Holidays in south-west England August 08 to 22, 2009
Tuesday August 11
On Tuesday we went off to explore the Penwith Peninsula, that's the western part of Cornwall.
We started in St-Ives but couldn't find a short-term parking lot, so we didn't stay.
The cows are somewhere between St-Ives and St-Just, it was so foggy that you couldn't even see the sea when you were on the coastal road.
The church I believe is in St-Just (where tin used to be mined, hence the name of the famous pewter jewellery).
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Cape Cornwall is just north of famous Land's End which you can see from there. There's just a parking lot and a house, not all the horrible stuff they put up at Land's End, and therefore it's much nicer. Plus, you get a herd of miniature Highlanders who were hired by the National Trust to return the flora to its natural state.
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That red brick tower was sponsored by Heinz ketchup...
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Land's End - I hope John O'Groats is not as commercialised (but then I bet they get a lot fewer visitors up there...)
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That's Longships Lighthouse out there.
I can't help it, I prefer la Pointe du Raz...
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Now we're going back towards Penzance.
On our way up to the Minack Theatre, there was a long queue of people trying to park their cars (even at the theatre, which is why they charge a high parking fee that is deducted from your entrance fee) to go to the beach. We thought that given the run of people, the beach looked fairly empty (and very beautiful). Until we advanced a bit further...
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The theatre itself is built right onto the cliff. You don't want to be afraid of heights when you go and see a play there (something I'd dearly love to do, preferrably Shakespeare...)
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This is St Michael's Mount across the Mount's Bay from Penzance.
It looks like a bad copy of the Mont St-Michel across the Channel, and once the castle or whatever it is closes, there's nothing else to see here.
And at high tide you can't walk over, I understand.
Sorry, once again, I prefer the Brittany version...
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