Well as I sit typing this I am sitting on my pitch at Tregarton with.....pooch asleep at my feet! It's his first time ever away with us and so far, (fingers crossed as this is only our 3rd full day here), so VERY good he's been too. A real star tbh and while we brought a tie out stake and ten foot cable with us, it's been toooooo wet weatherwise to use them until today when it's brightened up. Still blooming nippy though.
So, while we sat outside the awning today he was fastened to one of the rubber ring bits along the lower edge of the awning, (he's only a little dog so not particularly strong), and we're not leaving him alone out there anyhoo so no probs. He's lapping up allll the attention from passers by who want to come and pet him and talk to him and he thinks he's a King .
As far as the campsite goes, most of the time he hasn't even made it to the dog exercise field to do his business, (but it's being cleared up wherever he does it anyhoo), but has enjoyed a wander around it still on his lead and meeting loads of other pooches. He's even been tethered outside the shop with no probs or barking and he'd never experienced that before anywhere so he's being a perfect tin tent companion.
Mevagissey itself is fine for walking pooches so long as you're always constantly aware of the traffic through the village where everybody is also walking, (you have to see it to understand what I mean if you've never been before), and you can always sit outside to eat and drink at The Wheelhouse and the other place, the name of which escapes me coz it was only done new a couple of years ago and we've only ever eaten in there once last year but it does have the outside area, (shame the weather's been such cr*p so far this time though or our choices would be even larger).
As it was me who convinced hubby to bring pooch with us and not risk leaving him with my Mum and her Alzheimers again, I'm being over careful about me takinng him for his regular loo walks, drying him off thoroughly in the awning before letting him in the tin tent but funnily enough, I'm finding that hubby is taking him out more and more so that I'm hardly getting a chance!!!!! Our son and daughter-in-law are also here for our first week so they're also doing doggy duties without being asked or expected to too!!!
All in all, I am soooooooo very pleased that we've been able to bring him with us so that I can really enjoy my holiday, (inspite of the August washouts), and not constantly be worrying about whether or not my Mum's remembered to feed him or accidentally let him out into the street forgetting that he's there. Phew!
There are loads of dogs on Tregarton this week, might be even more, (or less), next too and nobody on the site seems to moan about well behaved pooches. Don't reckon we'll be taking Otto along to the dog friendly Carhays beach just yet though in this weather
Don't want to speak too soon or loudly but.......at this very moment.....there's a golden orb shining in the skyOhhhh if that could be the start of things to come for the rest of our hols.
Btw, we've got a hardstanding pitch so that at does at least cut down a wee bit of the trundling in mud malarky a tiny bit.
We've stayed at Heligan Woods in the past but without our own pooch and there is a sweet little dog walk along the side of there but if I had the choice, (which we did for this year except that we'd already booked this pitch while we were here last year), I would have opted for Tregarton simply because it has a great disabled hut thingy which is handy for me and it has a pool and well....the people who run it are just soooo pleasant and helpful. Makes alllll the difference.
I'll be doing a review as soon as this holiday is over. Now I'll be able to look forward to next years too knowing that our pooch is so adaptable.
You'll have a great time tsp and your pooch. You won't find it quite so busy in September either so a little less fraught to wander around Mevagissey itself. Sorry I can't comment on Gorran coz we haven't taken Otto there yet. Maybe tomorrow.
He enjoyed the St. Ewe Fayre on Sunday and Truro yesterday
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Hippychick
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Topic: Tregarton Park and Gorran
