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years invited me to join him on a trip to Cornwall to visit the Eden Project. We made an early start, I picked him up at the station and drove us down making really good time - we arrived just after noon having stopped for coffee on the way. Lunch at the project was tasty: baked potato and hot bean salsa - I can recommend it! Fortified, we explored the biodomes. It has been a while since I went and for some reason it hadn't occurred to me that visiting it at this time of year, the thing I had most enjoyed about my previous visit (seeing citrus fruit ripening on the trees) would be out of season. 
I do find this sculpture impressive. The story of how the piece of rock was carefully chosen and specially quarried, etc, is interesting, too.
We went and booked in at the Travelodge then walked down to the local harbour where I snapped this attractive sailing boat (schooner?). Having stretched our legs, we returned to the Travelodge for a very tasty meal of ham, egg and chips, then drove back to the Eden Project for the Arts Cafe evening event.
It was a beautiful evening weather-wise, and the site looks pretty lit up at night. I'd been looking forward very much to the evening of live music but sadly it proved a disappointment. There was different music playing in each of three venues around the site, but it was so painfully loud that it was far too uncomfortable to sit near the source to listen and watch. The staff had been issued with ear defenders. I'd guess from the fact that there was a large clear area around the speakers at each of the venues that other guests also found the music to be too loud. People were clustering at the outskirts, but the problem then was that the different style of music from the neighbouring venue intruded.
We cut our visit short and went back to the blissfully quiet Travelodge.
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