We used our Britrail passes to the max today, sitting in seven different trains and travelling from 7am till 10pm. The weather was fine and cool again and we spent a lot of time looking out of the window at the Welsh/English/Cornish countryside from first class seats.
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| BEST WAY TO TRAVEL ON LAND |
We have found it quite easy to plan a trip. It can be done on the internet, but if we go to the ticket office at any station and tell them times and places they print out a complete set of instructions and if we plan ahead we can get reservation tickets as well. On the way to Penzance we change at Bristol and Newton Abbot. On the way back we changed at Taunton and Bristol. The trains crossed some very high viaducts and went through a long tunnel under the mouth of the Severn River. Watching the houses, all the same and row upon row, that song about "little boxes" came to mind. Penzance was a lovely little seaside town and we agreed it was worth the effort to get there for a day, but the man in the Information Office seemed insulted that we were only going to spend three hours there. We strolled along the waterfront, up the main shopping street, through two lovely gardens and had a Cornish Pasty for lunch in the cheapest cafe we could find. We looked at a lot of pubs with expensive menus including ones that boasted history back to Nelson and Drake.
As we walked along the waterfront we saw this vessel passing through the harbour entrance presumably on its wat to the Isles of Scilly.
There did not seem to be much of a pirate theme associated with the town but we did notice this ship/shop.
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| LOOK AT THE SIGN ON THE MAST |
A major feature of the town was a church on an island in the bay called St Michael's Mount which is probably very well known but was new to us.
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| THIS IS AS CLOSE AS WE GOT IN THE SHORT TIME WE HAD |
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