This Woman Was Here

This morning we decided to explore the Newport market.

 

The butcher shop offered wild boar, venison, pheasant, and partridges among other game. We bought fresh ravioli (one salmon dill and one goat cheese, spinach and chives) and several fresh pasties (sausage roll, spinach/goat cheese, potatoes leek, bacon mushroom, and the traditional Cornish pasty).

 

 

 

 

 

As the boys were standing around outside, meat was delivered. The deliverymen hoisted quarters of beef over their shoulders and away they went. We know it’s fresh and it’s local.

 

 

 

 

Then we walked up the hill to St, Mary’s church, built in the 1740’s an visited by John Wesley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On our way down the hill, we saw this lovely Welsh pony. They were bred to haul coal and slate out of mines. This one clearly has a better life.

 

After a lunch of our Cornish pasties, washed down with Guinness, we headed off to Porthgain, a quarry that first quarried slate, then exported brick, then road rock. It is a tiny settlement surrounding a harbor where boats were loaded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These lovely flowers grew in the slate wall. The walking path above the quarry was some of the most beautiful country I’ve seen

 

 

 

 

Every rise brought us new and startlingly beautiful vistas.