A very important region of this journey was of course Cornwall!
Sabine was there on her own for four weeks in 2014 - I joined later. In 2016 she got to know Dave who by now is 85 years old.
Dave is very interested in nature, especially in flowers and also birds. He is one of the "preservers" of the very special corish bird, the Chough (for my Swiss collegues: a special form of the Alpendohle). And he is a very good photographer! Besides of this, Dave knows more or less everything on geology, especially the Corinsh Geology. Dave is a very interesting man! We are since 2016 in regular E-mail and also WhatsApp contact with him.
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The AirBnB accommodation that we had pre-booked, was called: "Tiny barn, a former piggery"
yes, it was tiny, but we soon got to love it and would go there with pleasure again!
Our tiny home
The inside
And here already the very special and for us important Michaels Mount (a counterpart of the Mont Saint Michel, that we visited last year in Britanny - Bretagne)
Here he is! Our friend Dave, taking us for the next days to a number of great walks!
The very well known Costal Path of Cornwall
There are a number of old copper, tin, phosphor and other mines, which are preserved by National Trust
THE Cornish speciality: Cornish Pasty, filled with beef; vegetable; chicken and so on
It seems, that I liked it!
One of Daves most liked flowers: the very rare Bee Orchid
Lots of nature and flowers in different Churchyards
Sabine and I went on our own to Truro, the Capitol of Cornwall
On our way back to Penzance, we went by at this lovely beach (but did not go into the sea)
Typical road in Cornwall! Just as well, we did not go there with our Mobile Home!
The Prosper Wheal mine
Typical pose of Dave!
Another Cornish Pasty!
Bessy's Cove, a smugglars cache
One day, Sabine and I went to the St. Michaels Mount
There is a path over to the island, but the path is only walkable at low tide. We were there just in time...
Those visitors got wet feet!
The castle up on the Mount
At high tide, there are boats to bring the visitors back to the shore
In the evening we brought a pizza from Domino's to Daves home
Enjoying the pizza!
Intense discussion over Dave's smartphone
Morrab Gardens in Penzance, very nice!
One more walk (potter, as he calles it) with Dave to a very old Holy Well
And another Mine
A last breakfast in our tiny house before we drive back to Bristol
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