Summer weekend in Cornwall, UK
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For the whole week I was wondering where I was going to be for the bank holiday weekend. I didn't want to stay in London. I wanted to explore. The weather during the week at work felt miserable and I just wanted to get out from the city. I proposed the idea to my friend Aymeric. Soon, his girlfriend Emilie started to show interests and when we were at Aymeric's house party the weekend before, Gary told me he was good to drive anywhere for the weekend. I remember struggling to get a consensus from everyone during the week and until Thursday 24th 11pm, we still didn't book a place to stay. When I came back home that night from bouldering, I looked at my messages and see them all waking up: "hey guys, are we going tomorrow or not?". So I jumped on the laptop and booked a hostel for the next night. We took the road from London to Cornwall after work and we arrived in Newquay around 1:30am. The next day we woke up and headed to Falmouth to visit Pendennis Castle. This artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII is really interesting because it doesn't just show the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, but also how it was used to protect the coast from the Germans during the WW2. After the visit, we headed to Gylly Beach cafe to get brunch. Then we drove to Lizard point which is at the southern tip of the Lizard Peninsula. It is situated half-a-mile south of Lizard village in the civil parish of Landewednack. The colour of the coast was beautiful, this is the part you see the cows in the video. After walking along the coast, we headed to Kynance Beach where we first tried to put our feet into the fresh water. Very fresh! When the sun started to set, we head back to Newquay and stopped near St Agnes, more specifically at the Chapel Porth beach and we walked up to find Towanroath shaft pumping engine ruins, part of the Wheal Coates, a former tin mine. We enjoyed a last-minute picnic while watching the sunset. When we woke up the day after, we headed to St Michael's mount. Which looks like a miniature version of the French monument in Brittany that has the same name. Aymeric comes from Brittany and was really amazed about the replica. When we arrived Marazion, we had brunch at this very nice Chapel Rock cafe. We found a free table upstairs that had an amazing view of St Michael mount. After eating, the tide made the sea level going enough down for us to cross to go visit St Michael's mount. Later we headed our way to Porthcurno to Visit the Minack theater, an open-air theatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea. Unfortunately, I didn't put any footage from it in my video, I didn't think it was safe to take my drone out there anyway and the GoPro videos from it are full of tourists. The beaches nearby, Porthcurno beach, looked incredible, like paradise in the UK. Although it was a bit crowded and I had in mind another beach nearby much less known by tourist. Although I didn't know if it was accessible, the group followed my lead and we started to walk on a path, after walking for a little bit, we started to hear the sound of waves and very soon, a beautiful small and almost empty beach was in front of us. There we swam for maybe 45min. Don't get me wrong, the water was freezing, but the waves were so much fun. Aymeric and I were doing body surfing. I really wish I had a bodyboard though... After the swim and some tanning made in the UK, we drove to Land's end, the most westerly point of mainland Cornwall and England. We started to get some sunset feeling there, but we decided to drive to Goderevy lighthouse for our last sunset in Cornwall. And it was worth it. That was our last minute weekend road trip in Cornwall. Tell me what you think of it, what you life and dislike in this video. Ask me anything about our trip. If you're planning on going to Cornwall for a weekend, the text above should help you to get a starting point on where to go and what to visit. I hope you like the video.