Mike has a nephew, Peter, living in Mullion Cove. Communication failed us here and we didn't meet with Peter, but we did meet Carol and Alan who live opposite the chip shop.
Then on to Cadgwith, a very picturesque village not far from Lizard Point, where we had a really good lunch at The Old Cellars.
Can't resist taking photos of all the odd houses we find who seem to have been there forever.
Cadgwith - the quintessential Cornish village
If only she could talk!
Lizard Point
Lizard Point (from Cornish an Lysardh, meaning "the high court") in Cornwall is at the southern tip of the Lizard Peninsula. It is situated half-a-mile (800 m) south of Lizard village in the civil parish of Landewednack and about 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Helston.
Lizard Point is the most southerly point on mainland Great Britain at 49° 57' 30" N. With the exception of parts of the Isles of Scilly it is the southernmost part of England.
Many visitors arrive at the Minack imagining it was built by invading Romans. If Caesar's legions had come this far they might have been beguiled by the beauty of the place, but the real truth is as remarkable as this enduring fiction.
"Minack" in Cornish means a rocky place and the black headed crag below the theatre has always drawn local fishermen. Until the 1930’s they had the gorse filled gully to themselves and the cliffs echoed to the cries of gulls not actors.
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From 1931 until she died in 1983 the Minack Theatre was planned, built and financed by one determined woman - Rowena Cade. |
This isn't Rowena Cade but Jill from The Bronx, New York! She and her husband have lovingly tended the plants that grow in this difficult place. In the winter of 2014, they lost a lot of plants but here in June, you would never know it.
Hard to imagine a more difficult place to grow a garden as this rock, battered by wind and waves. 
Rome would have been proud!
And now to Mousehole...
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