Days 13 and 14: Truro and and change of plan.

A glorious morning as we left the best (and best value - Bob) B & B on our trip.  There was quite a heavy frost but the sun soon felt warm.

We drove through stunning landscape, with foliage which could only be described as blazing in the sunshine, all the way to Truro.

 Belgravia House 1903
Another historic home, furnished and decorated in keeping with its history.  Breakfast was served on bone china with cut glass glasses and silver serving plates.  The food lived up to the place settings: blueberry juice, strawberries, raspberries, homemade yoghurt,  muesli and “muffins” ( zuchini and blueberry) followed by eggs florentine.....far too much for us!

Truro has one famous site and that's a huge park, right down town.  We walked the 2 k path to a waterfall but there was barely a trickle of water, despite the recent rainy weather.

I wasn't feeling too chipper this day so we asked if we could stay an extra day and decided to cut out the long drive we'd been planning to Anapolis Royal and have a break.  Luckily they could let us stay and by the following morning I'd had lots of much-needed sleep and felt much better.


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