A morning spent thawing out after an absolutely freezing night in an ice-covered tent, followed by a cycle to The Eden Project . . .
4thMarch 2010
The Boy in The Bubble [Paul Simon]
The Eden Project, so good I thought I would go in twice. Actually if you pay to go in once and get your card registered you can go as many times as you like for the rest of the year. Well worth it too and I particularly enjoyed the very tame Grey Wagtails in the tropical rainforest. Well, that and the Cornish pasty.
The immense bubbles looked extremely impressive from the surrounding high hills.
Inside was even more impressive as one could walk from tropical rainforest to desert and even see some of the birds associated with the former.
Outside
the bubbles, the gardens are fabulous and I particularly enjoyed seeing all of
the Climate Change displays, the Eco gardens and the insect plant areas; taking
lots of photos in order to remember the details for my future gardens and work
at schools.
After spending the whole of the afternoon at the project, a very cold night was
spent in the tent again, adjacent to the Project grounds. I chose to set the
tent up in a hawthorn copse near to the project and watched Badgers walking
around under the light of the nearby car parks. Tawny Owls hooted as I settled
down.
19.8 miles
978 feet up 1,535 feet down
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