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Monday, September 20, 2010

Scilly Isles and gardens


Here we are on the beach on day one of the holiday in St Mary's in the Scilly Isles.

We had a really relaxing time.



as you can see from this photo.

We saw lots of gardens even though September isn't the best time of year for flowers.

I recommend the Lost Gardens of Heligan - even in Sept they were lovely. We also went to Tresco and to the eden Project and of the three I least liked Eden, mostly because it felt a bit more like a theme park than a garden. However they had fabulous sculptures as well as wonderful planting. Brian found the rainforest biome a bit too hot so we didn't stay that long in there.

The Scillies were great for a week. We walked, we sat on the beach and didn't get stuck with horrible weather and nowhere to go (thankfully) but a colleague who was there in the rain hated it. For two weeks with nice weather so you could sit on the beach more it would be fine too, but we covered most of the island walking in one week and we are fairly leisurely walkers. If you don't sail I really don't know what you would do with your time.

2 comments:

oreneta said...

Sounds about perfect, where do I sign up?

Boo and Trev said...

Sounds lovely, but I wouldn't fancy living on an island (OK technically, I do, but you know what I mean