Day 9 - Pentewan to Black Head - 7 miles, 3 hours
What a difference a week makes. As you can see from the photos, I had my first taste of spring with a cheeky little trek from Pentewan to Black Head en route to Porthpean. I didn't encounter many other walkers and that might be because of all the steps on the way. I think I'll do this route more often nearer the trek as there are plenty of steep inclines / declines to tackle. My right boot is still digging in over the ankle (groan not the boots again I hear you cry). I'm telling you they've got to be right! You really can't beat the scenery on a sunny day of the Cornish coast - almost mediterranean azure seas, beautiful deserted coves - don't tell everyone! Just get out there and try it for yourselves...thanks to Simon for looking after Oscar. He must have enjoyed himself as when I pitched up to 'rescue' him he cried out. "I don't want to go - I don't like Daddy!!'' Nice one Osc.
Interesting fact:
Read all about the local Cornish poet/historian A L Rowse depicted on the memorial stone pictured above, here:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/511146/AL-Rowse
This
review is from: A Cornish Childhood: Autobiography of a Cornishman
(Paperback)
This is a highly readable recollection of the author's
childhood and youth in Tregonissey by St. Austell from 1903 to about 1940. It is
well structured and intelligently written, recounting the delights as well as
the limitations of life in a Cornish village but also the sobering and sometimes
tragic effects of two World Wars on the local population. In the latter part of
the book the writer describes his own intellectual development and his
acquaintance with various well-known figures of the time. Most fascinating - I
didn't want the book to end! Thought for the day:
We can't change that life always changes, but we can learn to change with it. You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf them!
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