We have just spent the most wonderful Easter holiday at Ruth and Dick's warm, cosy cottage. When we arrived, a few lights and very useful notes all ar...
Read More...Stephen
Canada
31 mai 2022 - 28 juin 2022
Inscrit depuis 2012
Date d'expiration 23/Jan/2024
Ruth and I retired from our work nearly ten years ago. We have been home exchangees as long as I can remember. We have a son in New Zealand and another in Vancouver.
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français, gallois
Affinités
Jardinage,
VTT/Cyclisme,
Randonnées,
Amateurs de vins,
Gastronomie,
Arts,
Musique
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Professeurs,
Enseignants,
Anciens combattants & Militaires,
Retraités,
Séniors,
Personne au foyer,
Services aux personnes,
Médecins / Secteur Médical,
Fonction publique,
Avocats / Juridique,
Technologies,
Artistes / Métiers du Spectacle,
Mode,
Banque/Finance,
Sciences/Recherche,
Humanitaire,
Bénévolat
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Retired Educator / Librarian (Retraité(s))
Stephen
Canada
Val
Canada
Ann
Canada
Filiep & Lien
Belgium
We have just spent the most wonderful Easter holiday at Ruth and Dick's warm, cosy cottage. When we arrived, a few lights and very useful notes all ar...
Read More...We have just spent the most wonderful Easter holiday at Ruth and Dick's warm, cosy cottage. When we arrived, a few lights and very useful notes all around the rooms had been left to welcome us, including a nice dinner meal. We felt at home right away. Porthleven is an exquisite and unique historic harbour and oozes charm in every way. In the next days we explored several stunning beaches and places like Porthcurno, Cape Cornwall, St Ives, St Michael's Mount, St Mawes, Truro, The Lizard, St Just in Roseland, Fowey, Charlestown, ...and could never get enough of all those fabulous Cornish gardens, like Heligan, Tremenheere, Trebah... Throughout our stay we kept in touch with Ruth and Dick who were more than helpful in providing information and added a lot to our warm memories of this amazing Homelink experience. Thank you so much for swapping with us, we have appreciated this immensely and will keep on cherishing it!
Read Less...John
Canada
Carolyn & Temple
Canada
Échange de maisons simultané
Échange d'un week end
Échange de longue durée
Échange sabbatique
Fumer n'est pas autorisé
Enfants bienvenus
Échange de voiture proposé / à négocier
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Description de notre maison d'échange
Old Church Cottage is a traditionally built granite Cornish cottage located in the small fishing village of Porthleven on the South Western tip of Cornwall in England. It was built about 1840 as a one of four in a terrace of cottages near to the church, school and harbour to house the workers for a large local estate. The cottage is a compact mid-terrace house comprising of four bedrooms (two with double beds, one a sofa-bed, the other a small dressing room) and a bathroom upstairs, a shower downstairs.
Type
Maison - un étage ou plus/ Résidence principale
Aménagements et équipements
Divertissements
Extras
Environnement
Description de notre quartier et ses alentours
Porthleven was traditionally a fishing village and fishing is still an important part of the village culture. An excellent description of Porthleven and some delightful photographs of Porthleven and the surrounding area can be found on www.helstonhistory.co.uk . It is a coastal village with a population of about 5000. Porthleven was also the home to many tin miners and Cornwall exported miners to many parts of the world. It is said that if there is a deep hole in the ground, you’ll be sure to
find a Cornishman at the bottom of it. Consequently, scattered around the locality are many old mine workings. Porthleven is situated on Mounts Bay which is also a world heritage site having in it St Michael’s Mount, an ancient island fortress and abbey. Porthleven has some delightful restaurants and is close to the Minack Theatre, an open air theatre on the cliffs at Porthcurnow that stages Shakespeare and other popular plays and not far from the world famous Eden Project. (www.edenproject.com) . The beautiful coastal walks, surf beaches and warm summer weather means that Porthleven receives many thousands of visitors each year, visiting for reasons as diverse as the famous Food Festival, fishing, surfing, walking or just relaxing. Porthleven itself, has a very strong identity and the people of Porthleven are wonderfully friendly and welcoming to strangers owing to their connections with “cousin Jacks” in foreign lands. We can offer plenty of history, lovely beaches, a small fishing village, Cornish pasties, a common language and a safe time.
Activités en plein air
Loisirs
Activités culturelles
Transports à proximité
Commerçants à proximité
Nos conseils pour des restaurants, cafés, shopping et activitiés à ne pas manquer
Porthleven is situated on Mounts Bay which is also a world heritage site having in it St Michael’s Mount, an ancient island fortress and abbey. Porthleven has some delightful restaurants and is close to the Minack Theatre, an open air theatre on the cliffs at Porthcurnow that stages Shakespeare and other popular plays and not far from the world famous Eden Project.
Nos restaurants favoris
Nos cafés et bars habituels
Lieux de loisirs, sport et culture
Les balades ou circuits jogging
Les excursions à faire
Ce qu'on apprécie, ce qu'on apprécie moins… Voici nos préférences et nos règles de maison.
Unfortunately, we have now arranged our exchanges for 2022 to Vancouver.
Conditions
Échange de voitures
Échanges spéciaux
Inscrit depuis 2012
Date d'expiration 23/Jan/2024
Ruth and I retired from our work nearly ten years ago. We have been home exchangees as long as I can remember. We have a son in New Zealand and another in Vancouver.
Langues parlées
français, gallois
Affinités
Jardinage,
VTT/Cyclisme,
Randonnées,
Amateurs de vins,
Gastronomie,
Arts,
Musique
PlusMoinsAssociations professionnelles
Professeurs,
Enseignants,
Anciens combattants & Militaires,
Retraités,
Séniors,
Personne au foyer,
Services aux personnes,
Médecins / Secteur Médical,
Fonction publique,
Avocats / Juridique,
Technologies,
Artistes / Métiers du Spectacle,
Mode,
Banque/Finance,
Sciences/Recherche,
Humanitaire,
Bénévolat
PlusMoinsProfession
Retired Educator / Librarian (Retraité(s))
Stephen
Canada
Val
Canada
Ann
Canada
Filiep & Lien
Belgium
We have just spent the most wonderful Easter holiday at Ruth and Dick's warm, cosy cottage. When we arrived, a few lights and very useful notes all ar...
Read More...We have just spent the most wonderful Easter holiday at Ruth and Dick's warm, cosy cottage. When we arrived, a few lights and very useful notes all around the rooms had been left to welcome us, including a nice dinner meal. We felt at home right away. Porthleven is an exquisite and unique historic harbour and oozes charm in every way. In the next days we explored several stunning beaches and places like Porthcurno, Cape Cornwall, St Ives, St Michael's Mount, St Mawes, Truro, The Lizard, St Just in Roseland, Fowey, Charlestown, ...and could never get enough of all those fabulous Cornish gardens, like Heligan, Tremenheere, Trebah... Throughout our stay we kept in touch with Ruth and Dick who were more than helpful in providing information and added a lot to our warm memories of this amazing Homelink experience. Thank you so much for swapping with us, we have appreciated this immensely and will keep on cherishing it!
Read Less...John
Canada
Carolyn & Temple
Canada
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