Jamaica Inn and Inkie's Smokehouse.

 I always buy batteries for my bikes, our car, and our motorhome from Tayna. Service is always great and they have come up trumps (pardon the word) again. The Motobat battery, ordered on Friday and promised within two working days, arrived on Saturday morning.  I fitted it on Saturday afternoon. 

My hip is a bit better and I can ride, so today we went out for a few hours on the Address. The first stop was the Jamaica Inn.

It's a famous place thanks to Daphne Du Maurier's novel, and it's quite quirky.  

Smuggling used to be Cornwall's major industry

Poor old Joss

Because of this it is besieged by tourists in the summer, but it was not too   bad today.  It is situated up on the higher part of Bodmin Moor

After a drink here we headed off towards Dozemary Pool, where legend has it that the Lady of the Lake showed Arthur how to extract Excalibur from the stone. But the path down to the pool was extremely muddy, like everywhere else in the UK due to more than double the average rainfall in the last couple of months.  But that for another day now.

The intention was to take some video of the next part of the trip, but my little cheap Dragon Touch action camera keeps crashing.  It's a shame as it's a nice road.

I'm not buying another action camera, so next time I will use my iPhone.  It's image stabilisation is not as good as a proper action camera, but it's not too bad.

We then went to Inkie's Smokehouse at Goliath falls for a hot dog.  

This was welcome as the temperature was still only around 12C 

Then a ride over the moor through St Neot, Mount, and Bodmin back home.

The ride was a bit on the chilly side.  We will do it again when it's a bit warmer and when the ground has dried out we'll get down to Dozemary Pool.  

Next ride will have video from the iPhone - I hope.