Lands End

Today is Monday

The weather today is similar to yesterday, overcast, wet and now with the added bonus of wind.
We had a full English breakfast and then checked some emails and generally had a lazy start to the day.We didn't leave until 11.30 when the Motel tested the fire alarm without warning.

Our first destination was St Ives.



The weather cleared for us at St Ives.
The first thing we noticed was the sign at the beginning of the town that said 'Do not follow your Sat Nav, follow the road signs'


We followed the signs to the top of a mountain where the car park was and then abseiled down. It would seem that everyone living in and visiting England decided that today was a good day to visit St Ives. The most amazing thing was that these streets are also used by traffic, some of them tourists following their Sat Navs and looking a little concerned.
We saw the local policeman drive through the crowd and wondered what reaction he would get if he turned his siren on.

 


Eventually we made it to the beach and had our picture taken.
Steven then had to go to a shop to buy some clothes because he didn't bring enough with him.
Our camper van is starting to look like a Chinese laundry.

 St Ives and it's beach, and it's people.

We left St Ives and headed for Penzance stopping at a look out on the way, a small clearing in the weather allowed some views over the Cornish fields.
The fuel light came on and 6 miles from Penzance Steven insisted on returning to St Ives to look for petrol. After driving around the towns narrow streets for a while we asked directions and were told that there was no petrol in St Ives and we should go to Penzance for some.

All Tammy wanted to do in England was see a thatched cottage. She has seen about a thousand of them now, but she still thinks they are great. I had to talk her out of taking this one home with her.


We got to Penzance and bought some fuel, then thought we had better go to Lands End.
The first thing we found there was a carpark with a $6.00 fee and an enormous souvenir shop, 3 of them.
Actually there is some stunning scenery and a huge National Park. We checked out the Iron age castle fort and all of the wild flowers, mostly heather.
We did a bit of walking and took in the amazing coastline, took some photo's and headed up the road to Mousehole. Couldn't resist.

Steven Stands at the bottom end of England.













The rugged coast of Lands End 


 





The roads into and around Mousehole are ridiculously narrow and winding. 
This road was signed as being 6' 6" about 1.95 metres wide, the camper is 1.8 wide and it's a two way street.

We really wanted to do some exploring and drove around the entire town looking for somewhere to park, in the end we had to give up and move on.

 As we left Mousehole we drove through some country lanes that were ridiculously narrow and winding, with the added challenge of having high plants on the edges so that you couldn't see what was coming.

On the way Steven found some more stones. These are the Merry Maidens, a bronze age circle of 19 stones that are 19 girls turned to stone for dancing on a Sunday.
Fair thing too.

On we went.

We saw a caravan park and pulled in for the night, no idea where we are, but it's down the bottom somewhere, and it's got WiFi....