Does anyone know Cornwall
Mar. 21st, 2005 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackHow crazy would it be, over one of the May bank holidays, to walk around the end of Cornwall from Penzance to St Ives?
It looks about 60km, so doing it over two days breaking at Lands End YHA should be possible, unless the terrain is hopelessly rough. I'm imagining it'll be like the cliffs at Whitby, so a fair amount of up and down where rivers come in, but not difficult underfoot. If anyone's been there and knows that I'll need disabusing and that consecutive 30km days over such territory would tire Hercules, or that May in Cornwall is noted for its cataclysmic downpours / plagues of carnivorous ladybirds, please tell me before I generate a Nicoll Moment.
The other obvious trip from Penzance is to the Scilly Isles; there are probably people who've tried both means of transport here, is going by helicopter likely to be enough more fun than going by tiny propeller plane to be worth paying £150 rather than £90 for the return trip?
In fact, is anyone reading this also mad enough to want to spend a perfectly good bank holiday in tiring walks, with me, around large, attractive lumps of granite surrounded by cold, attractive seas, at the region the Phoenicians probably thought to be the thankfully staniferous far end of the Earth?
It looks about 60km, so doing it over two days breaking at Lands End YHA should be possible, unless the terrain is hopelessly rough. I'm imagining it'll be like the cliffs at Whitby, so a fair amount of up and down where rivers come in, but not difficult underfoot. If anyone's been there and knows that I'll need disabusing and that consecutive 30km days over such territory would tire Hercules, or that May in Cornwall is noted for its cataclysmic downpours / plagues of carnivorous ladybirds, please tell me before I generate a Nicoll Moment.
The other obvious trip from Penzance is to the Scilly Isles; there are probably people who've tried both means of transport here, is going by helicopter likely to be enough more fun than going by tiny propeller plane to be worth paying £150 rather than £90 for the return trip?
In fact, is anyone reading this also mad enough to want to spend a perfectly good bank holiday in tiring walks, with me, around large, attractive lumps of granite surrounded by cold, attractive seas, at the region the Phoenicians probably thought to be the thankfully staniferous far end of the Earth?
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Date: 2005-03-21 11:12 pm (UTC)