There and Back

Just two or three days left on this amazing coast. So onto Mowenstow beach and then the Church of St Morwenna and St John the Baptist. But first the beach. One of my abiding memories of the beach here, is the waterfall over the cliff edge onto the beach. The first image is from the top of the cliff, and then from beach level. Then a couple of images of general beach views - left and right. There are many rocks on the beach here and it is interesting to se the wave breaking around them as it receds. The church of St Morwenna and St John The Baptist Having not heard of St Morwenna, I looked in the guide book and also online. Online , the story is: Morwenna first appears in a 12th-century life of Saint Nectan that lists her alongside Endelient, Mabyn and Menfre (among many others) as a daughter of the Welsh king Brychan. She was trained in Ireland before crossing over to Cornwall. Morwenna made her home in a little hermitage at Hennacliff (the Raven's Crag), afterwards called Morwenst...

The home we booked for this holiday was larger than we needed, but the photos and reviews swayed our decision - we were not dissapointed! It was brilliant, possible one of the best we have stayed in. A couple of images of Tidewood, our holiday home A view from the balcony  - just fancy looking at that all the time! A slightly zoomed image showing the Old Smithy, the lovely thatched inn which was our nearest neighbour, with the sea behind it. On the wall of the local, the Old Smithy, was this Victorian post box. Not too many of those about now. So now that we are here, where shall we go today? - Bude! Like most of these places, we had visited here before, but we hadn`t walked along the beach in the direction we did today. It was interesting, as the rock formations on the beach and the cliffs behind, give another dimention to the normal Bude image of loads of sunbathers and surfers. There were however a lot of surfers today as there was a competion on, but fewer people sunbathing. T...

When the town of Glastonbury crops up in a conversation then the first thing that springs to mind is the famous music festival. However, there are other intersting things about the area - one being the TOR. Having now been into the town, one has to ask "is it held actually in Glastonury?" and the answer is "No, the Glastonbury Festival is not actually in the town of Glastonbury. It's held on Worthy Farm in Pilton, a village about 7 miles (13 km) east of Glastonbury" However, our daughter wanted to see and climb the Tor, which is what we did. She has been to the festival with her brother many moons ago! Here are my daughter, wife and grandaughter posing at the bottom of the Tor, poised and ready to go. Daughter and grandaughter, part way up, looking down to the start. .... and the town of Glatonbury when we were part way up. We had a good climb to the top and all enjoyed it. After a walk around the Tor we headed down. The 13th-century tower which forms a landmark...