Fri, 15 Nov 2002

author Tim	location Cury, Helston, Cornwall, England
posted 18:09 GMT	section Europe2002/Europe/UK/England/South England/South England 1 ( all photos )

Down at the other end ( 11 photos )
It doesn't seem like long at all since we were up at John O'Groats - the far North-East corner of the British mainland. Today, we're near Land's End.
This morning saw us drive down to Land's End, which is the most South-West point of the mainland, and famous for the fact that people attempt the Land's End to John O'Groats journey in the silliest ways possible. Walking backwards, riding unicycles, in old cars, etc.
A quick stop on the way was in Penzance, which suprised us in not really being all that interesting. We stocked up on some medicine, junk food and the Lord of the Rings DVDs.
Land's End has been turned into a tourist Mecca (hardly suprising, since the same company owns both this and the similar bunch of self-appointed "attractions" at John O'Groats). A significant place, but otherwise just another piece of land that we had to pay £2 just to park at.
We spent the afternoon at another old friend of Margaret's, Lindsay, who lives in a tiny village called Mawnan. They bought an old sheep barn from a farmer and proceeded to turn it into a fantastic house, something we all admired quite a lot. Could happily settle down in a place like that somewhere in the far future.

Tomorrow we start the scenic route North to Carlisle. There's quite a few plans in place for possible places to stop at.

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