Cornwall Road trip

Trip Log:
Members: 2
Start time: 8:00 AM, Friday, 16th Aug, 2013
End time: 12:30 AM, Monday, 19th Aug, 2013
Duration: 3 days, 2 nights
Total travel: 700 miles drive
Total walk: 10 km
Trip Type: Road trip, Beach holiday, Leisure
Total expense:
Around GBP 600, inclusive of accommodation, car hire, fuel, food, entertainment, transport
What went great:
- Road trip - as always the best way to travel!
- Durdle door - lovely place
- Beautiful beaches and clouds everywhere in Cornwall
- Cornish pasty
Bad: 
- Car rental agency (Greenmotion) is outside Heathrow airport. Need to take a shuttle bus to reach to car rental outlet. Time consuming and expensive bus service. 
- Rain all the time on Day 2
- Tiring drive on the last day while going back to London

Weather: Pleasant and Sunny, Heavy Rainfall

The road trip map:

Itinerary planned for the trip (and almost followed):

Day/Time	Where	Things to do	Fee	Notes
Day 1, 16 Aug, Friday: Dorset/St. Ives
9.00 am	London	Car pick up	Booked	Green Motion Car Rental, London Heathrow Airport Holiday Inn M4J4 Sipson Road West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 0JU 44-20-81229265
10.00 am		Start drive towards Dorset		Airport to Dorset: 114 miles, 2 hrs 15 mins Airport to Dorset: 114 miles, 2 hrs 15 mins Nearest town: Lulworth. From Bournemouth - take the A35 towards Dorchester, turning left onto the A351 towards Wareham. Turn onto the A352 signposted to Wool then follow the brown signs for Durdle Door.
12.30 pm	Dorset	Reach Lulworth Cove	Free	Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset
		Durdle Door	Free	Lulworth Cove to Durdle Door: 5 mins Nearest town: Lulworth
3.30 pm	Devon	Brixham-Lunch		Durdle door to Brixham: 2 hrs 30 mins Brixham: Breakwater Harbour and Marina
7.00 pm	St. Ives	Hotel check-in	Booked	Brixham to St Ives: 2 hrs 30 mins St Ives Bay Hotel, The Terrace, Saint Ives, TR26 2BP
	St. Ives	Dinner		Seafood cafe-45 Fore Street, St Ives TR26 1HE. Ocean Grill-The Wharf, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1LG Book table: +44 (0)1736 794004; +44 (0) 1736 799874
		Beachside B'day celebration! :)		Porthminster beach
Day 2, 17 Aug, Sat: St. Ives
8.30 am	St. Ives	Breakfast-hotel
		Hotel check-out	10.00 am
	St. Ives	St Ives Harbour	Free	Gaze out from St. Ives's harbor at Godrevy Lighthouse, made famous by novelist Virginia Woolf.
	St. Ives	Head to Porthmeor beach	Free
	St. Ives	Walk around the streets of St Ives
	St. Ives	Coffee at the Tate Ives Cafe	Free admission
	St. Ives	Chapel of St Nicholas	Free	on a tiny peninsula of land known locally as the Island, sits the pre-14th–century Chapel of St Nicholas.
	St. Ives	Lunch		Porthmeor Beach Cafe
		Coastal walk to Carbis Bay	Free	Bordered to the west by Porthminster Point and to the east by Hawke's Point, Carbis Bay Beach is one of the finest in the world. Award-winning Blue Flag 2012 beach with safe bathing beach surrounded by subtropical splendour. 30 mins walk
	Penzance	Hotel check-in		24 mins drive from St Ives Guest Lodge Penzance, The Promenade, TR18 4LY. +441736366882
	Penzance	Dinner		The Dock Inn, The Italian Kitchen at Newlyn, Mackerel Sky,  The Bay Restaurant, Samba cafe & grill
Day 3 18 Aug, Sunday: Penzance/Lizard/Padstow
9.00 am	Penzance	Hotel check-out
	Marzion	Breakfast		Philp's Cornish pasties-Marazion- 9am-3.45pm
	Marzion	St. Michael's Mount		10.30am-5pm. Photo op only Folly Field car park and the Slipway car park .
	Lizard Peninsula	Lizard point		The Lizard Lighthouse. Ann's Pasties 9:00am-2:00pm mainland Britain's most southerly point
1.00 pm	Hayle	Fruit picking at Trevaskis Farm	Free	40 mins from Lizard Point. 8 am-8 pm. Philp's Cornish pasties Trevaskis Farm, Gwinear , Hayle , TR27 5JQ. Call: 01209 713931  Shop: 01209 714009
3.00 pm	Padstow	Lunch	1 hr from Hayle	The Basement, Stein's Fish & Chips, Rojanos in the Square
7.30 pm	WSM	Handover laptop		2.5 hrs from Padstow 52 Selwood close, BS228LF (Close to Hutton Moor Leisure Centre)
10.00 pm	London	Car drop off-LHA		2.5 hrs from WSM