Black and White CornwallThis will be the last post from the Cornwall trip. Thanks everyone for looking! We are off to Ireland in October so you will be hearing from us again soon.
Black & White DevonshireHi All, Here are the Black and Whites for southern England. I'll do Cornwall itself next time. Hope you like them.
St Ives Day 6Saturday May 9th This would be our last day in Cornwall so we wanted to spend it wisely. We had to take a look the largest town in Cornwall, Truro. It has the last of the great gothic cathedrals built in England. And it also had a Saturday market!
The market was pretty tame. Not a single pig's head was on display. .
The bird on his head is not part of the sculpture.
Before heading back there was a quiet English village down the road, St. Clement, we wanted to check out. Most of the pictures below are Jeanne Marie's.
The rhododendron were in full bloom all over Cornwall.
One more destination awaited us before we departed the next day. Land's End. The westernmost point on the British Isles. We only had 20 minutes of free parking but the light gods were kind.
Back to London tomorrow and home on Monday. Thanks everybody for going with us. It was a great trip!! The Black and whites will be posted soon.
St Ives Day 5Friday May 8 We awoke to another gorgeous day. I still haven't shown you our view out the front window. Great location. We could walk to everything.
We had no specific plan for the day so we decided to take a train ride. The main rail line ends in St. Ives and they offer excursions up the coast.
In fact, with parking in St. Ives next to impossible, a lot of day trippers take the train to the beach. They can step from the station platform right into the sand.
The views from the train were gorgeous.
And I got more shots of the lighthouse.
The seals just lay there like they're dead. But we were confident they were not. Every few minutes their whiskers would twitch.
We arrived back in harbor with plenty of daylight left for more pictures. Just up the coast was another tin mine, Wheal Coates, patiently waiting for us to come up and photograph it.
Another sign of understated British humor.
St Ives Day 4Thursday May 7th Up and out early to really find some pictures of this beautiful town. I can't say I completely failed so you may get sick of looking at St. Ives.
Let's get the drone up.
But I can't just take pictures of St. Ives all day. We needed to get out for a little stretch of the legs. There was an interesting place nearby, an abandoned gunpower plant that has been slowly going back to nature.
After our hike we went looking for lunch. Somebody spotted on the map the place we had to go: Frogpool! They had a pub too! It was a conventional family centered establishment with good pub food.
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