Holiday Time Adventures Part 2: Cornwall!

Right. After spending the night in Bristol, I caught the train back to London to meet up with Joy. We then got a train to Reading (why I didn't meet her in Reading I dunno since the train back went through there anyway. My planning skills...just I don't know) where we picked up the car. I was mega scared to be driving and had my fair share of mini heart attacks the first day. This country has way too many roundabouts, by the way. And roads that are far too narrow.

Anyway, we started off by going to Jane Austen's house in Chawton. It was a nice house.

After that, we went to Stonehenge. I was way excited about it. As excited as I could be while simultaneously trying not to drive us into a ditch or something. We spent an hour or so wandering around Stonehenge, listening to the audioguides, and taking pictures.

Once we left Stonehenge, we stopped on our way through Salisbury to see the cathedral there. Then we made our way to our Exeter hostel for the night.

Day 2: We drove for quite a while then stopped in a little fishing village called Looe to have lunch and take a little break. 

Making friends with Nelson the Seal...

Lunch: Smoked salmon and prawn salad

And sticky toffee pudding for dessert! I think they
put Pop Rocks in it cause it was crackling.

After lunch in Looe, we drove on to St. Michael's Mount, our first castle of the journey! It was on a little island a bit away from the shore. In high tide, you have to get a boat over (as we had to on the way over). On the way back it was low tide though, and there was a pathway that you can walk between the island and the shore in low tide. Pretty cool.

I'm so strong!

Sweet dining room, yo

Replica of the castle made entirely of corks

We walked back on the path!

We drove to Land's End next so we could watch the sunset over the Atlantic Ocean, which is pretty cool!

We stayed the night in Penzance (Pirates of Penzance, woot!).

Day 3: We went to Tintagel Castle, the "legendary birthplace of King Arthur". I was excited like whoa about some King Arthur. It was situated on two hills. It used to be connected between the two but the bit in the middle fell ages upon ages ago. There were some ruins that date back even before the castle ruins on one of the hills. So it's a pretty old place.

Steep stairs! This is the part where it would have been connected but fell in the middle.

Hanging out on cliffs. As you do.

This was the part where we were meant to go to Dunster Castle next, but they decided they were too good to be open at normal times so we just went to Boscastle instead. We walked on some paths and hung out on more cliffs. Then it was adventures in finding the Minehead hostel. It was hidden and up a mountain with a ridiculously unsafely small parking area. I don't even want to go into all my issues with that place. Anyway, the next day we just headed back to Reading and then it was back to London.

Bonus! Here's some pictures of how small the roads were:

Crazy, right? And these are supposed to function as 2-way roads. Um...how?

Stay tuned for posts about the Diamond Jubilee and my birthday.

Until next time,

Duchess