By Land or Sea to an 800 Year Old Pub | Cornish Living

Good morning from Cornell, it feels so good so we are staying with my parents for two weeks taking care of the dogs a little. The feeling of having a garage would be enough. I only need a classic car there, but only a double garage. come down from the garden open the garage just the bike parked there I can't express how good the feeling is that we've been waiting for this day The blue sky feels like it's 16° I don't know what the temperature is, but it's just perfect perfect right I have a plan for today I'm really excited about this we're going to visit just 15 minutes away an 800

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old pub hidden by a stream has a fascinating history and it's multi award winning food.

I haven't really had breakfast, so I'm going to run there because I'm hungry, right? Let's hit the road on the Harley-Davidson fatbob the last time I rode it. It was a couple of days ago when I arrived in Cornwall, so let's see what these narrow Cornish streets are like and of course we'll take you with us. I mean, soak it up because you never know, with Cornal the weather is so changeable this might be the only day like this with a sky this blue, I mean this is the best thing ever oh, driving here is an event in itself, it feels like you have the roads to yourself and you are driving almost in a time before cars were just empty country roads with no markings on the road, nothing in any direction and you go on and on and wonder if there will be any development that you will end up accessing from Google Maps.

There seems to be literally just one pub somewhere down here and maybe a couple of houses scattered around, it's not even a village so look how nice this is, you can see houses on the other side of the water but the stream takes us We have to get to this side, our side of the water, but take a look at this stretch of houses here and there's water on both sides of the houses. They appear to be classic second homes for celebrities or very, very well-off people. Incredibly pretty houses, so we have about four more minutes and this road leads nowhere apart from the pub, it's literally a road to a pub and maybe two houses.

All this way here, you know, on a day like today, Cormel is. very, very almost impossible to beat. What is one of these? Oh, it's incredible, Pandora is 800

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s old. It has the best history for a name, so in 1787 there was a ship called the Bounty and this was a ship that was heading towards people like a tour and it was a ship that was heading to go and I think to find something like breadfruit, new fruits from all over the world that left in 8 in 1787, but a couple of years later there was a mutiny on the ship.

While he was at sea and the ship's captain was essentially kicked off the ship and the rest of the crew went on their merry way, it took the ship's captain a good year or so to finally make it back somehow. to Eng

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without a ship when he came back and the Navy found out about this, they immediately said, "Well, that's it, Captain Edwards, you're leaving and you're going to find these mutineers, you're going to bring them back and we were going to punish them, so Captain Edwards in about 1790 embarked on a ship called Pandora, tried to find these mutineers, but his ship, the Pand Dora, was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, more than half of the crew died and took Captain It took Edwards months and months to get back somehow.

He managed not only to survive the shipwreck, but also to get back to Eng

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, but that whole ordeal, the whole journey, of course, the lack of food, everything about it. with the shipwreck affected him for the rest of his life once he finally made it back to England he was tried in England for probably gross negligence for wrecking an incredibly valuable ship he had so many former ship captains basically saying no, we responded. by Captain Edwards. He should. He should not be summoned to court, he should not be found guilty of negligence, he was released and forgiven.

Rumor has it that legend, whatever you want to call it, says that after retiring from the Navy, Captain Edwards bought and owned this same pub and in honor of the ship Pandora he decided to change the name of this Pub to Pandora this is where it ends the history. This is a replica of the Pandora ship made in the year 1795, so almost 20 years after the real Pandora ship was built. A few years ago the owner of this pub ended up selling this boat, so this boat, although it spent most of its life here in the pub for about 40 years, left the pub and went into a private collection, however, the person who used to own this boat is done.

I felt bad and thought no, you know what the proper resting place of this Pandora model ship should be here at the Pandora Inn, so after 40 years of absence from the pub, there is a place of honor for the model 1795 from Pandora's ship, one more. Right before I give the order, Monica looks daggers at me because we're both hungry, but I heard how fascinating the lives of the people who used to live in this era are, so Captain Edwards was listening to the wars he served in the War of the Seven Years, the American Revolution, the War, the Battle of Saint Lucia and also the French Revolutionary War.

It's a miracle anyone ended up

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past 40 back then. Well, that was amazing. Pandora Inn is multi multi multi. Award winning pub so it's no secret it's not cheap either, costing £19 for a meal but when you take everything into account, the exquisite first class food, the brilliant service, the stunning location, this is the jetty and I think that we will get it. a coffee to conclude the video in 20 minutes, but when you take everything into account, it's worth it because the experience, everything that goes into the food, the coffee, the beer, whatever you drink, is worth it.

A very, very, very special place. Now we're just following the lane along the boardwalk because I think there's a path that goes all the way to the next cove so I'm curious to see what it's like there and then we'll get back on the bike and head out. At home most of the houses here seem to have a nice plot of land and then across the road they all seem to have or 80% of them seem to have their own little dock areas where they can have a boat or something . type of garden across the road take a look at this one note this is I would say close to Prime Cornish real estate here it's very rare to see something like this.

I mean, how many decades has it been abandoned? I don't show the address, but there's a little mailbox here full of old energy bills that have clearly been left here for a long time and it's just a one-story bungalow with a green door and windows, but it's been completely overtaken by Ivy and also It is on a large plot of land, why would anyone leave a house with this amazing oceanfront plot close to a front line view? Why would they leave her abandoned like this? In fact, you know what, oh, I would give anything to get in.

I just noticed that this front door is open and there is a bookshelf, well not a bookshelf, there were shelves nailed to the wall and it looks like if I'm right the books are still there on that little shelf. You have no idea. How tempted I am to pass through this fence and take a look inside. There's Tech Ally surely barging in if I don't have Jimmy answer the door. I can't do it, but I'm so tempted. You could almost get a little dizzy from this. We are right on the pier so the pub is there.

Just look at this. The window on the far right, you can see it falling to the right side. and imagine that pub is 800 years old, it used to be an old farmhouse before it was a pub, but imagine the things it must have seen the smugglers discussing things within those walls, all the stories it must have and all these parts here. The chains you see on either side I initially didn't know what they were, but they are small jetty areas for different boats to stop at, so the whole time we have been sitting here we have seen boats coming and going. walk up, then walk, have a pint, have some food, enter by land or sea, it's an amazing place and this is what makes the Cornish coast so nice, there are so many different Coes, it's not a stretch of Really long beach, there are just Coes and inlets going around everywhere so it's amazing to explore.

I think I might have to buy a small boat and explore the cove a bit. Is incredible. This really is. I mean, there's no doubt. This is cornal. Is very. very fine, I mean, take a look at the coffee just before you finish, which is barista level coffee served in a pub. I'm impressed, okay, we'll finish it there. Thank you very much everyone for coming. A brilliant week everyone and we'll see you next time.