One of the great pleasures of visiting Britain and Ireland is the fantastic abundance and diversity of interesting destinations to visit. With high wind warnings and poor anchoring conditions predicted for our scheduled landing, the Isles of Scilly, we chose instead to spend the morning in the protected harbor of Falmouth, Cornwall, near the south west corner of England.
Cornwall country roads are famously narrow, as we discovered. They also offer fine views of the harbor and the surrounding countryside. On the way to Trebah, we stopped to view Pendennis and St. Mawes castles, built by Henry VIII to protect Carrick Roads. Falmouth is located at the intersection of seven rivers, a waterway called Carrick Roads.
Trebah Garden was started in the 1830's by Charles Fox, and for the next one hundred years, it was filled with exotic plants from around the world. The estate was split up and sold in 1939, and the gardens went untended and were almost lost. For the last twenty years, they have been lovingly restored by the Hibbert family. Many of us walked to the beach that was one of the major staging sites for American troops leaving for Omaha Beach.
