A pasty is a baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall and the men who worked in the tin mines. It is made by placing an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, on one half of a flat shortcrust pastry circle, folding the pastry in half to wrap the filling in a semicircle and crimping the curved edge to form a seal before baking. In Cornwall the pasty must be formed in the shape of a “D” with the crimping to the side. The miners had a complete meal that could be easily carried and eaten without utensils and could stay warm for several hours, and if it did get cold, it could easily be warmed up on a shovel over a candle. The pasty was side crimped so the miner might hold the edge of the pastry so his dirty fingers (possibly including traces of arsenic) did not touch his food or his mouth. The edges of the pasty were thrown away. Often pasties were marked at one end with an initial, so the miner could recognize his pasty if it was not eaten all at once. There is a belief that the pastry on a good pasty should be strong enough to withstand a drop down a mine shaft, and the barley flour that was usually used did make hard dense pastry.
The Skys Diner was packed everyday and was also busy with tourists taking out shopping bags full of pasties!
The Pasties
Warrens Bakery, St Ives, Cornwall
The traditional Cornish pasty, is filled with beef, sliced or diced potato, swede (also known as yellow turnip or rutabaga ) and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, and is baked. Today, the pasty is the food most associated with Cornwall. It is regarded as the National Dish and accounts for 6% of the Cornish food economy. And Warrens is the Oldest Cornish Pasty Maker in the World!
Philps Pasties, St Ives
At Philps Pasty you can eat in, take out, or you can get your pasties by Post! Everyone’s needs met! See you again tomorrow in St Ives!
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways! St Ives, the rustic, charming, seaside town has so many restaurants tucked in here and there! And to our great surprise the food is very good quality and Very, Very, Did I say Very ? Reasonably Priced! No wonder from sunup to sundown the masses are flocking to St Ives! There are large groups of families here to sun and spend a day at the beach………and then Eat. There are retired folks coming from their camper vans to spend their day…… and then Eat! There are folks staying at the large spa on the hill and coming into St Ives for the day……. to Eat. And then once the sun goes down it is quiet and…… we Eat! I never saw any foolishness in the streets (AKA drunks) and I never saw a policeman either. This is the Family Town! No doubt about it. It is made to enjoy! Now let’s look at some more Eateries!
S H Ferrell & Son Bakery, St Ives
There are over 20 bakeries in St Ives! Just try to pick your favorite! I bet you will have a hard time!
The Tea Room, St Ives
The Tea Room, St Ives
The Tea Room, St Ives
The Tea Room, St Ives
I couldn’t get a picture of The Tea Room outside because it would only show a line of people waiting to get in! Get there early and it is worth the wait for an outside table with a view of the beach! As you can see from the pictures they serve more than tea! We ate there more than once too!
St Ives Harbour View Restaurant, St Ives
St Ives Harbour View Restaurant, St Ives
That’s an Understatement!!!
Look up and down every small lane! You will find the most interesting places tucked away!
The Lifeboat Inn, St Ives
The Mex, St Ives
The Mex meets your burrito, fajitas, BBQ ribs, chili fix!
Bumbles Tea Room, St Ives
Love the Map on Bumbles Windows!
Olives Cafe, St Ives
I love the fish railing at Olives!
Peppers Pizza, St Ives
Peppers Pizza, St Ives
Did I say YUMMY or what?
The Cornish Deli, St Ives
We LOVED the Cornish Deli and ate there more than once. I was so busy talking to the folks in there I never got a picture of the food! However, my favorite was their homemade crab sandwich!
The Golden Lion Restaurant and Beer Garden, St Ives
And you must not miss the beer garden! As you can see there are oodles of choices to eat at in St Ives! But we MUST have the famous Cornish Pasty! More on that tomorrow!
I went on a lovely Secret Garden Tour in St Ives and here are some more of the photos! First let’s go down this narrow passageway! And through the door! What will we find here?
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives, Cornwall, UK
This is just the most charming garden behind the door and off the beaten path!
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
This is what you do with old bed springs!
St Ives Secret Gardens
Old forgotten treasures add charm to the garden, don’t you think?
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
A Secret Garden needs a place to sit and ponder!
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
And finally a Very Important Reminder!
Very Important!
St Ives, Cornwall
Let’s go up this way next! See you tomorrow in St Ives!
I’ve got lots of doors from St Ives!!!! So here are some doors and some cottages thrown in to boot! Fantastic place for DOORS! For most of these doors Mind Your Head and Mind the Gap!
St Ives, Cornwall
Notice that many of the doors in these pictures are surrounded by pipes of some kind!
St Ives, Cornwall
Red seems to be a very popular color here for a door!
St Ives, Cornwal
St Ives, Cornwall
Many doors come with tiny, tiny cottages!
St Ives, Cornwall
Many doors have fancy stuff on them!
St Ives, Cornwall
And some have tell-all signs and door knockers! This sign says “Dog” and the knocker is a wolf.
St Ives, Cornwall
Some have fancy knockers and a door handle a foot off the ground!
St Ives, Cornwall
Some have fancy covers!
St Ives, Cornwall
And some are just darling!
St Ives, Cornwall
Something tells me the door frame was added much later!
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
Some just never want to give up the boat!
St Ives, Cornwall
And some never want to be painted!
St Ives, Cornwall
And some are salty and crusted!
St Ives, Cornwall
And some have fancy wrought iron AND studs!
I hope you enjoyed this weeks doors from St Ives in Cornwall, UK! More to come next week from St Ives!
This is just one of many photos in the Thursday Door Collection featured by Norm2.0! Won’t you join in or take a peak at all the doors?
The Gate to the Garden at a Victorian Terraced House, St Ives
I have been pondering and came up with this…… St Ives is like a US football stadium, only cut down the middle lengthwise. There is the sea on one side and half of the playing field is the beach. The bleachers and stands are the wobbly, wonky, cobbled, twisting lanes that go to the rim. Once you are on the rim you will discover the large parking lot and the cemetery! Then it’s all downhill again, but with less lanes, straight to another albeit bigger beach. With that said, now that you know the layout of St Ives, it was a marvelous weekend for me because some of St Ive’s secret gardens were open for viewing for a charity fundraising! So all is not lost on the garden front!
First, I walked up a Slight hill to see the gardens at the Victorian terraced houses! Let’s go in this gate!
The Gate to the Garden at a Victorian Terraced House, St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives, Cornwall
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The maroon-wine colored florets look like they are made of wood!
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives, Cornwall
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
No Hawkers No Circulars!
The gardeners in most of these lovely terraced gardens were elderly gents!
The Road to the Victorian Terraces
Now which overhead line goes to which house? It would be a challenge on that pole!
The Victorian Terraces at St Ives, Cornwall
Some terraces had a garden front and some folks wanted a teeny, tiny space to park their car!
The Rose Blush on the Corner!
A Cacti in the Crack, St Ives, Cornwall
Wrap Around the Corner, St Ives, Cornwall
A Wall of Greenery, St Ives, Cornwall
There were several gardens on this lane, but we’ll explore some more on other lanes too! See you in the garden! Enjoy!
I got over the HILL thing and decided not to leave our cozy cottage and St Ives. I never went back up or down that hill until our stay was up! We soon found out there is lots to see and do here! I loved the scenery! Here are a few days of exploring the beach!
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Conrwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
I did come on this vacation as part of my English Garden Tour, so is there a garden to explore in St Ives, since my traveling to outside gardens has been foiled? The Dreaded Hill AGAIN! The garden fairies have come to my aid! See you tomorrow in the garden or should I say Gardens!
The best thing you can have on a vacation is a sense of humor. After exploring Agatha Christie’s home at Greenway, we had a much longer day than expected and then continued on with the drive to St Ives in Cornwall. My sense of humor was nipped in the bud as soon as we got there.
We had signed a lease for a fisherman’s cottage located on the flat part of St Ives and near the old historic area. The cottage came with a parking spot which they advertised as a “must have” since parking was at a premium. This was their advertisement;
A beautiful town centre 17th century stone cottage tucked away in a quiet cobbled street. Lovingly restored and completely refurbished in 2013 to an exceptionally high standard – the cottage has all the comforts of a bijoux boutique hotel with the freedom to do as you please! Cornish Cottage is a 2 minute level stroll to St Ives harbour, restaurants, cafes, galleries, shops and beaches. Steeped in history and full of original charm and character with wonky walls, a wood burning stove with cornish granite fire surround, granite coins, window seats and exposed beams. Parking space for one car. Underfloor heating and gas central heating. Delicious Cornish Cream Tea or surprise welcome pack awaits guests on arrival! We regret the cottage is not suitable for children. Sorry – no pets allowed.
Things we were not told about…
1. The parking space was a mile away……. up or down, however you want to look at it…….on a 25% grade……….OMG! Who would walk that everyday?
The good thing about arriving at the top was the view! The cemetery had one of the best views in town!
The Cemetery in St Ives, Cornwall
The Cemetery in St Ives, Cornwall
2.Behind the cottage was a Fish&Chips establishment with a pub……….the smell of used,rancid grease heating up to fry the fish at 0600 was unbelievable!
3. About 0630 every morning the lorry came to deliver the metal casks of beer to the pub…….. rolling barrel after barrel into the pub! The delivery entrance for the pub was right next to our quaint little cottage!
4. After the beer lorry left, the trash man would pull up to get all the glass beer bottles. Clang, clang clang, dumping hundreds of bottles into the truck!
The Tale of the Cottage and the BINS, St Ives, Cornwall
5. The road next to the cottage, also the main road to the parking areas of St Ives, was frequented day and night by tourists whose conversations we could hear without trying! Double glazed windows would have been nice!
The Cottage Window Overlooking Main Tourist Walk, St Ives, Cornwall
The Main Tourist Walk to Parking in St Ives, Cornwall
6. It has been a long time since I was in a beach town and I forgot the sound the seagulls make all night and day when they are nesting! OMG! This is the sound, just add hundreds of birds at the same time!
The Seagulls, St Ives, Cornwall
The Seagulls, St Ives, Cornwall
Now the good bits were……….once I got use to pretending I was among the pirates, heave ho and a bottle of rum and all that!
The cottage was fantastic!
The Fisherman’s Cottage, St Ives, Cornwall
The Fisherman’s Cottage, St Ives, Cornwall
The Fisherman’s Cottage, St Ives, Cornwall
The Fisherman’s Cottage, St Ives, Cornwall
This may be the first time we’ve Ever been to a vacation spot and never left the spot! Did I ever make it up that hill again? Stay tuned! More tomorrow from St Ives!
Let’s take a walk through the gardens at Greenway! What’s through this doorway?
Let’s Look Here First, Greenway
Tennis Anyone?
Or this one?
A Walk Through the Greenway Gardens
The Wildflower Bank at Greenway
The Walkway at Greenway
The Flowers at Greenway
The Flowers at Greenway
The Flowers at Greenway
The Flowers at Greenway
This Doorway takes us to the Peach House!
The Peach House at Greenway
The Walkway to the Peach House
The Peach House
I decided to take a little break and sit on one of the benches that overlooked the grounds around the Peach House. I soon had a little friend! He would come down from the tree and talk to me and as soon as someone would start to come close to us he would fly back up into the tree. As soon as the intruders were gone, back he came to talk to me! He flew up and down for over fifteen minutes!
My Overhead Shot of the Tree Where My Bird Friend Hid
My Bird Friend
The Vegetable Garden and Greenhouses at Greenway
The Area Beyond the Wall is Called the Plantation, at Greenway
Here is the Fountain Garden.
The Fountain Garden at Greenway
The Pet Cemetery at Greenway
And the pet cemetery!
A Look at the Restaurant and the Gift Shop Area at Greenway
One last look at the converted stables that are now the restaurant, garden shop and gift area at Greenway.
The Flowers at Greenway
The Flowers at Greenway
The Gardens at Greenway are not formal. They are restful, flowing, and carefree. Just like the holiday home for Agatha and her family was meant to be! I hope you enjoyed your walk! See you tomorrow!
The Travel Lady In Her Shoes 