Looe Lifeboat

Just 4 cottages to the left of our cottage and on the river is Looe lifeboat station. This photo is of the day it opened in 2006 ( the old lifeboat house is now a cafe) There are never usually crowds like this at the Lifeboat station! The doors are always open and when there is not an emergency, volunteers will show you around and you can just wander in and look at the lifeboat. We regularly paddled in the slipway especially when on the way back from the beach with sandy feet!

We have never seen the lifeboat turn out to an emergency ......yet.

Ice-Cream on the Pier!

Bubblegum ice-cream on the Banjo Pier!

Jumping off the Banjo Pier

Jumping off the Banjo Pier is strictly forbidden for Safety reasons.....and none of the Cornwall2010 girls would ever even consider this......not least because he got into loads of trouble......

but it does make an amazing picture!

Banjo Pier

A pier is a "walkway over water" and most seaside holiday piers are covered with traditional pier activities like amusements and rides. The Pier in Looe is very different and is a pier named because of its shape. It separates the beach area from the river and stops anyone in the water on the beach from straying into the path of the fishermen's boats and pleasure boat rides moving up the river to Looe Harbour.

At the end is a round with seating and a light to help boats navigate at night. There is a great view from the end of passing boats and if you're lucky you might see the odd seal.

The pier was built in 1890 and was designed to stop the sand from the beach travelling across the channel into the river and making it hard for boats to pass along.

There are no sides, no safety rails just a path and although it looks mildly scary to walk along, it isn't really and its quite wide. If there is a very high tide, or bad weather there is a gate at the beginning that the Coastguard shuts and no-one is allowed on. Its safe really! There is a fabulous ice cream shop near the start of it ( bubble gum or lemon meringue flavours were our favourites last summer!) and the walk to the end is just long enough to eat them.

Inside Photos

The lounge - for DVDs and popcorn after long day on the beach!

Girls Bedroom No1

Girls Bedroom No2

Bathroom - One of 2 bathrooms both with big showers but no baths!

Kitchen/dining room

Rest of the Lounge.

Holiday Home!

This is the beach that is right in front of the cottage.......and this is the cottage.....

The Cottage

The cottage is just behind an ice-cream shop on the beach at Looe. The arrow shows the roof of the cottage.

It has no front garden and no back garden and used to be used by Fishermen but is now let out for holidays

Who needs a garden when the beach is there? No need to get changed on the beach - just get ready at home and walk out of the door and go swimming - and straight back into a hot clean shower afterwards!

Holiday in Looe, Cornwall

The holiday planning starts here!

We leave Saturday 10th July 2010 and come home Saturday 17th July 2010
We will be staying in Looe, Cornwall, a small fishing village on the south coast of Cornwall in a fisherman's cottage about 10 steps from the beach.

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