Notice Board Date:- 5th May 2008

Vouchers:-

We are happy to supply vouchers for a stay at The Old Rectory, These can be open ended so that family or friends can come at a time to suit them. This can be combined with tickets for The Eden Project or one of the local Restaurants if you wish. Please let us know and we will try to help.

Green Tourism Business Award

After a tough inspection where all enviroment issues are looked at we are delighted to have achieved a Gold Award from the Green Tourism for Business. For Sustainable Tourism.

The Availability calendar:-

On the Rooms and Prices page is updated every day that we take a booking. You can see which rooms are available on any night.

Secure credit card server:-

For people who wish to pay a deposit by credit card over the web we now have a secure server – This link can be found on the Rooms and Prices page under Book now fill in the details and the Secure credit card server should open up.

Improvements during this winter:-

We have been busy during the winter months with The Old Stable. Completely re-decorated along with new curtains and it will have a new king size bed .

WIFI has also been fitted and can be received throughout the house.

We have provided a small fridge with fresh milk available all the time, or you can use it to chill your own drinks, in the guest sitting room along with a DVD player to go with the TV.

To arrive here by Air:-

Planes from Stanstead arrive at Newquay twice daily. The last plane gets in at 9.00pm and Car hire is available from the airport at this time and we are only 50 minutes drive away.

To arrive here by Train:-

There are two options either leave the train at Exeter and hire a car or catch the bus to Boscastle / Camelford. Alternatively take the train to Bodmin Parkway and enjoy the ride along the Devon coast by the sea and through Brunels Bridge over Plymouth Sound and then the Viaducts in Cornwall. Chris works at Bodmin so if you arrive late afternoon we can usually arrange free collection on a weekday. Alternatively you can hire a Taxi or catch a bus.

To arrive here by Bus:-

There are 3 buses every day from Exeter to Camelford where we can collect you.

St Juliot Church:-

The new Thomas Hardy memorial window by Simon Whistler in St Juliot Church is finished and is a stunning piece of work and well worth a visit.

The Thomas Hardy Society:-

Claire Tomalin has just had published her book on Thomas Hardy and was featured on The South Bank Show. We have a DVD of the programmer if you would like to see it.

Cornish All Blacks (Launceston Rugby Club)

We were thrilled when the Cornsih All Blacks were promoted to Rugby's National Division One! We now hope to stay there! Unfortunately not!! but hope to bounce back next year and enjoy the standard of Rugby we have enjoyed this season.

Chris and Sally with Josh Lord - Vice Captain

Chris and Sally along with another B and B (Trerosewill Farm) in Boscastle known as bestofboscastle.com(B&B's) are pleased to be sponsoring Josh Lord a local Cornish Rugby player who is the Cornish All Blacks, Captain and has been the player's player of year for the last 2 seasons.

After putting this owl box up eight years ago we have been rewarded with this!! We do what we can to promote wildlife here as well as the looking at the green issues please see our sustainable page for what we do here at the The Old Rectory. In the garden we have our ups and downs, but this is one of the high lights this year so far and the various bird boxes scattered around the garden have nests in them.

We have also decided that from the start of 2007 every 100th guests staying here will be invited to plant a tree here at The Old Rectory. Adrian and Lucy were our 1st tree planters. We expect to plant 6 trees a year will you be helping to plant one of them?