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Yesterday we took the bus over to Falmouth, a small port town about an hour and half from Penzance. Besides being located in the worlds third largest natural harbour, it is also home to a fantastic National Maritime Museum, and some huge drydocks.

 

Starting in the 1680's and running for over 130 years, Falmoth was home to the "The Falmouth Packet", the British Empire's first ocean going mail service, with dedicated saling ships called "packets" which carried almost nothing but a few bags of mail on trips lasting longer then 100 days.