We had hired a small Corsa from EuroDrive in High Wycombe, that turned out to be a top of the range Mondeo! And so at just passed 3 we set of for Cornwall, Kirsty sleeping and me driving. We had an ample supply of food and CD's and it wasn't raining that much.

The drive down wasn't too bad, against all the warnings all the roads were relatively quiet, most people thought it was going to traffic mayhem. K woke about 6ish and I just keep asking if we were in the zone of totality yet, I felt like we should be on the equator with the driving time!

'Cause it was really quiet we found ourselves just driving right down to the centre line in Falmouth, I think we had both thought that we would get caught in traffic and just as long as we were in totality it would be okay, but hey we got right to the centre. 2 minutes and 3 seconds of night was heading our way.

Yeah, so it about 9 in the morning and we were in Falmouth, the eclipse wasn't until 11 am, so you can probably guess that we thought we were going to get stopped.

I decided to report in, the beauty of a mobile 'phone. Tell everyone that we were on the centre line in Falmouth, and because it was cloudy to get loads of people to tape the TV coverage for us!

We found a great, but cold, spot on the peninsula bit that sticks out of Falmouth, staring out into the English Channel and able to see around Falmouth Bay.

It was kind of a sit and wait job, but you could feel the expectations and excitement rising in everyone, 'cause it was mobbed by 10:30!

The darkness was really strange, as it started in did get colder, but the wind dropped away. It started by getting dull, it was cloudy and we didn't see the eclipse start, but you knew it was well underway when to light level began to drop.

And it got dark as night. I can truly say that it is going to be one of the memorable days of my life and I can see why people get 'hooked' on eclipse chasing. There is a sense of exhilaration and a fantastic feeling something unstoppable and permanent.

Perhaps the strangest thing was that I was laughing, it was awe, or something close to it.

As it began to lift, a really short, but immensly long 2 minutes people started cheering and laughing. It reminded me of something I had read, in history people used to make loud noises, shout and bang to scare away the beast that had blocked out the sun. Was cheering, whistling and shouting our own hangover from the 'old ways'?

The sky was fantastic, really storm like, dark and brooding. It was amazing.

I think that both K and I were in awe, we just sat there for a little while, kind of laughing and babbling about how good it was, fantastic, amazing...........

The attempted drive was a different, K was driving and basically it took us 6 hours to do 100 miles, in the end I was changing gears for her as she lost the ability to do anything!

Stopping at Safeway we had soup and rolls. And then I took over the driving, we headed for Glastonbury for some tea. It may seem some sort of strange direction to get from Falmouth the High Wycombe, via Glastonbury, but we were tired and on holiday and so nothing was going to stop us seeing Glastonbury. Somehow it seemed a really tranquil place, it was about 7ish when we got there, and really quiet. A lot of shops were closed with signs saying gone to eclipse! We ate in a lovely veggie restaurant, the name it lost in the mists (Glastonbury and mists?? Avalon??)

We left Glastonburt ay 8:25pm, after a delicious meal and a little wander, I am sure Redbull was involved somewhere, but it had been along day................

We got home at about 11:30, almost 19 hours after we left and we had covered some 800 or so miles. but it was so worth it. Really I can't express what I felt.