I simply can’t let a summer go by without my annual treat of a trip on the open top bus – the service 300 which does a circular route beginning and terminating at Penzance stopping at numerous places including Porthcurno, Lands End, Geevor Mine, St Ives and Marazion. You purchase a day ticket for £7.20 and can hop on and off as many times as you like in the day, with buses approx every 3 hours and travelling in either direction on this meandering, circular route.

If you were planning a car free holiday you could use it every day and walk along different stretches of the coastal footpath, go to the beach in St Ives, Porthcurno or Marazion, have lunch and do the art galleries in St Ives………..such a lovely way to enjoy the landscape of West Cornwall.

If you’re coming down to stay at Boscrowan from London have you ever considered booking a berth on the night riviera sleeper train from Paddington to Penzance I wonder?

It’s probably the closest you’ll ever get to travelling on the Hogwarts Express in Harry Potter stories I imagine!

Have now used this service on several occasions I can highly recommend it – when you consider if you are travelling alone you can even book a single cabin, room service – breakfast in bed, a washbasin, toiletries, crisp white cotton bed linen and all for just over £100 or even as little as £71 on one journey I did  –  this is incredible value. You will arive at Penzance just before 8 am with the whole day ahead of you, a good public transport service when you are here – the open top bus in the summer months, not to mention buses and trains and car hire firms. A holiday without the stress and cost of a long car journey, and of course the sustainability issues!

At Boscrowan we even provide beautiful bespoke covered coathangers for our guests! Not the usual made in China satin variety, needless to say, but made the ‘made at Boscrowan’ variety, made from designer fabric offcuts from our busy Soft Furnishing business here www.finecurtains.co.uk

It recently occurred to me that we could have a teaching day, together with a delicious lunch (you can normally tempt even better with some good food) and raise some money for charity – so a friend and I set about this task and 2 days ago held a most successful day here – a 2 hour practical session and a 2 course lunch with wine and we raised in excess of £560 for Marie Curie Cancer Care and everyone went home with a beautiful coathanger.

Perhaps we might even repeat this event!