First wedding anniversary weekend in Padstow, Cornwall

I can't quite believe it but my first wedding anniversary has just happened. A whole year ago was the best day of my life. 

Luckily I have the most amazing husband in the world and when I asked him if we could do something nice for our anniversary he replied

"How do you know that I don't already have something planned..."

Secretive little bugger.

Well he wasn't kidding! "I've booked somewhere for dinner" turned into "you will need to pack an overnight bag". Whoopdedoo!!

Exciting stuff.

Well I packed, and we set off on the Friday afternoon, nothing programmed into the sat-nav. Every time we got to a big junction and didn't go one way I realised where it was that we weren't going!! My husband then let on it was going to be a long drive. I had joked that I hoped we weren't driving back to where we got engaged (Edinburgh)! It turned out that it wasn't much less distance wise!!!!!!!

We arrived in Padstow in the dark, which was quite exciting as had to wait until morning to see what the view from the hotel was like.




It wasn't disappointing, if a tad soggy! From the room in the hotel where we had breakfast you could see right out across the estuary. Unfortunately  the weather wasn't quite as good as it was a year ago (baking hot sunshine!) but we braced ourselves and made the most of it. 

We wandered around Padstow and looked in a few shops.

They got this right!

We then decided to walk down to the Lower beach. Luckily the tide was out otherwise there wouldn't have been a beach!! 

 We found a cute cave on the way back.

My husband then told me the reason that he choice Padstow (along with there being a restaurant there he had wanted to go to for ages) was the Camel trail. 

The Camel Trail is a cycle path that runs alongside the estuary from Padstow through Wadebridge to Bodmin. He remembers this from his childhood and thought that I would enjoy cycling it. I have nothing against cycling per say, but the fear of being hit by a car puts me off it a little. Well other than a tiny bit in Wadebridge (where there are cycle lanes) it is all TRAFFIC FREE! Amazing. A whole 22mile round trip. 

The trail is situated along the route of the disused railway line so travels through wooded areas, marshland and the coastal route. They have left many of the old station platforms which is quite fascinating.

There was absolutely tonnes of wild garlic growing along the trail. We could smell it as we cycled along.

Like I said earlier, my husband wanted to go for dinner at this restaurant in Padstow called Paul Ainsworth at No 6. Paul Ainsworth was on the Great British Menu a few years ago.

Dinner was delicious and we had such a fabulous weekend in Cornwall. I do hope we get to go back again some day.