Although not one canny enough to find 4 or 5 photographs of Cornish landmarks lit by sunshine
Or maybe it was too much trouble to collage the pics with the light falling the same way, so they picked only shots of cornwall photographed in flattering gray light. And what’s with the giant silver footballs? Is there some kinda connection with The Prisoner?
This is just plain scilly, of course they have sunshine in Cornwall, heck they grow palms in Cornwall. Of course the picture is of a giant dracena not a real palm so obviously they aren’t very bright in Cornwall.
'Cos here in the UK they are instantly recognisable to just about everyone. I’ll admit it’s not the best shot of them though.
And Britain being Britain (and Cornwall, sadly, being bottom of the list) they won’t have much money to make a proper website and afford decent shots. I love Cornwall though. Beautiful countryside, some excellent beer from great little micro breweris. Excellent scuba diving down that way as well.
I think the pictures are very nice. Cornwall looks peaceful and . . . pleasantly cool. Which would be somewhere I’d rather be in August!! Dr. Seuss palms and all . . . cute!
Nice castle, too. Nothing like that here, you know.
Cornwall is gorgeous. My heart popped each time I visited. Lush green, old trees, driving through tunnels of green, coves with little beaches and seacaves, swimming in warm water (compared to Scotland!).
Funnily, the thread starts with a “Riviera” pic of a crowded beach!
Looking at all those photos I am aching to be there again, especially the area around Helford River… Not surprising perhaps, since a freezing easterly gale is blowing with driving rain and snow outside, and my stove is having a hard time and I am in danger of running out of firewood. It’s been a long cold winter here. But we got some palm trees too (they really suffered this winter)!
A handsome place. And the Purple Loosestrife probably isn’t even invasive there! People got so excited in the 80s about it destroying our wetlands in Ontario and Quebec that I recoiled, slightly, upon seeing it. Although yours might be an ornamental variety; the individual blooms look like they might be a little larger than the wild variety.
Is that the bit you live in?
OK, I’ll settle for ‘near’. The beard and the twinkle are right, but I suspect you’re a bit big for a dolmen. However scenic. And is the actual Doom Bar (the ale’s namesake) in one of these pics? I seem to recall that it’s just off one of the local anchorages, isn’t it?
Purple loosestrife is abundant in damp places in Cornwall. Its pollen turns up in UK peat deposits dating from shortly after the last retreat of the ice-sheets. Foxgloves are glorious in early summer. The first two pictures were taken on the Lizard peninsula. The church (St Enodoc’s, where John Betjeman is buried) overlooks the Camel estuary in the distance, which does indeed contain the notorious Doom Bar, a sandbank visible only at very low tides which has scuppered many a boat. The cluster of rocks overlooking the sea, looking towards Tintagel, is on the Rumps hillfort at Pentire Head and it’s the spot where I’ve told everyone that I must one day be returned to stardust. The pic of the lighthouse was taken on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly (that’s my sister and her partner in the pic). The neolithic dolmen is Chun Quoit in western Cornwall. That’s the missus in the photo! The Cromwellian castle is on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, looking across to Bryher.
