St. Ives & West Cornwall

We headed down to Cornwall for a long weekend and a chance to explore SW England. It only took us 4 hours to drive to our hotel in Truro Thursday night (although it should've taken 5 hours). On Friday, we woke up to a foggy day with the clouds hanging around all day. We started the day at St. Ives - a gorgeous English harbor town.


Cornwall is known as the birthplace of pasties -- here's a traditional pasty place piling the meat, vegetables, potatoes, onions into the pastry shells.



St. Ives is fishing village with lots of cobblestone streets to wander down.



And a harbor where you can take boats out to see the seals.












Cornwall is also known for its clotted cream which can be found in Cornwall clotted cream ice cream (made with butter and double cream) or in a traditional cream tea - scones with clotted cream and jam.


And some great surfing beaches!


After St. Ives, we headed South (West?) to Land's End. See Mike at the First AND Last pub in England?



And this is a well-known sign where you can put your town and the mileage from Land's End in the sign and a guy will take your picture for 9.50 GBP! Which is why I'm on the outside of the fence with someone else's town on the sign. :)


Setten Cove - a beach by Land's End.


And down south there are lots of cyder farms that make some Scrumpy!


On the way to Penzance (unfortunately, we didn't see any pirates), we stopped at the Minack Theatre which is built into the rock cliffs. Obviously this is a picture of a picture, but you get the idea.


This is the beach next to the Minack which was beautiful AND we watched 3 dolphin playing in the harbor.


St. Michael's Mound (outside Penzance) where you can walk to the mound in low tide, but have to take a boat in high tide. Then we drove back to Truro (and heard Britain's Mark Cavendish won his 4th stage in the Tour de France - 3 stages is a British record!)