We did manage to get away for a few days in Cornwall. The weather wasn’t marvellous, but it was just nice to get away and try and do something that resembled normality. That was when we walked along the coast from Pendeen to St Just – a coastal walk I love, as you may recall …
This has just got to be one of my most favourite places, not just in Cornwall, but anywhere! I used to cycle out here from Penzance as a boy and just marvel at the scale of human endeavour and hardship that led to the construction of the The Crown Engine Houses at Botallack. The rugged …
This is one of my very favourite places. As an early teenager living in Cornwall and interested in geology, I would often take off on my bike and wander around the spoil heaps and the cliffs around Botallack Mine looking for pieces of cassiterite, galena, pyrites and copper pyrites. I would spend the whole day …