your tummy going till teaDave’s chip stop a lovely little fish and chip shop i can recomnend the battered sausage , chips are lovely not greasy abd not to dry,
My first day at Gunnislake i went for a walk to the donkey park at Tamar valley , about 20 minutes and a lovely walk that connects one village to the next i thought was quite funny, how 10 mins later i came out the same place has i started but yet had walked through a village or two,I couldnt stop giggling at this statue , its got to be the funniest iv’e ever seen of history, the mining pitman statue go’s back to 19th century and the Tamar valley mining industry, in 1930 arsenic was still being produced at Greenhill, in Gunnislake, an amazing little village,
Tamar valley donkey park- not a bad admission price, £10 just short of for an adult , i think a family of 4 it was £20-25 seemed abit silly me, myself and i paying £10 just to stroke a donkey hehehe, so i took a video of the Tamar donkeys in the field instead.
The warm spring day had me stopping off that evening at a lovely pub called The vollenteers arms, a very nice pint and a !ovely evening
A short walk of about 20 mins depending on how fast you walk in the lovely summer evening breeze back to Drakewalls and a lovely coffee before settling down for the nightThe next day i walked the other way into Gunnislake village, a beautiful Tamar river runs through where i walked down the riverside ,stopped to read my book for an hour or two and enjoyed the sun, and beautiful scenery before stopping off on the way back in the friendly Gunnislake pub for a nice cool pint.
Couldnt of picked a better weekend in spring to go
Amanda & the girls worldofsorts 