Penzance to Land's End

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We arrived in Penzance, famous because of Gilbert and Sullivan, and left the car under this gull so we could find it again. After checking into the Longboat Inn on Market Jew Street, we decided to head to Land's End while we still had daylight.



Another place with extreme tides. Good or bad for piracy?

A missed turnoff had us in Mousehole, a charming village with two way roads somewhat more narrow than your average American bike lane. I don't have any pictures of Mousehole because I was occupied with using my psychic powers to keep the car from crashing into the various vertical walls and other objects that make up the sides of the roads (my brother got to drive this leg, bless him). We were keen to find a circle of stones known as the "Merry Maidens."


Out of Mousehole the roads widened considerably, to about the width (not the length) of a bus, which by the way there were lots of, roaring by us as we cringed our car into the hedges as best we could.


We pulled over into a farm because we saw a standing stone.


I saw lots of new lichen on this trip, did I tell you? Much more later.


The Merry Maidens. My brother will have much nicer photos of this, having found a shortcut to the site.


Then, we got to Land's EndCHANGE CAROUSEL

Comments

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

dude.
the last picture.
you are RIGHT AT the minack theatre. RIGHT AT.

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

We actually turned around in the theatre parking lot. Not exploring this spot a little more is one of my few regrets from the trip. That, and the damnable hat.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM SERIOUSLY FUCKING APPALLED. LIKE BEYOND WORDS.

http://cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com/743171.html#cutid1

omg my mind is completely blown. WHY WOULD YOU NOT GO AND SEE THE THEATER? WHY????

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

Mostly timing. We got there between the time you could tour it during the day and when they were reopening it for the evening's play. If we'd seen a play we'd have had to drive back on those tiny roads in the dark.

You're appalled and you haven't even seen the hat.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

oh christ.

[bosoxmom.livejournal.com]

Breathtaking photos! Thanks for sharing them all!!

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the people are in the 2nd picture, for scale; I'm still not convinced they're not Lilliputians hanging around a toy boat pond.