The Cornish Coast

The trouble with constant traveling is that one day seems to melt into another leaving one trying to recall when, exactly, one did this town, that trail, which castle.... Especially tough with a slowly disappearing memory....

Today, though, we ended up at Tintagel, the supposed location of the (legendary?) Kind Arthur's castle. The location is quite stunning: a rocky outcrop of an "island" attached to the coast with ruins of an ancient castle. The town itself is another in a series of quaint little villages - lots of stone buildings, narrow streets. It's where we will be camping for the night.

Working backwards, we visited Port Isaac, just down the coast, earlier in the day. Aside from being another very scenic fishing village on the coast, Port Isaac is the location where the Doc Martin TV series was filmed. We wandered around the village for a couple of hours and managed to find a couple of the buildings that appeared in the scenery shots. I will post more pictures of this....later.

Our first stop of the day was Trerice, an Elizabethan house and gardens, although the land and buildings date from much earlier - apparently the property was listed in the Domesday Book. [Educational moment: my partner tells me that William the Conquerer did this as the first census for taxation purposes back in 1066 or 1090 or 1100 or so - I'll take her word for that - I'm a science guy].

Backing up to the previous day, we spent all of it hiking part (a very small part) of the South Coast Trail near St Ives. Very scenic (I know, I used that word before - I'm running out of descriptors) but very slow hiking. A fair bit of too-ing and fro-ing and up and down, rocky (did I mention how many rocks there are in this area...). Regardless, a sunny day and an excellent way to spend a day.

I think that pretty much covers the past 2 days. Other than hopes for part of a day hiking more of the coastal trail near here, the next "stop" is southern Wales, probably part of a day's drive from here.