The famous mermaid at Zennor Church



Chun Quoit



The most photographed object in Cornwall.

Those are great, I haven't been to Cornwall for about 15 years, didn't know about all the megaliths and stuff there...

Yes indeed.

Cop a load of this amazing archaeological find:

And if you hold it up to your ear....

Cheers Davey B - I love pictures of that kind of stuff, did you do any more?

Surely the most photographed object?

it's very phallic and sexual, isn't it?


I suddenly had a flashback to more 'flusher' times and thought, hmm could go to Cornwall soon and take pics, then remembered it costs money :rolleyes: :D

an incentive to work hard and prosper i guess... :devil2:

She had a bad case of piles, clearly

I saw something similar on the Antiques Road Show a few years ago. Give them a call Zoot – it could be worth something.

Some pictures of less well known sights in cornwall will follow. But not today.
Did you know that the internet cafes charge £3.60 an hour down here. :(

Have you been to Botallack. Lovely.

I bought a medium size steak pastie yesterday at St Just. They are valued at £2.05 and are very delicious. :)

Is it worth a visit? I've not heard of Botallack. (consults google).

On the coast a few miles from St Just. Old Tin Mine

http://www.viewsofcornwall.com/viewphoto/1370/

That's just gone on our list of places to visit.

Thanks R.M. :)

No problem.

It'll look particularly lovely in the sunshine, so perhaps tomorrow would be better than today.

Today in West Penwith is very grey and drizzly. Definitely a day for Galleries, Museums, Tea Shoppes and maybe later.... :beer: .

are you trying to suggest it was a monument to anal sex? :o

Seriously tho, cave paintings, white men on hills, were sexual by nature, who's to say this monument isn't. It seemed so to me.

:lol:

no.

Somewhere I think off the road between St Ives and Zennor (it was over 20 years ago when I was there) there is a narrow track that goes past a small cottage where Barry Humphries once stayed (he had to be airlifted from somewhere near when he got injured by falling) and then goes into a small wood and kind of loses itself. Somewhere down there is a wooden sign reading "Wicca" and in the wood are the remains of several cottages - a small village. It could have been in an EF Benson or HP Lovecraft story. I found it strange and romantic more than creepy, though.

Good pics, by the way.

I call this one Quoit Before The Storm (gedditt?) ^_^



I was quite moved by this scruffy statue of the Virgin Mary in Sennen Church. It was recovered from a wall niche three hundred years ago. The guidebook says "It's just as well to blame the roundheads for the damage". It was given a new head and baby jesus (modelled from clay in recent years). My insensitive use of flash set on full blast adds to the strangeness of this tiny figure. :girl2:



Not sure why this is lying down. Photobucket is misbehaving today. :angry:

fixed it. B)

Thanks Aubrey. We might have a look at Wicca next time we're down that way. :)

(On edit next day) We have a brilliant book called Journey to the Stones which has lots of country walks to interesting stone circles etc in it. It shows a walk that goes through Wicca via about twenty old stiles. We'll definitely be going there on the next sunny day we get. :thumbsup:

Hippies at Boscawen Un stone circle. You could tell they were hippies because they were smoking dope and they called me "Man".



The Fogou at Carn Euny

i like that top one! very spooky, very reminiscent of some places in ireland as well

not that the purple trousers would have given it away...

That's known as The Coffin Path. If you walk down there from Zennor, heading for St. Ives, you can turn left towards the sea (I think that's at Wicca) and then come back to Zennor along the cliffs. Bugger - if I hadn't split up with my missus we'd have been staying near there right now :( Go to The Gurnard's Head for lunch or dinner if you get the chance - it's ace.

Thanks, Davey and Shrander. I wasn't starting to think I'd imagined it, but I hadn't been able to find it on maps, and I'd never been back there either (probably never will, now). Anyway, it's nice to have it confirmed.

(We stayed in the cottage that B Humphries stayed in. It was owned by the family of the bloke with us, and his dad was a school friend of Humphries'. We played a lot of Cheat (three boys - me, my brother and the Australian bloke: and Vlad, my dog, who guarded the cottage from her flower bed bed on top of the wall), I read a fair bit of Georges Simenon, we had long walks along the cliffs (with seals following us in the water) and smoked a lot of fags. A good holiday.)

It seems that most people who visit Cornwall (even the ones who just sit on St Ives beach all day) have very fond memories of it and plan to return one day. I think they want to recapture an undefinable something (a feeling?) which is peculiar to this place. I love cornwall very much. :wub:

Choone Cross



This is one of a pair of stones called The Pipers you can just see the other Piper in the next field. I think these are the tallest standing stones in Cornwall.

Did you visit Botallack?

Not yet. I'll post a picture or two when we do. :)

Did the bloke with his back to us have a little drum with him?

That's right:
1. They were smoking dope
2. One of them called me "Man"
3. Purple Trousers
4. One of them was playing the bongoes

HIPPIES! :girly:

I bet they all work in I.T. during the week though. <_<

I think it's a bloke I know called Ken :lol:

He introduced me to the Butthole Surfers :applaud:

He doesn't work in IT, or indeed in anything.

I think you'll find he's called Astral Child these days. <_<

Yes. We walked there yesterday from St Just and had a really good day. Photo's will follow at some stage. Thanks for suggesting it SnowMarmot. :)

Here they are finally. It was a bit of a dull day for photography though.

Davey, do you live in Cornwall or are you just on a very long holiday? :unsure:

Hello I live in Cornwall aswell!