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. juni 2022
Ble medlem i: 2012
Utløpsdato: 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.
Andre språk jeg snakker
fransk, walisisk
Aktiviteter
Planter og hage,
Sykling,
Vandring,
Vinelskere,
Gourmet,
Kunst,
Musikkelskere
MerMindreInteresser
Akademiker,
Lærere / pedagoger,
Veteraner og militære,
Pensjonister,
Seniorer,
Hjemmeværende,
Pleiere,
Helse og omsorg,
Offentlig ansatte,
Jurister,
Teknologi,
Kunstnere / underholdningsindustri,
Mote,
Bank og finans,
Forskning og vitenskap,
Arbeider frivillig,
Frivillig samfunnsarbeider
MerMindreYrke
Retired Educator / Librarian (Pensjonert)
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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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
Hus - to eller fler etasjer/ Hovedbolig
Fasiliteter
Underholdning
Ekstra
Beliggenhet
Beskrivelse av vårt nabolag og området rundt
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.
Utendørs aktiviteter
Fritid
Kulturelle aktiviteter
Transport i nærheten
Servicetilbud i nærheten
Våre tips til steder å gå og ting å gjøre mens du bor i vårt hjem
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.
Vår favoritt-restauranter
Morsomme kafeer og barer
Fritids- og kulturaktiviteter
Turer eller joggestier
Interessante dagsturer
Hva vi liker, hva vi ikke liker ... Her er våre preferanser og husordensregler.
Unfortunately, we have now arranged our exchanges for 2022 to Vancouver.
Betingelser
Bruk av personlig bil
Byttetyper
Ble medlem i: 2012
Utløpsdato: 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.
Andre språk jeg snakker
fransk, walisisk
Aktiviteter
Planter og hage,
Sykling,
Vandring,
Vinelskere,
Gourmet,
Kunst,
Musikkelskere
MerMindreInteresser
Akademiker,
Lærere / pedagoger,
Veteraner og militære,
Pensjonister,
Seniorer,
Hjemmeværende,
Pleiere,
Helse og omsorg,
Offentlig ansatte,
Jurister,
Teknologi,
Kunstnere / underholdningsindustri,
Mote,
Bank og finans,
Forskning og vitenskap,
Arbeider frivillig,
Frivillig samfunnsarbeider
MerMindreYrke
Retired Educator / Librarian (Pensjonert)
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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