As is tradition with
Easter Weekend we decided to go camping and spend the four days in "The
Ice Cream Lorry" at Berryfields Camp site at Porthcothan Cornwall.
Tracey Mike and
Callum have had a static caravan here for some years. It is not a large
developed site with clubhouse and all amenities. In fact it does not even have
a shop for rations. However what it does have is a rather splendid kitchen
arrangement that was commercially
revamped last year. This enables Chris the site owner and his family team to
offer a very wide and varied breakfast / lunch menu. There is also the facilty
to offer home-made scones with jam and cream and glorious milkshakes. In effect
Cornish Cream Teas. Bootifull!
Alas none of these
culinary delights will be available this weekend as Chris’s winter project has
been the complete rebuilding of the Gents and Ladies loos, showers and dish
washing facilities. These are nearing completion and although Easter is a traditional
start to the season he has slid that date back till mid-May.
We left home at
1645hrs and surprisingly we were on the site at 1805 hrs. A miracle given it
was the start of the bank holiday migration. We had been down the previous
weekend to drop our canoes. The weather then was perfect and we stayed
overnight in Tracey’s caravan. Alas there is no way we can get the canoes onto
"The Ice Cream Lorry" and we thought if Easter weekend weather was
good and the all-important sea state calm, we would kick ourselves if they were
not to hand.
We pulled up behind
the hedge which separates Tracey’s fixed site with our transient site. The
fence, new in 2016 had blown away in this year’s winter storms and Chris had
this replacement task lower down on his list of priorities!
No sooner had we
arrived than it was sun downers and then lose ourselves in our respective books
till it was time to put Jackie’s home-made stew on to heat.
