Very entertaining and fun video, well done and thank you. I've been visiting Cornwall and Devon from 1958 then aged 11 and still doing to this day, in fact my wife and I live half our time in Devon now. cheers Bob
Beautiful video thankyou for sharing brings back lovely memories when my mum dad took me my brother on holiday down Cornwall the Lizard Penzance Bodmin I got photos I send them for you back in 1986 Sarah and Andrew look forward to the next video 😀
Lovely video, Sarah and Andrew. One of my own invented walks is to get the train to St Erth, walk about 500m down the A30 towards Penzance, take a little lane up to the right called Heather Lane, which becomes a footpath and meets St Michael's Way. I then walk to Penzance along St Michael's way, usually stopping for a coffee at Tremenheere. Look forward to the video on Penzance!
Awww...a fantastic video again Sarah and Andrew 👌😁. So enjoyable and I knew you would love Tremenheere gardens... been there quite a few times when we stay at St Just...one of the gardens down there that you can actually take your dog with you 🐾🙌. Fascinating histories as usual and we must go and see the church at Gulval to see John Thomas's grave. I have so many things to explore when we go at the end of September...thanks to your walks 👍. My foot is slowly improving so hopefully by then I can do some longer walks 🙏. I think I was caught in that storm the other day with my pooch...boy it was torrential wasn't it 😱😁💝😘
Aww lovely to hear your foot is improving! Some rest and gentle exercise and you will be back to normal in no time, getting caught in those horrid showers!! Sarah :)
Loved the kaleidoscope of topics! You must have such good brains for logistics, editing & pasting, to end up with such a really polished video!...really enjoyable viewing! Fascinated by the story of John Thomas ~ Cornwall is always full of such interesting characters. Especially loved the family photos of you two with your respective mums. I always get so wistful looking at old family photos x
Another great video, very entertaining and I liked your homage to Monty Pythons Spanish Inquisition sketch at St Germans, then Carry on double entendre Erecting John Thomas made me laugh.Well done.
Excellent and entertaining video as always. I love the way Andrew beams into the camera as this reminds me of the great Eric Morecambe ! I have a week's holiday booked in one of those carriages at St Germans in mid-October and I am very much hoping that the weather will be a lot drier than on the day you visited !
@@CornishWalkingTrails hi guys. Sent you an email from Facebook page, I’m going to be down there in 3 weeks, staying at Pendeen lighthouse, please pop by for a cuppa if your passing ! 😀
Beautiful and interesting video as usual. And lovely to see older clips / info and the photos of you as children 💞 I have now included Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens as a eventful detour next year (fingers crossed) during the walk from Penzance to St. Michael's Mount and Marazion 🤞👍😊
Lovely video as always, full of fun things (apart from the deluge in St. Germans!). Great to see you as kids & loving the old photos from other people who also watch along every week. Lostwithiel is an ancient town. They have indoor antique fairs in the village hall there which we have been to when we are down that way. And Tremenheere looks interesting. Hopefully will get the chance to see it when we come in early October....yep, I've booked for the Lizard & fingers crossed we manage to make it back to Cornwall this year after a few mishaps in the past 3-4years. Will be visiting Roskilly & following some of your vids for Cadgwith & Mullion etc. Can't promise I will be able to walk all the routes in your footsteps, but will have a good try! x J x
Beautiful video Sarah and Andrew! Simply lovely the greenery and stories, thanks for sharing history in a candid way. Felt when you got tired of walking and felt when you got wet! Pirate’s stories are my favorite, could it be he found a deep sea treasure by chance?!?! 🤔😉…all the best! Ana M. 🌹
Hi Ana! A collection of various things!! The summer rain was so heavy and scuppered our plans. And there are plenty of wrecks on our coast line - who knows what they are hiding? Sarah :)
That was really lovely and so entertaining, I know I have said this before but there have been so many tv programs about Cornwall lately, but your videos put them in the shade, well done both, I will never know how you manage to find the time to do so many walks and edit them , but I am so glad you do :-) Thank you.
a picture vlog along with your videos would be a great idea Sarah and Andrew ,, ive got loads of pictures from Cornwall that i could send you , mines , beaches ect just an idea ,, think about it ,, love watching ,,dean and fiona xx
Great video..we were down there a week ago looking for a house to live and after a shambles of our so called accommodation we found Port Gaverne pub..lovely place ,bit expensive ,worth it for us as we found our house. Such a lovely base to travel from.
I did like the old railway coaches at St. Germans station. In fact, I can’t think exactly where that station is. That was a real Cornish storm you experienced. Mind you, we’ve had a few like that recently. You know what they say... The best laid plans etc!!
High Sarah and Andrew. That was a lovely video. Ludgvan is where my son and I stay every year and will soon be visiting. Maybe we'll see you sometime as there is a foot path which runs across the bottom of the garden which looks over to St Michaels mount. The pictures of yesteryear were great. Good to see you both in them. Sorry I got mine in too late. Looking forward to the Penzance video. PS: Sarah, Did you make the lovely sea glass pendant you were wearing?
Thank you! Yes, we will be filming the Ludgvan walk in the nest few weeks, weather depending!! And well spotted, yes the pendant is a piece of sea glass that I collected in Flushing beach and it is part of a stopper for a bottle, beautifully smooth. I want a longer chain really! Sarah :)
Great video as always and plenty to see. . . . . .beautiful area.Looking forward to visiting in May next year. Thanks for sharing with us Sarah and Andrew.
Wow! Just what I needed after a spell in A&E for nearly 24 hours, which I have survived! this video is indeed a ‘Kaleidoscope’ of contents, laughter and good humoured spirits as always, never heard of ‘St.Germans’ looked incredible living quarters plus beautiful planting, typical English Weather I see, I am usually virtually in ‘Scotland’ same weather but more of it, rain that is! Interesting grave yard and grave stone belonging to John Thomas suspected pirate! he requested being buried there for reasons you are reviewing, I suspect like Andrew his money probably came from smuggling! a pirate is more romantic though isn’t it Sarah! Loved the walk to St. Michaels Mount, I have visited there it’s fantastic, also loved the rest of your walk, very interesting, Sarah, Andrew, and enthusiastic four legged friend, thank you 😊 very much for another amazing adventure, 😊🤗👋
@@CornishWalkingTrails thank you 😊 Sarah you both cheered me up no end! Your furry friend always makes me smile, I miss my English pointer, our pet’s are always so faithful to us, like our life partner’s when we are lucky like you and Andrew, and I was with mine, bless you both until next time 🤗
Interesting and entertaining as usual. Thank you. Regarding the skull and crossbones on John Thomas's grave (that name did make me chuckle!) - the symbol has links to the Knights Templar and Freemasons apparently. Wealthy people were often involved with those organisations so maybe, if JT was a wealthy man, that is way it was on his grave?
Thanks for (another) great video. As you say, there does not seem to be any surviving hard evidence of John Thomas' involvement in privateering/piracy/smuggling, but he could not have racked up all that wealth as a simple yeoman and there is a further twist to the tale of John Thomas of Marazion / Gulval, that we are busy researching at the moment - but saving for Marazion Museum 😉. There were also other merchants and sea captains in Marazion involved in a bit of privateering after his death and some with links to the Carters of Prussia Cove.
@@CornishWalkingTrails will let you know when we have got it all together. Will certainly put something in the museum and probably a short version on a blog or FB page.
Haha I used to have a customer when I ran the shop in Marazion whose name was ..... John Thomas! Was he a pirate? Not at all. He was a really nice chap. Not sure if he was related to pirates though. 🤔 😁 As for Tremenheere .... well worth a visit. Interesting place.
If he was Catholic, and made it all the way across the atlantic, he could have come by some wealth honestly. Just by being a nice guy. There were also quite a bit of pirates treasures stashed on various islands from Portugal to North Carolina to Mexico to Tahiti to islands i can't even say. Also, and most likely if he was loyal to king somebody, he could have been working for the crown. The settlers across the pond were getting a little cranky and it was becoming a bit more difficult to deliver goods. Also, around that time, pirating on behalf of the crown was alive and well. The only reason i say all of that is because his gravestone said he was going on to a better place. Maybe pirates weren't as gruesome as they are painted to be. And of course there was the slave trade, going strong from England to the states around 1750 or so. It was during that time, after the Tuscarora War that 20,000+ Tuscarora were shipped to the West Indies as slaves. And members of other tribes who fought alongside the Tuscarora. Always remember, when I speak with any authority, that I am no historian and have not stayed at a Holiday Inn recently. This is ALL conjecture from things I think I remember. Except the Tuscarora. I can speak with some accuracy on that one.
Many pirates were connected with the crown. It was more or less a mercenary " navy".,,,I was a history teacher but really only studied the raise of democracy thanks to English history. But there were little snipets of odd facts....
St. Germans. Fascinating name. I wonder what it's origins were?? Another great CWT video guys.
Simply delightful
Very entertaining and fun video, well done and thank you. I've been visiting Cornwall and Devon from 1958 then aged 11 and still doing to this day, in fact my wife and I live half our time in Devon now. cheers Bob
Just across the border! Sarah :)
Such a lovely Video !!!
penzance is a great place , fresh fish and chips from the chippy in queen street ,,lovely food
Sarah and Andrew, I just love you and your videos! Looking forward to exploring some of the sites you visit next May!
How exciting! Won't be long before you are counting down the days!! Sarah :)
Great stuff, always better when things don`t quite work out.
Beautiful video thankyou for sharing brings back lovely memories when my mum dad took me my brother on holiday down Cornwall the Lizard Penzance Bodmin I got photos I send them for you back in 1986
Sarah and Andrew look forward to the next video 😀
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you Sarah :)
Lovely video, Sarah and Andrew. One of my own invented walks is to get the train to St Erth, walk about 500m down the A30 towards Penzance, take a little lane up to the right called Heather Lane, which becomes a footpath and meets St Michael's Way. I then walk to Penzance along St Michael's way, usually stopping for a coffee at Tremenheere. Look forward to the video on Penzance!
That sounds interesting! I think we will have to investigate!! Thanks for the tip! Sarah :)
Love you both! And loved the photos. Thank you !
Yay! Thank you! Sarah :)
Awww...a fantastic video again Sarah and Andrew 👌😁. So enjoyable and I knew you would love Tremenheere gardens... been there quite a few times when we stay at St Just...one of the gardens down there that you can actually take your dog with you 🐾🙌. Fascinating histories as usual and we must go and see the church at Gulval to see John Thomas's grave. I have so many things to explore when we go at the end of September...thanks to your walks 👍. My foot is slowly improving so hopefully by then I can do some longer walks 🙏. I think I was caught in that storm the other day with my pooch...boy it was torrential wasn't it 😱😁💝😘
Aww lovely to hear your foot is improving! Some rest and gentle exercise and you will be back to normal in no time, getting caught in those horrid showers!! Sarah :)
SO nice to see how far in the world your channel reaches, its come a long way since the start. All good too.
Agreed! Such a fascinating adventure! Sarah :)
Loved the kaleidoscope of topics! You must have such good brains for logistics, editing & pasting, to end up with such a really polished video!...really enjoyable viewing! Fascinated by the story of John Thomas ~ Cornwall is always full of such interesting characters. Especially loved the family photos of you two with your respective mums. I always get so wistful looking at old family photos x
Oh thank you! Sarah :)
Another great video, very entertaining and I liked your homage to Monty Pythons Spanish Inquisition sketch at St Germans, then Carry on double entendre Erecting John Thomas made me laugh.Well done.
Glad you enjoyed it! Subtlety is our middle name!! If the sun had come our we could have burst into "Bring me sunshine....!" Sarah :)
Excellent and entertaining video as always. I love the way Andrew beams into the camera as this reminds me of the great Eric Morecambe ! I have a week's holiday booked in one of those carriages at St Germans in mid-October and I am very much hoping that the weather will be a lot drier than on the day you visited !
Ahhh! Lucky you! They look fantastic and fully booked!! Let us know what you think! Sarah :)
That was a fun video to watch,thank you ☺️
You’re welcome 😊
@@CornishWalkingTrails hi guys. Sent you an email from Facebook page, I’m going to be down there in 3 weeks, staying at Pendeen lighthouse, please pop by for a cuppa if your passing ! 😀
Beautiful and interesting video as usual. And lovely to see older clips / info and the photos of you as children 💞 I have now included Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens as a eventful detour next year (fingers crossed) during the walk from Penzance to St. Michael's Mount and Marazion 🤞👍😊
Tremenheere is a very interesting place to visit, and worthwhile! Some really fun sculptures! Sarah :)
Tremhere is brilliant - thanks for the info about Gulval.
Loved this video Sarah & Andrew, really interesting one. I particularly like the history/ biographical stories you weave in. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Sarah :)
Lovely video as always, full of fun things (apart from the deluge in St. Germans!). Great to see you as kids & loving the old photos from other people who also watch along every week. Lostwithiel is an ancient town. They have indoor antique fairs in the village hall there which we have been to when we are down that way. And Tremenheere looks interesting. Hopefully will get the chance to see it when we come in early October....yep, I've booked for the Lizard & fingers crossed we manage to make it back to Cornwall this year after a few mishaps in the past 3-4years. Will be visiting Roskilly & following some of your vids for Cadgwith & Mullion etc. Can't promise I will be able to walk all the routes in your footsteps, but will have a good try! x J x
I really hope it comes off for you Judy!! I have everything crossed! Sarah :)
Beautiful video Sarah and Andrew! Simply lovely the greenery and stories, thanks for sharing history in a candid way. Felt when you got tired of walking and felt when you got wet! Pirate’s stories are my favorite, could it be he found a deep sea treasure by chance?!?! 🤔😉…all the best! Ana M. 🌹
Hi Ana! A collection of various things!! The summer rain was so heavy and scuppered our plans. And there are plenty of wrecks on our coast line - who knows what they are hiding? Sarah :)
i,m missing Cornwall this year,,holidays next year for a month near helston,,
That was really lovely and so entertaining, I know I have said this before but there have been so many tv programs about Cornwall lately, but your videos put them in the shade, well done both, I will never know how you manage to find the time to do so many walks and edit them , but I am so glad you do :-) Thank you.
Wow, thank you! Sarah :)
So wonderful to see and hear the rain. Love this location. The pirate story is interesting. The gardens are beautiful. Thanks for sharing the joy.
Glad you enjoyed it, Sarah :)
a picture vlog along with your videos would be a great idea Sarah and Andrew ,, ive got loads of pictures from Cornwall that i could send you , mines , beaches ect just an idea ,, think about it ,, love watching ,,dean and fiona xx
Great idea! If only I had some spare time! Sarah :)
Great video..we were down there a week ago looking for a house to live and after a shambles of our so called accommodation we found Port Gaverne pub..lovely place ,bit expensive ,worth it for us as we found our house. Such a lovely base to travel from.
Sounds great! Port Gaverne pub is great! Granted, on the expensive side but lovely! Fingers crossed for the house, Sarah :)
Awesome video ,love to escape there one day ,,, love from lockdown #6 here in Victoria, Australia oxoxoxoxoxoxo
Thanks for watching! Lockdown #6 - how arduous! We have all but come out of lockdown, only a few but necessary restrictions. I feel for you! Sarah :)
That epic moment when you lose the will to live whilst recording a walk video ; ; bless you guys
Ha! Ha! Yes indeed! Sarah :)
I did like the old railway coaches at St. Germans station. In fact, I can’t think exactly where that station is. That was a real Cornish storm you experienced. Mind you, we’ve had a few like that recently. You know what they say... The best laid plans etc!!
It is the next station down the main GWR line to Penzance after Saltash (which is by the Royal Albert Bridge) .
High Sarah and Andrew. That was a lovely video. Ludgvan is where my son and I stay every year and will soon be visiting. Maybe we'll see you sometime as there is a foot path which runs across the bottom of the garden which looks over to St Michaels mount. The pictures of yesteryear were great. Good to see you both in them. Sorry I got mine in too late. Looking forward to the Penzance video.
PS: Sarah, Did you make the lovely sea glass pendant you were wearing?
Thank you! Yes, we will be filming the Ludgvan walk in the nest few weeks, weather depending!! And well spotted, yes the pendant is a piece of sea glass that I collected in Flushing beach and it is part of a stopper for a bottle, beautifully smooth. I want a longer chain really! Sarah :)
Great video as always and plenty to see. . . . . .beautiful area.Looking forward to visiting in May next year. Thanks for sharing with us Sarah and Andrew.
Our pleasure! Sarah :)
Wow! Just what I needed after a spell in A&E for nearly 24 hours, which I have survived! this video is indeed a ‘Kaleidoscope’ of contents, laughter and good humoured spirits as always, never heard of ‘St.Germans’ looked incredible living quarters plus beautiful planting, typical English Weather I see, I am usually virtually in ‘Scotland’ same weather but more of it, rain that is! Interesting grave yard and grave stone belonging to John Thomas suspected pirate! he requested being buried there for reasons you are reviewing, I suspect like Andrew his money probably came from smuggling! a pirate is more romantic though isn’t it Sarah! Loved the walk to St. Michaels Mount, I have visited there it’s fantastic, also loved the rest of your walk, very interesting, Sarah, Andrew, and enthusiastic four legged friend, thank you 😊 very much for another amazing adventure, 😊🤗👋
You're welcome! So glad you are feeling better, Sarah :)
@@CornishWalkingTrails thank you 😊 Sarah you both cheered me up no end! Your furry friend always makes me smile, I miss my English pointer, our pet’s are always so faithful to us, like our life partner’s when we are lucky like you and Andrew, and I was with mine, bless you both until next time 🤗
Definite pirate sea gangster
Interesting and entertaining as usual. Thank you.
Regarding the skull and crossbones on John Thomas's grave (that name did make me chuckle!) - the symbol has links to the Knights Templar and Freemasons apparently. Wealthy people were often involved with those organisations so maybe, if JT was a wealthy man, that is way it was on his grave?
Of course, yes and we have Walter Raleigh too, the ultimate pirate I guess! And sponsored by her majesty who had much to gain! Sarah :)
Thanks for (another) great video. As you say, there does not seem to be any surviving hard evidence of John Thomas' involvement in privateering/piracy/smuggling, but he could not have racked up all that wealth as a simple yeoman and there is a further twist to the tale of John Thomas of Marazion / Gulval, that we are busy researching at the moment - but saving for Marazion Museum 😉. There were also other merchants and sea captains in Marazion involved in a bit of privateering after his death and some with links to the Carters of Prussia Cove.
Ooooo! How interesting! Love to know more! Are you producing an exhibition or leaflet of your findings? Sarah :)
@@CornishWalkingTrails will let you know when we have got it all together. Will certainly put something in the museum and probably a short version on a blog or FB page.
Haha I used to have a customer when I ran the shop in Marazion whose name was ..... John Thomas! Was he a pirate? Not at all. He was a really nice chap. Not sure if he was related to pirates though. 🤔 😁 As for Tremenheere .... well worth a visit. Interesting place.
Oh wow! These 'John Thomas' get everywhere! And they may very well be related! Sarah :)
Will the walk around the Lizard available for us none patrons ?
A vlog on RUclips, the walk instructions (written and instructional video) will be on Patreon. Sarah :)
@@CornishWalkingTrails lovely
Erected? John Thomas? Talk about double entendres. Oohh Errr!!
Oooo er Mrs! "Carry on churchyard"!!
If he was Catholic, and made it all the way across the atlantic, he could have come by some wealth honestly. Just by being a nice guy. There were also quite a bit of pirates treasures stashed on various islands from Portugal to North Carolina to Mexico to Tahiti to islands i can't even say. Also, and most likely if he was loyal to king somebody, he could have been working for the crown. The settlers across the pond were getting a little cranky and it was becoming a bit more difficult to deliver goods. Also, around that time, pirating on behalf of the crown was alive and well. The only reason i say all of that is because his gravestone said he was going on to a better place. Maybe pirates weren't as gruesome as they are painted to be. And of course there was the slave trade, going strong from England to the states around 1750 or so. It was during that time, after the Tuscarora War that 20,000+ Tuscarora were shipped to the West Indies as slaves. And members of other tribes who fought alongside the Tuscarora. Always remember, when I speak with any authority, that I am no historian and have not stayed at a Holiday Inn recently. This is ALL conjecture from things I think I remember. Except the Tuscarora. I can speak with some accuracy on that one.
Love a great pirate story!!! Thank you for sharing! Sarah :)
Many pirates were connected with the crown. It was more or less a mercenary " navy".,,,I was a history teacher but really only studied the raise of democracy thanks to English history. But there were little snipets of odd facts....
I loved history at school, had a fantastic teacher for A Level, who would act things out, jumping on the desk. He was great! Sarah :)
@@CornishWalkingTrails never jumped on a desk ( would probably got me fired) but could moonwalk from chalk board to chalkboard...