Plymouth, Cornwall, Millbrook, whatever!

Okay so we took the bus to Plymouth, Devon county, but really needed to go to Millbrook, but the boat is located in Southdown. Not sure if Southdown is the name of the marina or an actual town name. Oh, and Cornwall, is the county, for Millbrook, that is. Devon and Cornwall have a fierce rivalrey. Good, glad you are keeping up. I know we are supose to speak the same language and everything, but I speak American and not very well! The saying goes "The biggest divide between Britain and American is caused by the confusion that we speak the same language." One of the many cool phrases / sayings /quotes /vocabulary words, I've picked up over here, but another blog about that later.

Southdown Marina

Yeah, that's all the boats sitting in the mud!

Now, a bit about a little town named Millbrook, and the Southdown marina where we are staying. Millbrook is charming, quaint, something right out of a Hugh Grant movie. It has a pub - the Devon & Cornwall and a Grocery, Natural foods, hardware, a restaurant, a fish & chips take away, and charity shop downtown. Oh, their is one gas station in town and a bus stop of course! Well, that's about it. One notable thing to mention is the size of the streets, lets just say they are very little two ways through & out of town. The road just before town center is lined so high with berry shrubs it's like your driving in a corn maze.

Bri working on/ in the Freezer!

Kat Power washing the deck

South Down - What can I say about it? Humm, it's like Napa, that is for boats! Mud pie anyone? My name is mud? It is the most unique marina I have every been too. The tide rises and falls so much (6-9 meters) that twice a day all the boats are sitting on the hard, well the mud, that is. Then the tide comes back in and you are again floating. So, to go sailing, you have to wait for high tide to even get out of the marina, and in our case, being such a large vessel, we were also waiting for the highest tide of the month (cyclical you know) to leave on.

Anyhow, the people who lived at the marina were really the only great thing about it. There were not many amenities and it was all dirt. It did however have a bathroom, shower facilities, cafe, & washer and dyer. That is if you wanted to pay $4pounds a wash and $4 pounds a dry = that's about $12US a load! Yauzers! Oh, and the dryer didn't work. Whatever!

We were supose to be leaving on the 7th of September. It then got pushed back to the 19th, with us actually leaving on the October 4th!