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Lanhydrock |
It was a sunny Sunday and many people were enjoying the gardens of Lanhydrock. It was a short walk to the Victorian country home, which once was home to a big family.
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Lady in historic costume @ Lanhydrock |
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Dinner menu |
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Billiard for gentlemen @ Lanhydrock |
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Library with hand written books dating from 1509 |
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Long Gallery
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Afterwards, we drove to the coast again, soon reaching Fowey. There was a big parking from where it was a short walk into this little village at an estuary. We were looking for a Sunday roast, but were too late for that.
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Fowey Harbour |
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Fowey |
We wanted to go to Charlestown the next day, to visit the shipwreck museum, so we stopped on the way at Par, where we took a walk along the beach before we went to the Ship Inn, where we were allowed to spend the night.
The next day it was a short drive to Charlestown, where we had a walk around the old harbour and breakfast at the Pier House before we enjoyed the museum with an immense number of artefacts from ship wrecks.
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Charlestown Harbour |
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Charlestown harbour, used as scenery for some movies .. |
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historic boats @ Charlestown |
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Coins found at shipwrecks @ shipwreck museum, Charlestown |
We were heading now to the Lizard Peninsula but stopped first at Trelissick estate, where we wandered through the gardens and enjoyed the views.
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Trelissick Garden |
At Lizard, we found a still open campsite with great views of the coastline. We took a long walk along the cliffs and to the lighthouse, where we enjoyed the sunset before we made our way back home.
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Coast @ Lizard Peninsula |
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Sunset @ Lizard |
The next day, we drove along the coast until we reached St. Michael’s Mount, a similar island like Mont Saint Michel in France. It was low tide, so we could walk over the path to the island and visit the castle.
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St. Michael’s Mount |
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View from the castle to the footpath to the castle at low tide |
As the English schools had their midterm break, many families with children were visiting the castle and story tellers and a castle quest was set up for them.
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children watching the story teller |
We managed to take the walk back just before the tide came back. Otherwise, we would have needed to take a boat.
Shortly before we reached Land’s End, we stopped first at a 3000-year-old stone circle called the Merry Maidens and then at the Telegraph Museum in Porthcurno.
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Yoga @ Merry Maidens |
At this little bay, the first telegraph cable from America reached Great Britain and soon many more from different directions. Even today, many fibre cables through the ocean end here. The exhibition was very interesting, and especially the videos helped to understand the historic machines on display.
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Map of cable connections in 1890 |
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Telegraph Museum of Cable & Wireless |
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WWII short wave transceiver |
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used for worldwide morse communication in 1940 |
At the most western point of England, we stopped at another campsite for the night.
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Sunset and ham radio communication @ Lands End |
After we have now reached the most western point of England, we will follow the coast north before we will have to turn back. More next!