A theme tour under guidance of Lee Persson with different kinds of culture, gardens and nice food!

April 1 at 07.24 o'clock an aeroplane is to take off from Arlanda with the destination London-Heathrow. There Lee Persson is waiting. She will guide us on a bustour around Cornwall - thrilling!
The corridors at Heathrow are long to pass through, we used much time to reach the meeting point. We entered the bus and our driver John was introduced. He is to be with us the whole week. In front of us we had a day tour through the south of England in springtime, with a lunch stop at Salisbury, Wiltshire. We had time to visit the cathedral and joined a short prayer at Noon. (The famous painting by Constable is to be found at internet: Salisbury Cathedral.)
On the roadsides I tried to notice what was growing: faded daffodils and light yellow primula, the willows had a light green veil and other trees had buds near bursting. But a great many roadsides are covered by gorse (ulex europaeus) in full bloom and that is giving the scrubby slopes a bright yellow colour. The hedges, so common in the English farm landscape, often consist of sloe (prunus spinosa) with their white blossoms. It is no easy task to botanize from a bus but as just a few species are in flower at this time of the year I did not lose much.
We passed through agricultural districts with green grazing land, cows and pigs. The pigs had funny round huts to shelter in. In Wilton white swans swam the river Wylye under the willows - a real romantic scene. In Dorset the landscape was more undulated, higher hills and deeper valleys. In Somerset and Devon more often sheep and newborn lambs were in the pastures than cows and pigs.
In a little village near Dunsford we were served a rich tea meal with scones, jam and an iced cake in ”The Thatched Inn”. .
Then the road went through the heaths of Dartmoor into Cornwall, and at last we arrived at our destination: Hotell The Buddock Vean, to the south of Falmouth.
Vean is an old Cornish word for church and St Budock was a Breton saint. Thus during the Celtic times a church has been in this place. However, no traces are found.

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