Threeways Caravan Club Site at Marazion
Me, I’m not tight, just a little bit careful, so I do have some difficulty understanding why someone who has paid £10,000 upwards for a nice caravan with good washing facilities needs to stay on a caravan site with a superb toilet block.
Therefore, sites with minimal facilities and correspondingly low site fees in fantastic scenery get my vote every time, and why the Caravan Club site at Goldsithney near Marazion in Cornwall is such a gem.
Goldsithney is a small village two miles from Marazion, Cornwall’s oldest chartered town, but better known for being the car park for St Michael’s Mount
The members only site is four acres with sixty pitches in three main pitching areas. It is open in aspect, and on the edge of the village just past the school, which can cause a few traffic jams at 3.15p.m.There is no toilet block or shop but milk and papers are available to order and the fish and chip van calls twice a week. It isn't far to the village shop that supplies the other basics such as clotted cream and scones. Anything the village store can't supply can be bought at the superstores in Penzance, five miles away.
Situated as it is near the toe of Cornwall, there are miles of coast to explore without travelling far to get to them. Marazion and Penzance have safe sandy beaches, but if the Cornish mist is covering them, just head eight miles across the spine of Cornwall to the north coast and the beaches of St Ives or Godrevy which will probably be bathed in sunshine. Godrevy has the added bonus of a lighthouse and seals sunbathing on the rocks.
If lazing on a beach is not your thing then take advantage of the coastal path which runs right round the tip of Cornwall and provides good walking; a different coastal walk with spectacular views every day for a fortnight within a twenty miles radius would not be impossible.
A visit to the National Trust owned St Michael’s Mount involves a pleasant walk across the causeway at low tide and then a steep climb is well rewarded by the interior of the castle that has been modified to a mansion house. For a different slant on history visit the Levant or Geevor Mines, now a World Heritage Site, where you can see how the tin miners lived and died, and to see more of their lifestyle visit the Cornish Mines and Engines at Camborne. They are all vivid reminders of the appalling working conditions of our ancestors.
If you want to go further afield there are helicopter trips to the Isles of Scilly from nearby Penzance, and for a bit of culture try a visit to the museum in Penzance, or the Tate Gallery in St Ives. Finally for an evening with a difference take in a performance at the Minack theatre which has been cut out of the rock of the cliff face, but take a cushion as the seats get very hard by the end of the performance.
Jenny Sargeant |
