Porteath Bee Centre didn't look much from the outside. There was a good reason for this! Entering the centre took us straight to the gift shop, which was stocked with the usual array of booze, food and cheap gifts that are available in any gift shop in Cornwall. There were, however, some locally made honey and beeswax products too. The £2.50 admission fee was reasonable enough and allowed us to ascend into the exhibition upstairs. We entered the exhibition room in the middle of a video about the life-cycle of bees. This was fairly interesting, despite being extremely dated (surely someone must have made a documentary about bees in the last thirty years?!). The other two families filtered out as they reached the point in the video at which they'd entered. We moved on shortly afterwards. Next up was a frame full of bees in which we were able to observe some of the behaviours we had just learnt about. A display of beehives and two bee viewing rooms more-or-less rounded off the exhibition, except for the snippets of information dotted around the place which were probably only really of interest to die-hard bee fans and those who hadn't just viewed the documentary. So, back down to the shop we went, which admittedly did include a fairly comprehensive stock of Winnie the Pooh related gifts. A couple of purchases later and we were back in the car, finalising our plans for the rest of the day.

Our next destination turned out to be Padstow. We were fairly certain there was a lot of water in Padstow and where there's water, we felt it fairly safe to assume there'd be fish and chips. We weren't wrong. Padstow has approximately two chip shops per resident (data obtained from unreliable source). We caught the park and ride bus which at £3 was quite a bargain, saving us the bother of finding a parking space and trying to drive through the town without knocking down a few pedestrians. Once in town we had a quick wander round the shops, which were very fishing villagey shops. Not much more can be said about them really, but it was enjoyable walking round them nonetheless. So, onto business. We found a chip shop where the queues weren't snaking halfway down the road and ended up with the best chippy chips we'd had in quite a while. We found some Cornish ice-cream to wash those down with and then continued with our wandering. After a brief and pointless visit to an Internet cafe in an attempt to free up some memory card space for my camera, we decided to get back to the campsite. After the sizeable portion of chips we'd had for lunch (with battered fish in Aimee's case) we decided Tomato soup would be more than sufficient for dinner. I have a feeling I may have eaten some mouldy bread, which wasn't apparent until the following morning. Wine and bed finished the evening off.