England II

(English, Cornish, German, Italian, French, Spanish)

From Oxford we took the train to Bath where we spent the next night.  Bath was a very touristy town, but nice nonetheless.  There was a fantastically old Cathedral, and typical big city things.  One cool thing was that we got to see Stonehenge.  Stonehenge is a short bus-ride outside of Bath.

From Bath we took a train to Exeter where all we did was sleep, and then took off in the morning to go to Penzance in Cornwall.  I was looking forward to this as the Annear's are Cornish.  I found the old country to be a bit touristy in places, but where isn't?  It was beautiful even though I felt like an outsider.  The main thing that we did was go to Land's End (or Penn an Wlas in Cornish) where there was plenty of hiking along the coast.  It's also the most westerly point of England, and there were plenty of cheesey signs saying first/last whatever of England.  This picture is the western bank of the Tamar river, the border of Cornwall.

Now I'll just show a bunch of pictures from Land's End and the trip there.

We stayed at a bed and breakfast that night (there was almost nothing available! YMCA and Hostel were booked), and had a wonderful breakfast the next (rainy) morning before heading over to St. Michael's Mount, where there is a castle owned by and home of the St. Aubyn family.  It was a very misty/rainy/celtic feeling morning.